Charles Martel

Music can have a huge influence over a child’s academic life. The author of Life of Pi, Yann Martel feels that the arts can have an influence over a person’s imagination. Martel feels that “If we citizens do not support the arts, then we sacrifice our imagination...” (xi). Music has the ability to spark memories of times someone has had with his or her families and friends. A song played during the holiday season can bring back memories of something as simple as decorating a Christmas tree or…

In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Pi Patel is a member of three different religions. He believes that all these religions are the same, they all work towards an afterlife, and when it is all boiled down to it, each of simply wants to love God. Pi uses this beautiful faith in God as a vital coping mechanism to survive the vast Pacific Ocean. His faith in God proves to be a crucial part in Pi’s survival as it guides him through his ordeal. Throughout the novel religion is an aspect that…

A hero can be defined as a person who shows exemplary courage while undergoing a quest for enlightenment. In the novel “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel, the protagonist, Pi, is considered a hero. According to Joseph Campbell, the man who created the quest pattern, a hero must undergo three distinctive parts of his or her journey for it to be considered a true quest for enlightenment. The innocence factor relates to the life the hero lived before their journey of becoming a hero begins. They normally…

The Life of PI by Yann Martel takes us through a mind blowing journey of faith, struggle and obstacles. Pi Patel was stranded on a boat by himself for over 100 days but was still able to remain grateful during his time of struggle. Many things inspired his strong willed nature of not being thankful during his time’s of struggles. One being his unwavering faith in God, the others being his ability to find God Inside of him and him being able to remain thankful to those who kept him alive even…

himself, “It was a dazzling display of might and speed. Actually, it was not so much the speed that was impressive but the pure animal confidence...Such a mix of ease and concentration, such being-in-the-present, would be the envy of the highest yogis”(Martel, 201). In both plots, a guide develops into a necessity for the protagonists’ survival and ultimate success. For Edward Bloom, Amos Calloway was a great influence in his initial start on his journey. For Pi Patel, Richard Parker enacted as…

second night at sea stands in my memory as one exceptional suffering, different from the frozen anxiety of the first night in being a more conventional sort of suffering, the broken-down kind consisting of weeping and sadness and spiritual pain…” (Martel 124). When Pi becomes blind in the first story, his lifeboat encounters a Frenchman. After conversing for a while, the Frenchman eventually attempts to murder Pi. “He [the Frenchman] landed upon me heavily. We fell onto the tarpaulin, half…

twenty-four days.The hunger for pi’s survival left him undergoing a long period of tribulation at sea.But he insists.He says ‘I just want to love god’(Martel 89).Although Pi was born a Hindu,his father did not have a religious bone…

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.…