There’s More to Life Than Just The Physical One moment can change a person’s life forever, whether it is something seemingly simple or disastrous. In the book which was created into a film, “Life of Pi,” by Yann Martel, and later directed by Ang Lee, the moment that changes an adolescent boy’s life begins when his father decides to move the family zoo across the Pacific Ocean from Pondicherry India to Canada. The Tsimtsum, the name of the ship that was carrying Pi, his family, and all of the zoo animals sunk in the middle of the ocean. Being the only human survivor, he ended up on one of the ship’s lifeboats with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena, and a bengal tiger. Stranded in a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific facing extreme hunger,
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He was born into the religion of his family which was Hindu. On vacation in Munnar, India when he was fourteen years old he discovered christianity in a church at the top of a hill. A year following, Pi was walking past the Jamia Masjid, the Great Mosque and was introduced to Islam. Pi’s spiritual journey is arguably the most significant to the story, his development, and even his survival. Without his belief in not just one, but three religions he could have given up hope and died at sea very shortly after the sinking. “The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving” (Martel 209). Not only does Pi continue to believe in God through a time when most would curse him, but it is such a strong bond that he feels it in his heart. With a constant possibility of death for over two-hundred days straight he still feels God’s presence in his heart. Before the sinking of the ship when he was still in India Pi spoke the analogy, “ To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation” (Martel 28), which foreshadows his choice to keep believing even in time of despair. This mindset that he has towards religion before the shipwreck directly relates to his mindset while on the life boat. He continues to believe in all three of his religions and that he will overcome this obstacle and live to tell the tale of surviving the pacific with a bengal
He was born into the religion of his family which was Hindu. On vacation in Munnar, India when he was fourteen years old he discovered christianity in a church at the top of a hill. A year following, Pi was walking past the Jamia Masjid, the Great Mosque and was introduced to Islam. Pi’s spiritual journey is arguably the most significant to the story, his development, and even his survival. Without his belief in not just one, but three religions he could have given up hope and died at sea very shortly after the sinking. “The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving” (Martel 209). Not only does Pi continue to believe in God through a time when most would curse him, but it is such a strong bond that he feels it in his heart. With a constant possibility of death for over two-hundred days straight he still feels God’s presence in his heart. Before the sinking of the ship when he was still in India Pi spoke the analogy, “ To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation” (Martel 28), which foreshadows his choice to keep believing even in time of despair. This mindset that he has towards religion before the shipwreck directly relates to his mindset while on the life boat. He continues to believe in all three of his religions and that he will overcome this obstacle and live to tell the tale of surviving the pacific with a bengal