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Well, if you think about it, both of them were technically orphans because both their parents had died. Also, they both made a dynamic change throughout the book because of death. Pony had to watch Johnny & Dally die before he changed from innocence to experience. Magwitch had to die in Great Expectations for Pip to become mature.

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I know quite a few possible similarities.

Pip's apprenticeship with Joe in the forge is symbolizing Charle's early job in Warren's Blacking Factory. This upset Dickens very much, and he was forced to be seperated from his family. This event followed him for the rest of his life.

They both had very difficult times growing up. Dickens also had many financial issues just like Pip, and lived in poverty. The financial issues is what sent him to work at age 12, and his father to jail. The father in jail might have some relations to the convict Pip meets, Magwitch.

Pip and Dickens also had troubles with their love lives.

Pip can also be seen (in the end), as someone Charles Dickens wants to be. Pip in the end accepts his state in life, on social class and financially, and becomes happy for once. Not having such Great Expectations, which seemed to be pulling him down. Charles Dickens however, could never let go. The book's moral is that money and social class does not truly matter, and will not truly make you happy.

I'm sure there could be even more similarities, if only I knew more about his entire life.

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