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    He was in a boat full of animals including dangerous ones such as a hyena and a tiger. At the boat, he needs to try to survive from continuous hunger and thirst at the beginning due to not finding any of the requirements. He would also need to try to not get eaten by the carnivorous animals on the boat making him need to survive in…

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    truth in regards to overcoming Pi’s inner demon in the form of a Bengal tiger. Pi’s own inner tiger is Richard Parker. It is Richard Parker that teaches him to embrace his dark side, silence his childish fears and how to beat all odds and survive. Before Pi left society, he was a boy. When he returned, he was a man. After many months alone with only himself and Richard Parker, Pi became to admire and to some extent love the Tiger. Although Richard Parker was savage, brutal and did not take…

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    curious and he is thirsty to learn about different religions but after his parents decide to leave India and move to Canada, he end up in a ship wreck. After the ship wreck he has to try to survive being alone in the ocean with Richard Parker (Bengal tiger). Something that is really interesting in both stories is that the character of pi in each one of the masterpieces is different from one another. In the movie we have the change of colors, looking up and looking down shots which is related to…

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    Yann Martel’s Life of Pi clearly portrays this concept in the tumultuous story of Pi Patel who survives a trip across the Pacific in a lifeboat accompanied by an adult tiger. By giving up religious rules and societal norms, devolving to an animal-like state, and developing a more confident disposition, Pi’s behavioral modifications explicitly illustrate how much human beings will conform their behavior to…

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    Yann Martel 's Life of Pi is the account of a young fellow who survives a nerve racking wreck and months in a raft with a substantial Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Right off the bat in Pi 's life, his dad understands that his child 's gullibility about the tiger in their consideration may place Pi in peril. Pi experiences a noteworthy religious arousing in his developmental years, in the long run subscribing to an assortment of religions: Hinduism, Catholicism, lastly Islam. Despite the…

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    Figure 6: This Kantha is depicting with peacocks and peacock shaped boat, Undivided Bengal, 19th century, Kramrisch Collection, PMA; Source: www.philamuseum.org Figure7: Kantha (Embroidered Quilt), 19th century, depicted with horse, tiger, elephant, peacock Source: www.philamuseum.org Figure 8: Various animal motifs like horse, elephants are embroidered on it. Detail of the corner of a kantha, Faridpur District, 2nd half of the 19th century, Kramrisch Collection, PMA; Source:…

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    Yann Martel's Life of Pi, a story about a 16-year-old Indian boy named Pi Patel, uses symbolism such as the color purple, animals, and the algae island as a way to represent the ways Pi's survival, but water, the profoundest symbol shown throughout the novel. Shipwrecked in the middle of the ocean, Pi has to worry about events such as, hunger, loneliness and that come with the ocean, but he will have overcome these things he will have to overcome to survive and the water with help him. When…

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    Winston Churchill once said “when you’re going through hell, keep going”. And that is exactly what Pi Patel did in The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. Pi, an Indian boy on a voyage with his family, survived the sinking of the Tsunami along with a Bengal tiger. He spent 227 long days out at sea facing many different obstacles. Throughout the story, Martel portrays the life lesson of never giving up by throwing different challenges at Pi and testing his will to survive. These obstacles prove how Pi…

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    simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even killing (Martel, 61). To further expand on this quote, Pi has trouble killing his first fish because before the ship sank he was strictly vegetarian. But in order to retain his own and the tiger Richard Parker’s body physically fit he had to go out of his comfort zone and eat the fish as well as killing it. Moreover, when Louie Zamperini along with his two friends Phillips and Francis McNamara were stuck on sea they only had some…

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    life buoy. Pi’s faith in God helps him survive, his faith kept him alive. “As long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen.” (Martel 148) The tiger that Pi is trapped with, Richard Parker is an orange bengal tiger. Richard Parker instilled fear upon Pi and is the embodiment of God. Choosing to use a orange bengal tiger instead of any other predator or tiger farther proves the author’s skillful and careful considerations of the finer details strengthen the theme of God even…

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