Joe and Pip
...Joe as more of a companion than his father figure. Joe has taken care of Pip and has always cared for him. He does this by telling Pip how he has always been important to him. Joe had “offered to your sister to keep company, and to be asked in church, at such times as she was willing and ready to come to the forge, I said to her, ‘And bring the poor little child. God bless the poor little child,’ I said to your sister, ‘there’s always room for him at the forge!”(Dickens 57) Pip is very touched by what Joe has told him. Pip expresses these feelings for Joe, and how Joe is somewhat a role model to him after Joe tells Pip the story of how him and his sister, Mrs. Joe, came to live at the forge. Pip expresses “…a new admiration of Joe from that night. We were equals afterwards, as we had ...