Bengal tiger

Imagery is used precisely and elegantly when describing Pi’s journey afloat on a life raft after the sinking of the ship him and his family were on with a Bengal tiger known as Richard Parker. This rich detail is seen when describing the island on which they land as an “exceptional botanical discovery” and making assertions on the island’s diameter and such (Martel 246). Contrarily, Martel also exposes the potential…

The animal i have chose is the red panda and the raccoon. I choose this animal because the red panda is a very interesting animal and the raccoon is also interesting animal. The raccoon belongs to the mammals and the red panda belongs to the Ailuridae family. The red panda is going extinct there is only 10,00 0 red pandas in the world left . The raccoon is not going extinct there is a lot of raccoons in the world. The red pandas features compared to the raccoons features. The red pandas…

Literature is all around us. It is prominent and used in all studies to gain connections. One connection is to compare Literature to Real World situations or world problems. Authors always have a source of inspiration from some other work of literature and or situations occurring in the past, present, or future. In some cases, fiction or drama literature sometimes has underlying themes or realities that are current to today’s societies. The author could take a real-world situation into a…

a mere 15 years of my life. The book I am referring to is Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. It is a riveting novel that centers on a boy, lost in the middle of the pacific ocean with nothing but his wits, his will, and a four hundred and fifty pound bengal tiger. This novel regards more than just the tribulations of survival. It is one that explores identity, religion and the priority of hope. The novel’s preface utilises a clever fusion of truth and spectacle. Martel speaks to the reader about the…

Perspective and belief will vary from person to person, but what will always remain the same is the truth. Yann Martel, in his book Life of Pi, shows that varying stories can convey the same truth and underlying message, in different ways. In the book, Piscine Molitor Patel, also known as Pi, tells two stories of his time stranded in the Pacific Ocean. In the first story he tells of how he is accompanied by animals that occasionally act like humans. The fact that Pi was able to survive in…

explaining man’s purpose and place in the world. Religion is a significant reoccurring theme in Life of Pi by Yann Martel: the story of a boy named Pi who embarks on a spiritual adventure alone in the Pacific with his only company being a large Bengal tiger. Before this journey, Pi lived a simple life in India as the son of a zookeeper, and during his childhood he found comfort and knowledge in the religions of Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. This prior knowledge of multiple religions greatly…

like and awkward run on.) With a main character that is so involved with religion, there is no surprise that some religious themes come out of the novel. For most of the story, Pi is stranded at sea trapped in a lifeboat with Richard Parker, a Bengal tiger. During his two-hundred and twenty-seven long struggle for survival, Pi comes across a variety of incredible and awe inspiring events that help to affirm his various religious beliefs. In…

apable effects of a warming world. Miami, and major parts of Florida are a great risk from the earth’s changing climate as the rising oceans threaten to swallow most of the southern half of the state. Tensions between Bangladesh and India intensify as the rising sea water threatens to displace millions of people, with India’s only solution to the issue being to build a larger border. “The Siege of Miami”, written by Elizabeth Kolbert, paints a terrifying portrait of the consequences of rising…

requires you to have aspiration even if something goes in the wrong direction and intelligence by creating useless items into useful items. In the excerpt Life of Pi by Yann Martel, it explains how Pi struggles to survive on a lifeboat with a large Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after a horrific shipwreck. In the short story, “Story of Keesh” by Jack London it describes how Keesh believes that the meat provided to the village in the North Pole wasn’t…

The theme of death is shown in many pieces of literature, in various ways, which impact the plot and development of each character. The theme of death affects the storyline of a novel or play in a very individualized way which helps determines the path of the plot and the development of the characters. This is shown in the following three pieces of literature; Hamlet, The Lovely Bones, and Life of Pi. It is aided by literary devices such as imagery where the main character is compared to an…