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charles dickens evokes sympathy for his potagonist philip pirrip in a variety of diffrent ways. For starters, the scene is set using a sinister aspect, a gloomy , depressing churchyard were pip recalls visiting his parents and siblings graves,'my first fancies regarding what they look like were unreasonably derived from thier tombstones.' This gives the reader a sense of sorrow for pip as he is explaining he hasnt any memories of his parents then adds,'i never saw my father or my mother,and never saw any likeness of them...' pip is shown in a very sad light and the reader feels sympathy which is the goal dickens had set himself right...? we also learn he had five little brothers , now all he has is their gravestones. this is shocking, even though we have known death was very common is this era , as they didnt have any medical resources or the cures we have found in those days, so childhood death wasnt a surpise because of poor diets , bad medical care and poor housing which only wealthy people could afford i can show this by...'five little brothers of mine-who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle...' dickens makes it very clear that pips brothers were younger then he was by using repittion of the word little to give the tale woe and almost make the reader grief for this small children.