The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

Pi Patel grew up in Pondicherry, a city in India, where his dad owns a zoo. One day, Pi’s father decides that he wanted to move to Canada. They take a ship to Canada with all of the animals from the zoo on board. On their way to Canada, the ship crashes and sinks. Pi manages to get on a lifeboat with a few animals: a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra and a tiger. The animals begin to kill each other until there is no one left except for the tiger and Pi. Pi, stranded in the middle of the ocean with a…

Life of Pi The movie Life of Pi starts when Pi goes to school and was bullied because his name was Piscine. Later on he changed his name to Pi because of his love for math. Pi believes that religion and science should become one subject because of his belief that both happened. He believes in three religions Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism because he believes they all lead to one outcome. Not many respect that he believes in three religions. However, his parents do even though they don’t…

Winston Churchill once said “when you’re going through hell, keep going”. And that is exactly what Pi Patel did in The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. Pi, an Indian boy on a voyage with his family, survived the sinking of the Tsunami along with a Bengal tiger. He spent 227 long days out at sea facing many different obstacles. Throughout the story, Martel portrays the life lesson of never giving up by throwing different challenges at Pi and testing his will to survive. These obstacles prove how Pi…

A 16 year-old male named Pi Patel faced a tragic event after losing his family in a sinking ship, while heading to Canada to start a new life and sell their animals from their past lives of zookeepers. Pi Patel is shipwrecked for 227 in a lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutang and a Bengal Tiger. He faces a number of challenges on this unforgettable journey including violence and fear, and discovering his true identity, but with all the challenges Pi Patel survives all odds. In another…

Piscine Molitor is a very diverse character featured in the novel “Life of Pi”, his character is very complex and is more than meets the eye. A person’s personality is a combination of characteristics and qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character. Different situations bring out a variety of different parts from someone’s personality. Many different aspects of Pi come to life throughout the book that allow the chance to understand him at a deeper level. In the novel “Life of Pi”…

The state of well-being is an arbitrary condition. Though society has and continues to wrap a thin security blanket around citizens’ shoulders, it disguises the fact that welfare can easily be swept away in the span of a second by numerous culprits. Therefore, the inner compass to seek survival is not optional, but rather essential to every self-reliant man’s survival. Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi, stresses this notion through the account of Pi Patel and his brutally desperate survival tactics…

Throughout history, many people have achieved success with the assistance from a strong belief and a source of encouragement. The belief in something or someone has become a necessity in attaining success or in overcoming great difficulties. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi and Tim Burton’s Big Fish, this is evident as each main character depend on the faith of an eternal source, the self-confidence in oneself and the inspiration and assistance of a guide in order to succeed. The faith in an eternal…

Chaos erupts the moment the Tsimtsum capsizes into the turbulent waves of the stormy Pacific Ocean. Pi watches powerlessly from a lifeboat as his life sinks/ family disappears in front of his eyes. Pi soon discovers he is not the only one on the lifeboat. He learns he must share his lifeboat with an orangutan, hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, and a Bengal tiger, named Richard Parker. The hyena dispatches the zebra and the orangutan. Consequently, Richard Parker kills the hyena. After the…

What ideas about Survival are represented in ‘Lion’? By isaac Molloy Survival is the ability to live or exist and face new challenges. Lion represents survival by trusting your instincts, adapting to surroundings and considering all options and think of innovative ideas.The author of Lion is Saroo Brierley written in 2013.The story is about a young boy who gets’s lost in Calcutta, then he is adopted by an Australian family then when he is an adult he finds his way home to meet his birth…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to crash land in the ocean well I have. This is the story of how me and my friends survived a plane crash a killer shark and a deserted island. All we wanted to do was help build houses. It all started out like any other day I woke up got dressed and got my coffee and went to school. When I got to home room I sat down and that is wen mrs.alexander announced that we were go to north africa to help build houses she said that there had been a tsunami.…