Barbara Gordon

Trial and Error Envision surviving on a fearful island. Full of violently wild animals such as snakes and lions. Even bizarre animals like whales, donkeys, and ostriches just to name a few. In the novel Swiss Family Robinson, the family gets stranded on this island, because they are shipwrecked. While on this island, they attempt to tame a donkey and an eagle. The Robinson family eagerly selected a donkey, who was missing because of the devastating shipwreck. The donkey was relatively easy to…

Throughout history, humans have always pursued stories of happy endings and gracious conclusions. From upbeat fairy tales to typical cinema portraying good overcoming evil, it is evident that we seek contentment in our everyday life. It is no question that it is human nature to want to believe in something appealing to the mind. People always side with the light side as seen since the beginning of time, heavily relying on religion and faith to provide backbones of moral foundations. The…

To begin, “Life of Pi” and “The Story of Keesh” they show how both characters find the strength to survive in their extreme environment In “The Story of Keesh”, Keesh lives in a hostile village, in “Life of Pi” Pi is in a threatening environment, but in both stories they gain strength to do what they need to survive. According to the story, Keesh goes to the council to complain about the meat he’s being apportioned they’re rude to him. On page 62 the council says “He is no man that he should…

In 19th century Qing Dynasty China, a warrior (Chow Yun-Fat) gives his sword, Green Destiny, to his lover (Michelle Yeoh) to deliver to safe keeping, but it is stolen, and the chase is on to find it. The search leads to the House of Yu where the story takes on a whole different level. As for what “crouching tiger, hidden dragon” means, a message board posting reveals the answer: “The phrase 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' (Wuo hu zhan long) is a chinese idiom in which the words 'Tiger' and…

The book titled Life of Pi written by Yann Martel is an adventurous story, which gives an account of how Piscine Patel, known as Pi, experiences various adventures and misadventures in the sea. Pi is a young Indian teenager who grows up with animals being the son of the owner of a zoo. The story describes how Pi values the faiths of Hinduism, Islam and Christianity, and how he trusts in the values imparted by his family. The ghastly part of the story is the way Pi survives with a Bengal Tiger…

Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are animals living in a zoo in New York. Alex, a lion, is a main showpiece at the zoo and is very satisfied with his life in the zoo. However, Marty imagines what it would be like to escape to nature. While celebrating Marty’s birthday, Marty tells them that he wants to go to nature. The next day, Marty was missing from his zoo pen. Alex, Melman, and Gloria break out of the zoo to find Marty, but all four are eventually caught by animal control. They soon wake up…

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…

To survive means to continue to live or exist, especially in times of danger and hardship. The most important thing to survive is to stay strong physically and emotionally. Evident throughout the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel and in the movie Cast Away directed by Robert Zemeckis. Pi Patel and Chuck Nolan, the protagonists, are similar in the way they survive physically, but differ in the way they survive emotionally and in their value of time. As noted, Pi and Chuck survive physically in a…

Three different social groups are looked at in Life of Pi, that being Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. The mainstream religion in Pondicherry is Hinduism. Islam is inferior compared to Hinduism and Christianity. In the middle of the novel, the Priest, the Pundit, and the Imam argue over whose religion is greater and justify their answers. Both, the Pundit and the Priest come to agree that Islam is a religion based on violence. All three men do not know much about the other’s religion, but they…