In chapter one of Great Expectations some childhood experiences that Charles Dickens shared were loneliness, fear, and negativity. I believe Pip was a lonely boy who wanted more in life than what he was given. As for the prisoner, he showed fear to Pip and frightened him into doing whatever the prisoner wanted from him in order to avoid being hurt. I am unsure whether Dickens may have experienced any of the exact events in this part of the novel, but I do think that as a child he experienced a lot of abuse and loneliness that lead him to the first chapter of this novel.

 Pip is a young boy that is held responsible for chores, abused by his sister, he shows in the first chapter that his parents are dead but does not seem to know much about them, showing Dickens may not have had much sympathy for the death of his own parents. I believe that many of Dickens life experiences led him to be able to write a novel with strong emotion in it.