On his first voyage in 1492, when Christopher Columbus set out in search of Asia, he ended up landing in America on a small island in the Caribbean Sea, who confidently thought it was Asia. He then made several other trips to the New World in search of riches, thinking of exploring a land already explored, but he had found the greatest riches of all, an unknown land, America. This shows that when you go on a mission, you face several challenges along the way but in the end you achieve more than you planned to achieve. The novel The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, and the novel Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, both describe two journeys in which the characters gain more as they learn about life, survival, and patience, understanding religion, facing their fears, associating with nature. and meet other characters from whom they learn something. The first is about a young shepherd named Santiago, who has a recurring dream of a treasure in Egypt, for which he embarks on a journey to fulfill his "Personal Legend" with the help of a man who claims to be...