Cory Booker

You’re stranded in the ocean, with a Bengal tiger with many dangerous events coming towards you, trying to survive for a long time with limited supplies, Pi had to go through in the 2001 novel by Yann Martel. I’ll say a few things about what I like and dislike and whom I would recommend it too. One of the things I liked about Life of Pi is the details he used to describe nature. It helped me vividly feel like I was in the book, for an example the text “The water was shot through with…

Throughout the story, animals playing a symbolizing role was drastically used in The Life Pi by (Yann Martel). For example, the Hyena represented the Cook, the Orangutan represented Pi’s mother (Gita) , and Richard Parker represented the evil side of Pi. Thinking of the Hyena’s characteristics, it’s safe to say the Hyena reflects to the Cook in the “true story”. The Hyena and the Cook both portray selfishness. The cook was determined to sacrifice Pi for his own wants and needs, when he…

The Real Story of Pi’s Journey What it would be like to live with one of nature’s most dangerous animals? In the book, The Life of Pi, Pi is on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger for 227 days. The reader will learn about his journey and how he survived with the tiger. Interactions or life outside the wilderness with nature’s most dangerous may seem impossible; but loyalty and dominance have not been taken into consideration. Regardless of the animal, they can show loyalty as long as there is love…

Within the memoir of the book Up from Slavery tells the life story of Booker T. Washington, from childhood throughout the height and low points of his career. This book is written in first person, supplemented with excerpts from letters and newspaper editorials that are all information about his work. Mr. Washington was born as a slave on a plantation in Virginia. He had an intensive sweltering hunger for edification and, once freedom arose, he trained himself to read. He spent much of his…

Yann Martel's Life of Pi, a story about a 16-year-old Indian boy named Pi Patel, uses symbolism such as the color purple, animals, and the algae island as a way to represent the ways Pi's survival, but water, the profoundest symbol shown throughout the novel. Shipwrecked in the middle of the ocean, Pi has to worry about events such as, hunger, loneliness and that come with the ocean, but he will have overcome these things he will have to overcome to survive and the water with help him. When…

Piscine Molitor Patel, also known as Pi, once said “It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then you can let go. Otherwise, you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse” (pg. 285, chapter 94). As captivating as those words are, the book “Life of Pi” written by Yann Martel is even more compelling. Pi Patel, who is the protagonist of this story, narrates his journey from when he was named after a famous pool in Paris, which did…

Alejandra Garcia Survival Essay In order to survive, people have gone to great lengths to survive. People have been known to drink their own urine, when they aren’t lucky at finding water, eating raw meat, and fruits that have a chance of being poisonous. If you want to take a more gruesome path, people have gone to cannibalism, or even eating their own body parts. In the movie “The Good Lie” is a movie about the “Lost Boys” of Sudan, which is located in Africa. In the movie the the…

Life of Pi seems to distribute many teachings and themes to the reader during Pi’s 227-day journey in the Pacific Ocean. Yann Martel leaves it up to the reader to discover which lesson shall be valued the most. Martel uses journey in Life of Pi to achieve the message of thriving through unlikely circumstances is possible with belief and perseverance. Martel explains how Pi uses religion to aid him in his survival efforts. Pi is also fortunate enough to have experience with animals from past…

Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi is a coming of age story about a young man reaching maturity through a story filled with tragic and loss. His novel is based on a tragedy that creates a journey with the survival aspect of life. The story takes place in the 1960’s in a lifeboat. Pi Patel finds himself on the lifeboat because his family was on their way to Canada when their ship had an accident. Pi found himself on a lifeboat with a zebra, hyena, orangutan, and a tiger. “Things didn 't turn out the…

To survive means to continue to live or exist, especially in times of danger and hardship. The most important thing to survive is to stay strong physically and emotionally. Evident throughout the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel and in the movie Cast Away directed by Robert Zemeckis. Pi Patel and Chuck Nolan, the protagonists, are similar in the way they survive physically, but differ in the way they survive emotionally and in their value of time. As noted, Pi and Chuck survive physically in a…