Barbara Gordon

Bryon’s Genius Works (One Message from Each Byron Poem) Lord Byron was a very interesting author, and had good technique in all his writings. Byron had a childhood that might be considered different to some people. According to Malcolm Kelsall, “Byron was not born the heir to a great title or a rich estate.” Growing up as a kid, he never really thought that he would ever be recognized as much as he is today for his work. There were three poems from Lord Byron that were studied during class.…

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BACKGROUND Born on a Bike In 1990, Gary Erickson was on a 175-mile bike ride when he came up with the idea of Clif Bar. After his bike ride, Gary returned home to create a new energy bar superior to the others. After six months baking with his mother, the very first Clif Bar was born. Within a year of finessing the recipe, Gary created the company and named it after his father, Clifford. By 1992, Clif Bar & Company was officially started and committed to growing (“The Journey of CLIF Bar &…

The Theme of Life of Pi Imagine being stranded at sea for seven months with limited supplies and a Bengal Tiger being the only other castaway in the ship. Pi Patel, the protagonist of Life of Pi, has to live with these circumstances, and he miraculously survives. This story is about a young boy who grows up in a zoo, since his family owns it, and makes sense of himself through religion. One day, Pi’s father decides he is going to move the family to Canada because he believes there will be…

Setting in Life of Pi: The Relationship Between Pi and the Ocean The setting of a story plays a major role in the development of the plot throughout the novel. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, the main character, Pi, is left without his family and only accompanied by an untrained Bengal tiger, Richard Parker. Surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, Pi is compelled to train the tiger for his own survival and faces several physical and spiritual challenges. The existence of these challenges is because of…

A Tiger for Malgudi is interspersed with various incidents and characters that depict the conflict between tradition and unconventionality. The lively descriptions of villagers with their characteristic terror of the primitive man and of the tiger as “a cave-dweller and jungle beast” carry the reader back to the savage times when man’s foremost preoccupation was to save his race from utter annihilation at the hands of wild beasts. The village and the sheep are symbols of innocence and unalloyed…

Many people feel that they could never abandon their morals and values. However, these people have not been challenged with extreme circumstances in their life. Yann Martel, in his novel Life of Pi, shows us that even though we believe our morals and values are important, we can abandon them when we are desperate. His story is about a boy who manages to survive after the boy and his family travels on a ship that sinks. The boy loses his family, and eventually ends up stuck at in a lifeboat…

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.” Yann Martel mentioned this in his famous novel “Life of Pi”，a piece of literature which was then remediated into a movie in 2012. It mainly illustrates the development of the protagonist, Piscine Molitor Patel, and his legendary journey in the Pacific Ocean with an extraordinary companion, a tiger named Richard Parker. This romance narrative follows the narrative…

Throughout Ang Lee’s writing life, Lee achieved the best Man Booker Prize by publishing The Life of Pi, a number one international bestseller. Ang Lee, on the other hand, achieved the Academy Award for Best Director. In the year of 2012, Ang Lee released the The Life of Pi. Both men strived to produce a story that grasped the audience’s attention. Ang Lee’s and Yann Martel’s version of The Life of Pi captives the reader’s or viewer’s mind by introducing a young man who admires religion, survives…

In the story Life of Pi Yann Martel describes the life of a young boy raised on a zoo has a life changing event in his teenage years. He speaks of his views on his life before the sinkage of the great ship that kills all of his family and the animals he grew up beside. He is left stranded in the middle of the Pacific ocean on a 26ft long lifeboat with a tiger and no possibility of being rescued. This leaves our young Pi in a state of grim thinking back on his life and questioning choices he has…