Summary #1 Great Expectations: Introduction

In the opening chapter we are introduced to Pip who seems to have suffered a great loss of almost all of his immediate family accept for his sister. He is in the care of his sister and her husband. Pip has a strange encounter with a ragged and frightening man who threatens him with brutal death if he doesn't bring him the supplies he asked for by the next day. Pip is naïve and believes this scary man and returns home with the intentions to keep this a secret and meet with the man again.