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    The first story is the better story because it is a more interesting story to read. It’s incredible that Pi could survive with a Bengal Tiger but it is true. Mr. Okamoto doesn’t believe that Pi could survive with a tiger aboard the lifeboat. “‘Mr. Patel, a tiger is an incredibly dangerous wild animal. How could you survive in a lifeboat with one?’” (pg 296) Pi used “one important topic…establishing of alpha-omega…” (pg 168) Pi could establish…

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    Fishing In Life Of Pi

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    So one is stranded in the middle of the ocean on a lifeboat with a vicious Bengal tiger. Does one jump off the boat, kill the tiger, or try to create peace? One doesn’t have much time. It is a tough question because all of the options are life threatening. Has one decided yet? Act fast! Many people would try to kill the tiger, but one doesn’t have any weapons. Jump off the boat, then one would drown. Piscine Patel evaluated all of these options in the novel, Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Pi, short…

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    in the suburbs of texas. They moved to Katy because his mom Tina was already working there. He went to Katy High School in Texas. He played Baseball, Basketball, and Football in high school. In high school Andy Dalton’s number was 14. That year the tigers was 12-2. James Aston allowed for Andy to complete 38 of 67 pass attempts for 678 yards, ten touchdowns, and two intercepts. Andy got a scholarship to Texas Christian University. In college Andy also had the number 14. His junior…

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    The male bengal tiger, the male hyena, a male zebra, and a female orangutan. Pi is with all four animals for a day then the hyena kills the orangutan and the zebra. The bengal tiger kills off the hyena so it can survive. The tiger, Richard Parker, and Pi go on a long journey encountering many obstacles and finally reaching land. At the end of the story Pi is asked by two japanese businessmen what the real story was, due to…

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    fiction with cunning charm. In the novel, an adult version of Pi tells his story to the reader. Pi Patel was named after a French swimming pool and then nicknamed himself after the irrational number. He survives 227 days lost at sea with a Royal Bengal Tiger until he arrives at the coast of Mexico. Life of Pi is a truly incredible book crafted by Yann Martel’s exquisite knowledge of mundane facts which help aid the legitimacy of the book. Great novels have great authors and Yann Martel is no…

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    somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, for seven long months, with an adult male Bengal Tiger. In this story, Yann Martel gives his readers a choice to make. That choice, is the choice to believe, or not believe. The choice the reader makes alters the entire perspective of the story in question. ThisIt alters the entire perspective, but one thing remains: a 450 pound bengalthe tiger. Nowinformal Tthis tiger, plays a very prominent role what is this role? be specific in the survival of…

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    relationship begins off with Pi 's normal apprehension towards this 450 pound tiger and later advances toward an adoration for an animal that did him no mischief. When he first sees Richard Parker over the edge, his starting response was to spare the animal. He doesn 't know where he is or what is going on thus the commonplace face consoles him. He utilizes all his strength and vitality to attempt to help and support the tiger onto the…

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    and Pi are also using their basic instinct of survival in different ways. David for instance is not on a lifeboat with a tiger and Pi is not telepathic that knows other telepaths. Ultimately isolation is the key to survival which in turn warps the human mind. Towards the middle of each novel both characters start to learn to stay alive, Pi learns how to be on a lifeboat with a tiger and David learns to keep a secret from others. At the beginning of the chrysalids David finds out that he is…

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    This also represents what is keeping him safe. Pi acknowledges this and begins to look at the bengal tiger in another light. As his hopes become dimmer, Pi’s fear grows, becoming a dominating force. He takes a step back to observe the situation at hand and comes up with several plans to kill or get away from the tiger. Pi sees this won’t work and becomes afraid, as he is looking at Richard Parker he becomes calmed, “It was Richard Parker who calmed me down…

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    Yann Martel's Quests

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    novel, Life of Pi, emulates the conventions of a quest in its incorporation of a quester in the protagonist, Pi, moving to Canada due to deficient governance in his home country on a ship that sank, which leaves him stranded on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger seeking for the will to survive through faith, and along the…

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