Cory Booker

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,…

So one is stranded in the middle of the ocean on a lifeboat with a vicious Bengal tiger. Does one jump off the boat, kill the tiger, or try to create peace? One doesn’t have much time. It is a tough question because all of the options are life threatening. Has one decided yet? Act fast! Many people would try to kill the tiger, but one doesn’t have any weapons. Jump off the boat, then one would drown. Piscine Patel evaluated all of these options in the novel, Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Pi, short…

Richard Parker, a massive bengal tiger lost at sea for nearly a year with only a teenage boy to keep him company. Or is it the other way around; Pi, a teenage boy with only a tiger to share the boat with? As interesting as it is unlikely, but just who are Pi and Richard Parker? Pi, formally Piscine, grew up at his father’s zoo, the same one where Richard Parker came upon. As the story states, the tiger was initially named Thirsty because he was caught while drinking, yet there had been a…

“When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival,” claims the author of Life of Pi, Yann Martel, in the voice of his character Piscine “Pi” Patel. Pi survives as a castaway for 227 days after the cargo ship Tsimtsum sinks for an unknown reason, and takes Pi’s family with it. Now Pi must face survival with only a limited supply of food and water and the fully grown Bengal Tiger, Richard Parker, for company. Pi’s story shows the…

Animal Kingdom In society, there are many pressures to conform and follow what is popular and expected. Not following society’s rules lead to social rejection; therefore, people do not break society’s rules. In Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, Pi Patel faces the harsh reality that he needs to abandon the societal rules to survive. In fact, the most important reason Pi survived 227 days in a lifeboat is his ability to rid himself of society’s norms and tap into his primal instincts. Pi is…

In the Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses figurative language at the beginning and end of chapters two and three to show the difference between Jack’s jungle and Simon’s jungle, and to illustrate that Jack’s jungle is chaotic, whereas Simon’s jungle is innocent. Since there is no adult figure on the island, the children first establish the leader of the group, which ended up being Ralph because he summoned everyone together by using a conch. Jack was immediately destroyed by the results of…

In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Piscine M. Patel (also known as Pi) is a teenager believing in three religions: Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. All three of these regions with their respective gods and deities have teached Pi morality and kindness. However, when Pi’s family sells their zoo at Pondicherry, and prepares a move to Canada, he nearly loses his morality fighting for survival after their cargo ship sank in the Pacific Ocean. Sailing on a lifeboat with 4 other animals for over 200…

African American community in the 19th century. Booker T. Washington, who believed that African American's interests were best served by becoming farmers, land owners, and most importantly educated. He felt that work as a craftsman was an honest and honorable profession. Economic Security was a large building block, in his theory on African American advancement. Born of multi racial parents, his father was a white man and mother a slave cook. Booker T. Washington, was a man…

Marine Survival Being stuck on a boat in the middle of the ocean with people you don’t really know is hard to survive. When one deals with this situation and doesn’t have any background knowledge on anything, there's a high chance your survival rate will go down . But in the novel “The Life of Pi”, Pi was able to survive on the lifeboat because of his background knowledge on marine biology and the help of the symbolic nature of animal. The shark whales, flying fish and sea turtles played an…

Yann Martel wrote a story named The Life of Pi , which is about a boy named Pi, who uses his his bravery and intelligence to survive. He is stranded in the middle of the ocean after a shipwreck, on a lifeboat with a tiger and a hyena. For these reasons, Pi is brave and does what is necessary to survive in the middle of the ocean, he also pushes the thought if a tiger on board with him and not thinking of the tiger so he can fine food and water so he can live till a boat finds him. “ And so I…