How Does Magwitch Change During The Course Of The Novel

Great Expectations
Do our views of Magwitch change during the course of the novel?

Great Expectations is about an ordinary, working class boy who suddenly finds himself with a secret benefactor who wants to make him into a rich gentleman. The boy comes to learn some hard lessons in life. In this story Dickens wants us to realise that being rich is not the most important thing in life compared to love and loyalty.

Pip meets a convict in the graveyard where the story starts. The convict scares pip into stealing some food for him, and also a file. Pip goes back to the graveyard to give him the food and the file. The convict scoffs the food down and manages to file his chains off. The next day the army turns up at Pip’s house to ask Joe
He is an escaped convict. He is entered into the story through the quote ‘hold your noise!’ cried a terrible man as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. ‘Keep still you little devil or ill cut your throat’. The convicts name is Magwitch, he is wearing ‘no hat, broken shoes, covered in mud and cut and bruised from flints and thorns’. Also he is wet and shivering which showed that he had been on the marshes a long time from the start. He is presented as a very frightening man who is intimidating Pip so as he can survive. The language Magwitch uses is very coarse language, he certainly doesn’t use proper English; this suggests that he is uneducated, possibly from a very poor background. To Persuade Pip to get him food and a file Magwitch also threatens Pip with a scary sounding ‘Young man’. The Young Man is introduced when Magwitch says- ‘there’s a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am an angel… of getting at a boy, at his heart and his liver… that young man will softly creep and creep his way to him and tear him open’ in this quote Magwitch is saying that if he tells the young man to, he will find Pip, tear him open and then eat his heart and Liver. When Magwitch says this Pip is absolutely terrified, and as soon as he can he runs home without stopping – ‘I looked all round for the horrible young man, and could see no signs of him. But now I was frightened
The prisoners had their hands fastened together by handcuffs and chains fastened to their legs. They were taken to the hulks. The hulks were old ships that did not move. They were moored where the river Thames joined the sea. The hulks were dark, dirty and crowded with men, women and children. After they had been in the hulks for a few months, the convicts were put into ships that took them to Australia or New Zealand, there they worked in mines or on farms and were cruelly treated. They were never allowed to return to England. To get sent to the hulks or deported you only had to do the slightest or crimes because the laws were very strict. One nine-year-old boy was transported to Australia for stealing a