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learned in India was that religion is important. Pi was raised Hindu by his parents, but had an eye for other religions. He started with Christianity at the age of fourteen. Pi met Father Martin while on a vacation with his family and stumbled upon a hill, the home to a Christian church. Shortly afterwards, he became a follower of the religion. Next came Islam at the age of fifteen, when he discovered the Jamia Masjid. He met Mr. Kumar, became intrigued, and added being a Muslim to his ‘resume’ of religions. He became an avid follower of all of these religions, praying daily and becoming baptised. Religion made him contempt, and happy, which made it important to him. He had order in his life and felt like it had meaning. As he says in the book, “The presence of God is the finest of rewards” (Martel 63). Once again, Pi believed that religion is important, and we see this very clearly while he is on the lifeboat. Numerous times throughout the period of time that he is stranded, he is praying to God. We see this on his daily schedule, with ‘prayers’ appearing five times throughout the day. Without his heavy belief in religion and God, he would have felt defeated and ready to give up. Since Pi had no family or personal belongings with him on the lifeboat, he found safety with his religion as it’s the one thing he had in India that is still with him now. The events that Pi went through were traumatic, and religion helped soothe that pain a little by providing him with faith and…

Laura Ann and I agreed that throughout this gruesome and disastrous section of The Life of Pi, Pi demonstrates true endurance and determination. Pi is put to an extreme test of survival when the cargo ship he was traveling on, sinks. He is the only human survivor along with a few other animals. This unlikely bunch find their way onto a life raft and fight to survive. One of these animals is an orangutan named Orange Juice. Orange Juice plays a very important role in this ordeal for Pi. She is is…

Imagine being lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger that’s starving of hunger and having to figure out a way not to get eaten by it. Or having to train a really dangerous tiger knowing that it might attack because it’s hungry. Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, describes one full story of a kid who’s lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger, and a kid whose family passed away when they were on a boat on their way to Canada for better job opportunities. The story with…

afraid of Richard Parker, he possibly could’ve eaten and killed Pi. Pi learned how to take care of and connect with animals because his dad owns a zoo. Pi really became connected with the animals. Pi started to hear the animals in place of everyday noises; for example he heard roaring lions and howler monkeys in place of an alarm clock. Pi really loved to spend time at the zoo with the animals. Pi considers the zoo paradise. Pi used religion, protection and connecting with animals to survive 227…

A Tiger for Malgudi is interspersed with various incidents and characters that depict the conflict between tradition and unconventionality. The lively descriptions of villagers with their characteristic terror of the primitive man and of the tiger as “a cave-dweller and jungle beast” carry the reader back to the savage times when man’s foremost preoccupation was to save his race from utter annihilation at the hands of wild beasts. The village and the sheep are symbols of innocence and unalloyed…

The Life of Pi, by Yaun Martel, is an adventure filled story about how an indian boy named Pi Patel spent seven months at sea with an adult Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Throughout the novel, Pi speaks about his life in the boat and the adventures that came as a result of his peculiar situation. He constantly has to struggle with the problem of living with the tiger on the boat, since the tiger could easily kill him. However, Pi intuitively manages to subdue the tiger and make his own life…

there was another animal even more dangerous than us...the animal as seen through the human eyes” (34). The lesson he learned from his father shapes Pi’s identity because it tells him the true reality of an animal, the tiger, it is a ferocious animal and has the ability to strike without warning. He solidifies his identity and becomes aware to the fact that animals must not be treated with the faint of heart. This idea of self awareness is wholly backed up by another critical essay, “Since that…

In The White Tiger, Arvind Adiga, presents a protagonist Balram Halwai who struggles to come to terms with his new identity. While working as a cook, dishcleaner and a driver, Halwai transforms himself into a master. He differentiates himself from his master through actions with consequences. Revolting against the brutality of Ashok and Pinky Madam, he is able to affirm the identity of a successful entrepreneur from a Rikshaw Puller's nameless son 'Munna'. In three years of schooling, a school…

Piscine Molitor Patel was born and raised in India. It was in India where he was named after Mamaji’s (his father’s business partner) favorite swimming pool. It was in India where he came up with the nickname Pi to stop the bullies from making fun of his name. It was in India where he fell in love with God three times and with three different ways: with Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. However, Pi learned most when he was trapped on a lifeboat for 227 with a tiger. When Pi was sixteen, his…

This book is really worth a taste of the book, the beginning of Pi is an ignorant teenager, and then because the whole family to move to Canada and take the Japanese cargo ship, but unfortunately at sea, the ship Difficult to live Pi is followed by a hyena, a broken zebra, an orangutan and an adult Bengal tiger in a lifeboat, the hyena was killed after the injured zebra and orangutan, and then replaced by a tiger Pi killed the hyenas, Pi watched these things happen, but he could do nothing,…