Diane Martel

A good cover design attracts more readers. The cover of "LIFE OF PI" has a vivid picture which reveals the main characters, Pi and Richard Parker. The main colors of this cover are blue and white. This cover in which has the peculiar motion picture, the blue background and the title with large fonts successfully appeals to the teenagers. This beautiful picture reveals the main characters and shows the main setting of story. It suggests that Pi lives on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a…

To begin with, Martel keenly outlines Pi’s round character. This method of detailed character description allows readers insight into Pi’s early life and relationship with religion and animals. In part one, readers become acquainted with Pi’s zoo life and his quandary of choosing a specific religion. With this previous knowledge of Pi’s story, reading part two would be a perplexing string of Pi’s unexplainable actions. Another important contribution of Martel’s contribution is that he does not…

Respect for Other Species It’s Important to treat other species with respect because animals have emotions and want to live a long untroubled life, they also have many similar human qualities. In the book, Life of Pi, Pi practices Hinduism, He believes taking the life of another species is immoral. The reason behind his belief is that humans are reborn another species after they die, it’s just like killing a human. Pi describes in vivid detail of how his father fed a goat to a tiger, to prove…

coexistence, overcoming fear, and religion. The book by Yann Martel has a main idea of coincidence, predominantly between the beliefs of science and religion. One of the first settings of the book, a zoo, is a representation of this main theme. The Patel family owns India’s famous Pondicherry Zoo before they try to move to Canada. The zoo is symbolic itself; hundreds of various kinds of animals live there together without conflict. Martel writes, in Chapter 32, about “surprising living…

Religion is a prominent theme throughout the novel The Life of Pi by Yann Martel. From the very inception of the story it is clear that religion plays a major role. As Francis Adirubasamy— the elderly man who originally told this story to Martel— stated, this novel is a story “that will make you believe in God,” (Martel, 3). The prominence of religion makes it clear that the “true” story in Life of Pi is the story in which the reader needs more faith in god to believe in. Throughout the novel…

Ang Lee’s beautiful film, Life of Pi, brings into question the way we see ourselves and the world we live in by touching beliefs in our life such as religion, as well as the strength within us. The film takes you on a journey through Piscine (Pi) Molitor Patels life and the life changing events that partakes within the story. As a young boy, Pi was raised in Pondicherry, India in a zoo/botanical garden owned by his father and mother. After the country is put in a state of emergency, Pi and his…

According to Yann Martel, the subtext of “Life of Pi” can be summarized by three statements; life is a story, you can choose your story and that a story with God is the better story (Renton). Although these statements seem simple at face value, they can be said to aptly cover the various themes explored in the Martel’s novel. In this essay, we will test the validity of these statements in line with the contents of “Life of Pi”. The novel can be said to demonstrate the assertions of its author. A…

In the Life of Pie by YANN MARTEL the excerpt “DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO?” felt important to the advancement of the plot. I felt that this excerpt mainly told the whole story of the book. In the zoo people wanted to find the most dangerous animal so PI father set up a booth with a curtain. In the booth was a mirror and when people opened the curtain they find out that it was them all along. In the later part of the book Pi was in a heavy predicament. He was pinned…

a more action packed tone when the Tsimsum starts to sink and before Pi learns to tame the tiger and become its friend. "As the boat suddenly started to sink everything suddenly became a chaos". This leads up to the conflict in the story. • Yann Martel uses a simile…

Optimism is seen as taking the situation and making it seem as if it isn’t as terrible as it really is. Yann Martel does this same thing in the book Life of Pi by using symbolism. Yann Martel supports the theme of choosing the “better” story by using the symbolism of animals and religion. Yann Martel uses the symbolism of animals to support the theme of choosing the “better” story. Yann Martel states, “You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality” (302). This…