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In the stories Life of Pi and “ The story of Keesh” the will to inspire in an extreme environment shows how characters survive and try to find a way to stay alive. In “ The story of Keesh” the extreme environment shows how Keesh is trying to find meat for him and his family so they can stay alive. Evidence that show the extreme environment is “ Go ye men, with the dogs and sledges, and take my trail for the better part of a day’s travel, he said there is much meat on the ice” (London 65).…

The division between the world of reality and the world of imagination and interpretation can often be drawn across a slim line. Literature often acts as a beacon to portray this imaginary line. Author ask their audience to define their interpretations of reality in order to stir the pot of idealized maturity of what exists and what is merely imaginative. Both literary works, The Life of Pi and “The Metamorphosis”, demonstrate an attempt of an author to stretch the fundamentals of their reader’s…

tiger on a lifeboat is much more interesting than the basic survival story. The true story in the book The Life of Pi is the 2nd story. The 1st story is an obvious coping strategy, is more realistic, and is made to be the main focus. Don’t believe me? Read the book for yourself. Write your own…

I chose the topic of being stranded somewhere. In “The Life of Pi” Pi get set into the sea with a tiger from a zoo. Being stranded alone is stressful enough, but being stranded with a tiger and not knowing what may happen can stress someone out to the max. Pi is a middle aged man who was a vegetarian that needed to learn to eat meat and survive. The tiger helped him learn how to kill and eat the meat from anything including humans. Pi went through so much stress that he broke and couldn’t…

The novel, Life of Pi, by Yann Martel centers around an innocent, religious and vegetarian Indian boy, Pi Patel. However, when Pi finds himself stranded on the Pacific Ocean after the sinking of the Tsimtsum, and faces starvation and the possibility of death, he abandons his ethics in order to survive. When investigators asked Pi what happened on the lifeboat, Pi tells them a story with zoo animals that have survived the shipwreck as well, one of which is an adult Bengal tiger. When asked by the…

The state of well-being is an arbitrary condition. Though society has and continues to wrap a thin security blanket around citizens’ shoulders, it disguises the fact that welfare can easily be swept away in the span of a second by numerous culprits. Therefore, the inner compass to seek survival is not optional, but rather essential to every self-reliant man’s survival. Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi, stresses this notion through the account of Pi Patel and his brutally desperate survival tactics…

born to an Indian family. While growing up in Pondicherry India, Pi’s father maintained and operated a zoo, where he was let to roam the zoo and interact with animals and staff. Yet, due to India’s Political unrest, Pi’s family decided to move to Canada and in order to do so they had to sell off the animals to bidders from North America. Accordingly, Pi and his family set across the Pacific Ocean in a cargo ship along with cages full of their animals. Unfortunately, however the ship sinks,…

One of, if not the, biggest overarching themes of Life of Pi by Yann Martel is religion. Being Hindu, Muslim and Christian Pi is very religious and even scorned atheism a few times in the book. So one would think that Life of Pi is a book that advocates for religion. Pi’s story is even described as being one that will “make you believe in God”. My interpretation of the novel, however, was the opposite. At times Life of Pi seemed like it was advocating for atheism more so than for religion. One…

exciting adventure experience with a tiger on the sea. Pi found a special and profound relationship with this tiger and they become friends. Pi made many decisions because he need alive. In this book, Pi’s father immigrants their family to Canada, so they need to move out from their country. Pi has to leave his lover or he can’t live with his family. At that situation, he choose to go with his family. He leave his lover with sadness. I believe that if I was in that situation…

Yann Martel, wrote an incredible novel, called Life of Pi. The Life of Pi was phenomenal. Pi Patel was stranded on the ocean, in a life boat, with a tiger, for 227 days. Surviving on nothing but faith and hope. There were two stories. One with the animals and one with the people. Everyone views these two adventures differently. Some may find the first story is better than the second, or vice versa. Which is the better story? Which story is more believable? The details in the text with the…