In the Life of Pie by YANN MARTEL the excerpt “DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO?” felt important to the advancement of the plot. I felt that this excerpt mainly told the whole story of the book. In the zoo people wanted to find the most dangerous animal so PI father set up a booth with a curtain. In the booth was a mirror and when people opened the curtain they find out that it was them all along. In the later part of the book Pi was in a heavy predicament. He was pinned in a corner of a lifeboat with a 300 pound Bengal tiger and a hyena. Out of fear the animals did not touch him. The animals knew that if they killed him they would be no source of food because in the zoos that they came from they ate the food provided
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This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt.” Is one of the most important excerpts in the book. When you are in a desperate situation or when times are tough this is proven to be true in the story of the Life of Pi. It was shown when Pi was stuck in the sea with a Bengal tiger. He was hungry but the tiger was guarding the entrance to the food locker. Because hunger overcame his fear he charged the tiger bringing it to the side of the boat with open space. This ability was seen a lot in the book. He used this same ability to train the tiger that this side is my space and the other is his. He used it to try new things such as drinking turtle blood which saved him from dehydration and eat the waste of the tiger which ended up bad for him but calmed his head of his hunger. Madness also protect such as come up to the surface of the boat in a storm which in turn saved his life from the sinking of the boat. In the book these various events happened to Pi were he had to adapt. The conditions he endured shows how Pi has a nature skill to survive and endure. Keeping this statement in mind it demonstrates how PI was able to survive this great ordeal and have a story to back it up …show more content…
I feel that when you have tiger fighting with you to stay alive you would be proud to get out of your situation but this is not the case with PI. He uses the tiger to combat his loneliness as he is often found talking to it as if it was a person and to help him overcome the struggle of death. He also uses the tiger to help pass time by training the tiger to stay in one space. Because Pi wanted to get his story published he had to edit his story. He first told the original unedited story but no one believed him. It is only then when he put himself as the tiger and his parents as the animals they started believing him. But, Pi told them that he was changing his story to make it more believable and then people started to say that the first story was right and that he wasn’t just making it up. So by using the tiger he got his story out and because of the publicity he was able to live because he wanted to fill a void left by his parent’s death. Pi can also thank Richard Parker (the tiger) for showing him animal instinct such as killing and eating raw animals and fish and by using instinct. Pi owed the tiger his survival for that manner and also protection from the raw elements he did not intend to be a part
This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt.” Is one of the most important excerpts in the book. When you are in a desperate situation or when times are tough this is proven to be true in the story of the Life of Pi. It was shown when Pi was stuck in the sea with a Bengal tiger. He was hungry but the tiger was guarding the entrance to the food locker. Because hunger overcame his fear he charged the tiger bringing it to the side of the boat with open space. This ability was seen a lot in the book. He used this same ability to train the tiger that this side is my space and the other is his. He used it to try new things such as drinking turtle blood which saved him from dehydration and eat the waste of the tiger which ended up bad for him but calmed his head of his hunger. Madness also protect such as come up to the surface of the boat in a storm which in turn saved his life from the sinking of the boat. In the book these various events happened to Pi were he had to adapt. The conditions he endured shows how Pi has a nature skill to survive and endure. Keeping this statement in mind it demonstrates how PI was able to survive this great ordeal and have a story to back it up …show more content…
I feel that when you have tiger fighting with you to stay alive you would be proud to get out of your situation but this is not the case with PI. He uses the tiger to combat his loneliness as he is often found talking to it as if it was a person and to help him overcome the struggle of death. He also uses the tiger to help pass time by training the tiger to stay in one space. Because Pi wanted to get his story published he had to edit his story. He first told the original unedited story but no one believed him. It is only then when he put himself as the tiger and his parents as the animals they started believing him. But, Pi told them that he was changing his story to make it more believable and then people started to say that the first story was right and that he wasn’t just making it up. So by using the tiger he got his story out and because of the publicity he was able to live because he wanted to fill a void left by his parent’s death. Pi can also thank Richard Parker (the tiger) for showing him animal instinct such as killing and eating raw animals and fish and by using instinct. Pi owed the tiger his survival for that manner and also protection from the raw elements he did not intend to be a part