Bengal tiger

time to better his experience on the lifeboat Pi was forced to think of innovative ways to obtain food and shelter. He was able to create a raft to remove himself from Richard Parker. Additionally, Pi was on the lifeboat for 227 days with only a Bengal tiger for company, and in order to survive, he ignored the passing of days. Towards the middle of his ordeal, Pi is recounting how he “survived because [he] made a point of forgetting… [he] did not count the days or the weeks or the months”…

Jesse Gramajo Mrs.Engel English IV 16 April 2016 Life of Pi - Dialectical Journal Rel - “It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we.”(31) Here Pi says atheist do not bother him because they believe in something. Instead he says Agnostics bother him. He said that they choose not to pick a side. By saying this Pi is trying to tell the reader to choose…

Humans live all around nature and are constantly having their lives impacted by all forms of nature. Often times today, people take nature for granted. People tend to be so caught up with their lives that they rarely take time to reflect on the beauty of nature that surrounds them. Nature plays a major role in each person’s life. Some people live their lives in fear of particular elements of nature, such as the animals and natural disasters. Although there can be harmful effects from an…

In a hero’s journey, there are twelve stages that must be completed.(“Stages of the Hero’s Journey”) In Yann Martel’s novel, “Life of Pi”, the protagonist of the story, Pi, was on a hero’s journey. He completed the twelve stages. Starting with his life in Pondicherry to being stranded in the ocean, Pi never gave up and made it through each stage of the journey. Stage one of a hero’s journey is Ordinary World.(“Stages of the Hero’s Journey”) This stage consists of Pi’s life in Pondicherry. He…

humans, surviving in tough situations goes beyond just physical needs such as eating and drinking. It is necessary for people to have proper emotional and spiritual health as well. In the novel The Life Of Pi Pi is a boy on a lifeboat with a bengal tiger, and is trying to survive. Pi has to work in order to meet his emotional, spiritual, and physical needs. In the novel The life of Pi By Yan Martel, Pi uses his reasoning to meet his physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Pi knows that his…

became so aggressive and tried to bite me. Aside from my personal experience, news from different countries are telling us that animals really have the nature of being aggressive. One example is the incident in Singapore in year 2008¨… three white Bengal tigers mauled a zoo cleaner to death after the man walked through a moat surrounding their enclosure...¨ (ABC News [http://abcnews.go.com/International/shocking-zoo-attacks/story?id=16814294#2], Singapore Zoo, 2008). Whenever animals feel like…

Francis Adirubasamy claimed that his story would make one believe in God. After reading his novel, I believe his claim to be true. “The Life of Pi” is a story that provides evidence that God is here to take care of us. This is because of the extraordinary tale of survival that he told. I believe that the survival of Pi seems to be extremely unlikely and there does not seem to be a logical way to explain his survival, except that God was with him, which is why Adirubasamy made his claim.…

He learned of the encounters Pi faced throughout his childhood, religious walk, and his journey acast at sea with a carnivorous bengal tiger. Martel was so intrigued by the details of the story he continued his research by interviewing One of the two men who found Pi after his distressing journey across the pacific, Mr.Okamoto. Mr. Okamoto explained that after hearing of Pi’s situation…

In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, the main character, Pi, is left without his family and only accompanied by an untrained Bengal tiger, Richard Parker. Surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, Pi is compelled to train the tiger for his own survival and faces several physical and spiritual challenges. The existence of these challenges is because of where the novel is set, Pi alone with the tiger, a lifeboat, a raft, and the Pacific Ocean. As a result of overcoming these obstacles, Pi is forced to change and…

understand. The authors have been able to pen down the harsh realities of Bodoland area. The book starts with the introduction of Bodoland area and the Bodo Accord which was signed between Government of India, Government of Assam and the Bodo Liberation Tigers on 10th February 2003. It gives a brief detail of the Bodo Territorial Council (BTC) Area using maps. It also introduces the administrative structure of the BTC. In the second the authors have focussed on areas such as agriculture, water…