Pip's Childhood Personality

"...I felt fearfully sensible of the great convenience that the Hulks were handy for me. I was clearly on my way there. I had begun by asking questions, and I was going to rob Mrs. Joe" [Dickens, Great Expectations]

By the quote given above, Pip is clearly a very paranoid character. He's thinks he's gonna be a convict one day because of the small evil deed of stealing food from his sister. And even more to the point, the reason he's stealing the food is because he thinks that another convict, who was made up by the first convict, is going to kill him if he doesn't. A cleaver person could get Pip to do anything he wanted with fear. In fact, his sister does by using her cane, "tickler" to beat him when he does something wrong. And because of this fear, Pip is always trying to stay out of trouble because he thinks his sister will find out about every bad deed he does. The only reason that Pip went against his sister for the convict was because he feared the convict much more than his sister. Pip is clearly very paranoid.