Pip's Life At Home

Life at home for Joe is definitely not like the lives we live today. He is just an innocent young boy that doesn't know much about how life works yet; he doesn't know right from wrong. His sister and her husband are definitely very hard on him and get annoyed with every little thing he does, if Pip would ask a question his sister would just tell him to go away, or not speak of that, The time when his sister went out looking for him after he was out in the churchyard, she got very angry. I think this is because she is very protective of him since they are the only ones left of Pip's family. She feels she needs to fill the responsibilty that her mother left her with of caring for Pip. If I were to be gone from home for awhile my mom would definitely come looking for me, but not the way his sister did. She went with a tickler--an abusive tool--so that if she found him he would experience this device. It is against the law now to abuse children, but back then it wasn't. Life was a struggle for little Pip; not being able to have a mom or dad to care for you. All he wanted was a few questions answered, and all he got in return was ignorance and disrespect.