Describe Pip's first meeting with the convict and his consequent suffering until he runs away with the food for the convict on the marshes.

When the little boy Pip meets the escaped convict Magwitch he is overwhelmed by fear and guilt.

The first words uttered by the terrified Pip in the novel are:" 'O! Don't cut my throat sir,' I pleaded in terror." Pip has a harrowing time at the hands of the convict who threatens him that if he does'nt bring a file and some  food the next morning, his companion "a young man" will take out his heart and liver. At the end of Ch.2 the adult Pip reminisces about this incident and remarks:"few people know what secrecy......in the secrecy of my terror."

In Ch.2 the little boy Pip describes how guilty ["the guilty knowledge that I was going to rob Mrs.Joe"] he felt that he had to steal from his sister's pantry to supply food for the convict.

Childish fear and guilt are accentuated by the childish imagination of the little boy Pip. When he goes to steal the food from the pantry he imagines that every board was calling after him "Stop thief!"

Surprisingly, Pip is not frightened of his sister. She has been beating him up regularly with "Tickler" so much so that he has become accustomed to her constant abusive nature and is only "repulsed by her at every turn." Ch 2.

His only source of comfort is his sister's husband Joe whom he always regarded "as a larger species of child, and as no more than my equal." But unwittingly Joe gets him in trouble when Pip hides his bread slice in his trousers.