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Name:Ada Zhou Class:EN 201-2 Topic:The role of religion in Life of Pi In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi,the main character pi,his journey to Canada is transformed into a dreadful tragedy,as the ship sinks into the depths of the pacific ocean.With the little chance of survival,he finds support through religion because he loves god,religion brings hope to him,and he trusts in god. Faith plays an important role in the process of pi’s survival,because pi loves god.Pi goes through an unexpected journey…

What ideas about Survival are represented in ‘Lion’? By isaac Molloy Survival is the ability to live or exist and face new challenges. Lion represents survival by trusting your instincts, adapting to surroundings and considering all options and think of innovative ideas.The author of Lion is Saroo Brierley written in 2013.The story is about a young boy who gets’s lost in Calcutta, then he is adopted by an Australian family then when he is an adult he finds his way home to meet his birth…

Life of Pie is a novel written by Yann Martel who was born on June 25, 1963, in Salamanca, Spain. It is basically a fictional story about a boy struggling through the difficulties after a shipwreck in which his whole family died along with the crewmembers. He learns new ways to survive at the sea. It teaches a person to stay patient and not to lose hope in any circumstance. The first part of the novel is narrated as in the first person by Pi himself. Pi recounts his story from the background…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to crash land in the ocean well I have. This is the story of how me and my friends survived a plane crash a killer shark and a deserted island. All we wanted to do was help build houses. It all started out like any other day I woke up got dressed and got my coffee and went to school. When I got to home room I sat down and that is wen mrs.alexander announced that we were go to north africa to help build houses she said that there had been a tsunami.…

species (“A List of Arguments for and Against Zoos”). When visiting a zoo, the visitors can learn more about the animals, which creates a sense of helping the animals. Visitors are more prone to donate to their zoo or animal rights charity because they read all the facts and information on their extinctions and predators on their sign near their habitat. About News even mentions that the endangered species in the zoos can be safe from all predators and can hopefully reproduce to bring them out…

The first story is the better story because it is a more interesting story to read. It’s incredible that Pi could survive with a Bengal Tiger but it is true. Mr. Okamoto doesn’t believe that Pi could survive with a tiger aboard the lifeboat. “‘Mr. Patel, a tiger is an incredibly dangerous wild animal. How could you survive in a lifeboat…

It is scientifically proven that one's emotional state affects his or her attitude, making it the most important factor to survival. In Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, Piscine Patel, known as Pi, encounters a traumatic experience, and an incredible journey of survival. To bear the difficult conditions he endured, Pi relied on his emotional state to keep him sane through a healthy balance of different emotions, and the importance of his animalistic side. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Pi’s…

The fittest person survives! The fighting man succeeds! He who fights to fit, will survive to succeed! In Life of Pi by Yann Martel the main character Piscine, also known as Pi is on a ship when tragedy strikes, and a terrible storm sinks the ship. As the only human survivor, Pi is not alone; a tiger named Richard Parker has also found refuge on the lifeboat and so did several other animals. In the novel Life of Pi, Martel uses the animals to create a self identity out of survival by…

plays a very important role in this ordeal for Pi. She is is closest thing to a human and this fact provides both comfort and grief for Pi. Pi compares her to a human saying, “The poor dear looked so humanly sick! It is a particularly funny thing to read human traits in animals, especially in apes and monkeys…

The Life of Pi is an interesting novel, in which the protagonist, Piscine Patel, finds himself stranded in the Pacific Ocean with a 450 lb. Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Or was he? The novel presents two stories to the reader, one in which Piscine, commonly referred to as Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with animals, and one story in which Pi finds himself stranded in the same setting, but with human counterparts, and a much more gruesome ending. The true story is the one with humans for…