Bengal tiger

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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 made previously. Until his realization that he must learn to live beside this huge tiger, Richard Parker, on the lifeboat that may be the difference between life and death. As a young boy Pi was very intelligent and…

about in school would no longer be around. Many species of monkeys, tigers, jaguars, snakes, sloths, and birds would be gone forever. In my opinion, the large cat family of animals in the most majestic, well-known creatures in existence. The large cat family would suffer indefinitely due to there being no other habitat around Brazil that those creatures could survive. I do not want my children to grow up never learning about Bengal tigers and black jaguars simply due to our inability to think of…

shipwreck that changed his life. Pi Patel is the protagonist of the book who is raised in a Hindu family, but he devotes himself to Christianity and the Islamic religion. He survives 277 days in a lifeboat with Richard Parker, a 450 pound Royal Bengal tiger after the Japanese ship sinks in the Pacific Ocean. Pi is separated from his family. I chose a passage from chapter 16 because Pi’s belief in God helps him to survive at sea. From this chapter, Pi Patel learns that it doesn’t matter what…

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…

him. It was at that moment that I realized necessity. It was not a question of him or me, but of him and me. We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat. We would live – or we would die – together” (181). Pi has never forgotten that the Bengal…

In the “life of Pi”, Piscine Molitor Patel, Pi, was stranded on a lifeboat with a 450 pound royal bengal tiger named Richard Parker, On a lifeboat, where food is scarce, Richard Parker depended on Pi to take care of him, feed him, water him, and so on. However Pi also needed Richard Parker, almost or even more to the same degree as Richard Parker needed Pi. If it were not for Richard Parker, Pi would not have survived as long as he did, more likely to have died in the first few months, let…

In the story “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel, Pi comes very close to death. He suffers through hunger, dehydration, heat radiation, and has a bengal tiger on the boat. On his trip he had to overcome his vegetarian simple lifestyle and figure out how to survive. In order to survive he killed animals, killed a man, and tried to drown Richard Parker in the beginning so he wouldn’t be on the boat. (He did not succeed.) The quote that relates to this is, "When your own life is threatened, your sense of…

Many are familiar with the story of Helen Keller: how she devastatingly became both blind and deaf, but then gradually learned to read and write through a conversion of attitude and a steady hand to guide her. Such is the archetypal transformation of death and rebirth that a character goes through physically, mentally, or emotionally, when a part of his old life dies and as a result new habits transform him. Although water is a destructive force in nature, it is commonly associated with the…

tropical rainforest is home to over 15 million species of plants and animals within this biome. Some of the animals that are living in tropical rainforests include, the African forest elephant, the Bengal tiger, and the Chimpanzee. Some of the plants that the tropical rainforest is home to include, Bengal Bamboo, The coconut tree, and Jambu. Plantlife Tropical rainforests receive 60 to 160 inches of precipitation that is evenly distributed throughout the year. Due to the moisture and…