Barbara Gordon

As a magical realistic narrative, Life of Pi displays “a strong sense of the phenomenal world” (Faris and Zamora, 169). The narrator’s minute delineation of sensory details involves, “entrancing magic details that cannot be explained according to the laws of the natural universe” (Faris and Zamora, 171). In his battle for survival, Pi comes to realize the futility of overcoming his ferocious enemy and the need to establish an ingenious way of coexistence, as a strategic option: “I had to tame…

In The Life of Pi, a young boy called Pi is left to fend for himself in a small lifeboat containing a Royal Bengal tiger, an adult orangutan, a ferocious hyena, and an injured zebra. They are forced to cooperate and survive along each other, but many of those animals do not survive. Eating is part of survival during the day-to-day life of everyone, but in The Life of Pi, it means much more than that. Eating becomes the most important thing in both Pi and the animals’ lives, which gives it a…

What inspires the will to survive when situated in an extreme environment? Being in a dangerous environment can cause the human body to panic, especially if they’re alone. Whether it’s being stranded out on the ocean with a tiger on the boat, living on the rim of the polar sea and having to hunt polar bears for survival, to being separated from your own parents because of a storm can be difficult to maintain your determination of surviving. Comparing “ The Lost Island of Tamarind “ and Life…

Piscine Molitor Patel, also known as Pi, the protagonist of Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, manages to survive an astonishing 227 days on an aimless life boat with the company of a 450 pound bengal tiger named Richard Parker. To survive alone with limited supplies, one must find new ways to live as well as adapt to their new surroundings. Physical health is the most important aspect of survival. Next, would be psychological (mental) health and finally spiritual wellness. These are three main aspects…

Piscine Molitor Patel was born and raised in India. It was in India where he was named after Mamaji’s (his father’s business partner) favorite swimming pool. It was in India where he came up with the nickname Pi to stop the bullies from making fun of his name. It was in India where he fell in love with God three times and with three different ways: with Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. However, Pi learned most when he was trapped on a lifeboat for 227 with a tiger. When Pi was sixteen, his…

This book is really worth a taste of the book, the beginning of Pi is an ignorant teenager, and then because the whole family to move to Canada and take the Japanese cargo ship, but unfortunately at sea, the ship Difficult to live Pi is followed by a hyena, a broken zebra, an orangutan and an adult Bengal tiger in a lifeboat, the hyena was killed after the injured zebra and orangutan, and then replaced by a tiger Pi killed the hyenas, Pi watched these things happen, but he could do nothing,…

Richard Parker, a massive bengal tiger lost at sea for nearly a year with only a teenage boy to keep him company. Or is it the other way around; Pi, a teenage boy with only a tiger to share the boat with? As interesting as it is unlikely, but just who are Pi and Richard Parker? Pi, formally Piscine, grew up at his father’s zoo, the same one where Richard Parker came upon. As the story states, the tiger was initially named Thirsty because he was caught while drinking, yet there had been a…

“When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival,” claims the author of Life of Pi, Yann Martel, in the voice of his character Piscine “Pi” Patel. Pi survives as a castaway for 227 days after the cargo ship Tsimtsum sinks for an unknown reason, and takes Pi’s family with it. Now Pi must face survival with only a limited supply of food and water and the fully grown Bengal Tiger, Richard Parker, for company. Pi’s story shows the…

In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Piscine M. Patel (also known as Pi) is a teenager believing in three religions: Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. All three of these regions with their respective gods and deities have teached Pi morality and kindness. However, when Pi’s family sells their zoo at Pondicherry, and prepares a move to Canada, he nearly loses his morality fighting for survival after their cargo ship sank in the Pacific Ocean. Sailing on a lifeboat with 4 other animals for over 200…

Piscine Patel (known as Pi), a religious boy from Pondicherry, is part of a family who, under the motivation of India’s disastrous political state, decides to move to Canada. After the cargo ship sets sail to Canada the ship begins to sink and Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat with a hyena, orangutan, zebra and tiger, Richard Parker. All the animals die at the hands of each other, except for Richard Parker, who saves Pi from the hyena and once again from a desperate blind Frenchman at sea who…