Making Connections

       A few months ago, I read a fascinating novel entitled "Life of Pi" and I found it to be a unique, one of a kind story unlike any other.  After reading almost two-thirds of Great Expectations, I seem to have found these two stories to be so interlaced and so similar that I almost immediately knew the relation after reading a good 30 or so pages.
       Life of Pi starts out a lot like Great Expectations, there are three sections, and in the first, the protagonist, Pi, remembers his childhood and reminisces, talking about the good and the bad events he experienced.  When Pi was born, he was born a Hindu (religion has a huge correlation with Great Expectations and Pip's expectations), but he begins to understand and follow Christianity and Islam as well.  This has a huge relation to Pip and his expectations because him and Pi both want more out of life than they can really get.  Three religions seems like a lot, but Pi benefits from each one, seeing different aspects of life and overall, understanding that God is different in each one.  God is really Pi's expectations.
       Not only is that just a fraction of the book, I found the relevancy of Great Expectations and Life of Pi to be tremendous, and I thought they related to each other so much, because our expectations are always so high for ourselves.  It shows in other books as well, this was just the only book I've read in the past few months.
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