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gave the author a chance to meet Pi in person. Santosh Patel- A. Pi’s father. Santosh was very fond of animals, so he decided to run the Pondicherry Zoo. B. He teaches his sons to care for animals, but also fear them. Santosh moved his family to Canada because of the harsh conditions in India. 3.Main Setting: 1960-1976. The Pacific Ocean was the main setting, Pondicherry, India was the 2nd most important setting. 4. Plot Exposition- The exposition is the first part of the book where Pi gives…

lessons which changed his perspective on life and other individuals. Pi’s relationship with his family is portrayed through the novel as the family is having supper, “It was announced to us one evening during dinner. Ravi and I were thunderstruck. Canada! If Andhra Pradesh, just north of us, was alien, if Sri Lanka, a…

The fragments Yann Martel puts together in this chapter of Life of Pi really makes the story come to life. At this point in the novel, Pi is becoming content with his surroundings. He begins by detailing the night sky, moon, and shining stars; as Pi goes on with his description we begin to see various notions of light and dark imagery. The composition of darkness infers danger, whereas light gives us a sense of faith. If Martel were to merely say “the night sky is pitch black”, we would see no…

Life of Pi is essentially a story that strives to explain, prove, and show in detail the conscious and unconscious mind theory known as the Iceberg Theory by Sigmund Freud, a famous psychoanalyst. This theory includes three basic parts. 1, the id which essentially is the survival mode of the mind. The instinctive part. The part that is believed to be instilled in all human’s minds from day one and we fight this primitive part on a daily basis. How do we fight it you ask? Well the second part of…

In the novel “Life of Pi” written by Yann Martel discribes the life of a Indian boy name Piscine Molitar Patel and what he undergoes to finding his true beliefs. Faith plays a signifiant in shaping Pi’s personality. Pi’s significance of Hundusim, Christianity, and Islam helps him discovery his own beliefs on religion. Growing up Pi’s mother and auntie practiced Hinduism. As Pi comes to age he discoveries sprirituality. Pi curiosity in relgions grew as he discovered there was more than the…

Life of Pi and The Story of Keesh Survival in an extreme environment requires intelligence, ingenuity and resilience. In the story “The Story of Keesh” Jack London portrays the fundamental character Keesh, who use wit and resourcefulness to survive in the extreme environment of the Arctic, and in the story “Life of Pi” Yann Martel depicts how the main character Pi use ingenuity and resilience to survive alone in the middle of the Pacific ocean with an adult tiger.…

Life of Pi is a novel written by Yann Martel which explores the many aspects of a journey of a young boy named Pi regarding his religious connection towards the world. Martel displays a range of techniques and stylistic devices and imagery so he can portray the novel through a variety of archetypal lenses and psychoanalytical techniques. At the very beginning, of the book Life of Pi, the story is framed as "a story that will make you believe in God." This idea becomes interpreted differently…

Yann Martel 's Life of Pi is the account of a young fellow who survives a nerve racking wreck and months in a raft with a substantial Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Right off the bat in Pi 's life, his dad understands that his child 's gullibility about the tiger in their consideration may place Pi in peril. Pi experiences a noteworthy religious arousing in his developmental years, in the long run subscribing to an assortment of religions: Hinduism, Catholicism, lastly Islam. Despite the…

A Spiritual Survival Guide It is nearly impossible to imagine the capacity at which Pi Patel, a young Indian boy, relies and survives because of his undying faith. The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel is a story about this very phenomenon. As this story comes into fruition, this boy is introduced as one who has double majored in zoology and religion after surviving miraculously at sea for 227 days. The very nature of this tale incorporates these ideologies in such a way that elicits strong feelings of…

Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.” (21). This quote can have many different meanings. Pi has heard many people say negative things about zoos, mostly that they take away noble, wild animals of their freedom and trap them in boring, domesticated lives, but he disagrees. He believes that wild animals in their natural surroundings come to deal with fear, fighting, lack of food, and parasites on a regular basis. Animals in the wild are not free at…