He was awfully cold, to be sure. I half expected to see him drop down before my face and die of deadly cold. His eyes looked so awfully hungry too, that when I handed him the file and he laid it down on the grass, it occurred to me he would have tried to eat it, if he had not seen my bundle.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 3. The child Pip shows a very caring, sympathetic and generous side to his character in the way he helps the desperate Magwitch. On Christmas morning he brings the cold and starving convict a bundle of much welcomed food and file to free himself from his leg iron. Rather than think about himself, Pip thinks about the needs of another. Later in the story he will generously help Herbert financially to set himself up in a career.