Diane Martel

The Life Of Yann Martel Ibn Battuta once stated, “Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller (Kirsty). With a writing career heavily influenced by his word travels, Yann Martel’s success is a tale that proves this quote to be entirely true. Martel has been an award winning author since 1993 and has created several books that are cherished by many. His most popular work to this day is the book Life of Pi which was published in 2002 (Kuipers). Living and traveling…

and disappeared just like Jesus Christ. Mamaji, Pi’s close friend whom he viewed as family, tells Yann Martel that Pi has a story that will make him believe in God. Through the religious symbolism and ideas scattered throughout the entirety of Pi’s story, it makes what he was trying to convey quite clear. “But religion is more than rite and ritual. There is what the rite and ritual stand for” (Martel…

survived something everyday people wouldn’t even want to think about, which is surviving 227 days stranded at sea. During this time he discovers more about himself, and he is truly tested beyond his limits of fear and more. In the novel written by Yann Martel, there are many important symbols including; the ever so important colour orange, the animal’s in Pi’s boat and lastly the ocean because of how they all affect Pi’s life. Throughout the novel, the colour orange is a reoccurring subject…

contrasts sharply with the popular idea of relativism. In relativism, no absolute truths exist because people interpret truth differently relative to their cultural, societal, and historical context. In the book Life of Pi, author Yann Martel relates Pi’s belief in…

in and choice in what moral beliefs to abide by. As for the reader, choice is just as much present if not more, with the choice to decide whether the narrator is reliable or not, choice in the better story and choice in personal moral values. Yann Martel prefaces Life of Pi with a fictitious authors note, a make-believe author telling the story. It is within the author’s note, relating Pi’s survival to a story as a “story that will make you believe in God”, the notion of storytelling to explain…

keep fighting when they hit an obstacle in their lives. Martel uses religion in his novel Life of Pi to show his readers the significance faith in God has on survival and the will to live. The author uses religion to help the readers understand Pi as the main character before he is introduced the trauma he deals with at sea. Martel also uses faith and religion as a means of survival for Pi during his time fighting for his life at sea. Martel also uses religion to allow Pi to give his life…

killing him to have the lifeboat all to himself. However, when Pi hears the “prusten” from Richard Parker, matters change, and Pi realizes that if Richard Parker dies, he “would be left alone with despair, a foe even more formidable than a tiger” (Martel 163-4). This demonstrates how Pi had developed to think more deeply and independently when preparing to take actions. Additionally, the enclosed surrounding teaches Pi responsibility, a key component to having independence. It can be noticed…

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…

Narrative in wildlife program - The Crocodile Hunter “I reckon that’s a big one.” I whispered with glee while skipping on a treacherous trail I created with sofa pillows, staring intently at an imaginary crocodile. “Crikey!” I shouted as the imaginary crocodile leapt at me with wide-open jaws. Without any hesitation, I jumped on it and wrestled it as though my life depended on it. After minutes of wild trashing, I emerged victorious, subduing the ferocious crocodile with my bare hands. “That…

The Trials that Plague the Soul Misery loves company. This statement proves true when comparing the acclaimed works Yann Martel's Life of Pi, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and William Shakespeare's Hamlet, as all these classics contain the crucial element despair. Characters in the aforementioned novels and play, battle with deep despair and must sacrifice to survive in a world without loved ones to guide them. The characters are not the cause of their anguish, though it is the…