Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Whose tombtones is Pip examining when he encounters his convict?

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Pip is examining his parent's tombstones when he encounters the convict for the first time.

I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister,—Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.

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Great Expectations