Gordon Allport

Introduction Life of Pi is situated against the tumultuous time of Indian history known as the Emergency. Life of Pi is suffused by a pervasive liminality. The teenaged Pi is in movement between mainlands, in the middle of religions, and in the middle of youth and adulthood, which implies that the novel is likewise a bildungsroman. The story is a kinder, more hopeful decision contrasted with the more "sensible" story. Pi is content with his life living in the zoo with his crew. He grows up…

Chapter two of Into the Jungle introduces Alfred Wallace in the Rio dos Uaupes in the Amazon, where he had been staying for about four years discovering and collecting new animals, plants, and specimen. However, on his journey back to England in 1852, a tragic fire on the ship led him to lose almost all of his discoveries. Even though he was able to salvage some of his findings and had even been able to sell some of his specimens because of his agent Samuel Stevens, he still had an urge to go…

Imagine being lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger that’s starving of hunger and having to figure out a way not to get eaten by it. Or having to train a really dangerous tiger knowing that it might attack because it’s hungry. Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, describes one full story of a kid who’s lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger, and a kid whose family passed away when they were on a boat on their way to Canada for better job opportunities. The story with…

Wondrous but Fearful Tyger William Blake’s “The Tyger” in Songs of Experience, written in 1794, describes the Tyger as “fearful” while appreciating its beauty. During this time, Blake was one of the first people to see a tiger; this inspired him to write “The Tyger” and paint the creature as a majestic but fierce being. Although the origins of the Tyger are questioned, the creator is referred to as “he” implying a male divine creator. While examining who or what created the Tyger, in addition…

Stranded, lost between your soul and the earth, stuck with two monsters, a four hundred- fifty pound Bengal Tiger and your mind. Pi Patel was an innocent sixteen year old indian boy, caught in a spiral of unfortunate events. Pi was first devastated when his parents said the family was selling the zoo and moving to Canada. Then, the ship (Tsimtsum) sunk in the Mariana’s Trench don’t think it sank here. He luckily survived, even after being trapped with Richard Parker (the Bengal Tiger) for two…

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers. In life, you can either be a monster, or a man; and the monster always wins. To be a man is to be the lamb, innocent and dictated. To be a monster is to be the tiger, running freely and being independent. In the Tiger’s Bride, Beauty is a lamb, but she must learn to run with the tiger. In the tiger’s bride, beauty starts as an innocent girl who is consumed with pleasing her father and doing whatever…

Chapter Three: Now Pi is the one talking. Pi tells us that he was named after a swimming pool. “Mamaji”, who is Pi's uncle and a champion swimmer, and the one to name him. There we have Pi's name: Piscine Molitor Patel. Pi calls him "Mamaji”, which is a loving name for uncle in Tamil Nadu, where Pi lived in India. In this chapter, we are also familiarized with Pi’s brother Ravi, who liked to tease Mamaji. After his parents failed at swimming, Pi proves to be a dedicated pupil to Mamaji and…

Hannah Pridemore Mrs. Neu English 4 Honors-Period 4 October 12, 2015 Simile: a comparison between two unlike things using like or as. Example: “Each of his claws were as sharp as a knife.” (Life of Pi, Yann Martel, pg. 108) Function: While on the boat in the Pacific Ocean, the animals aboard the boat with Pi become very hostile. The hyena rips off the zebra’s leg shaking the boat. Pi is fearful that this may cause the boat to sink. The following day the zebra dies, and the hyena goes after…

Survival of the Fittest Perseverance is key for survival because that action and thought can lead to great things. In “The Story of Keesh” and “The Life of Pi” both characters faced extreme environments that no man wants to face. Keesh and Pi use their skills to craft ideas and utilities to help them throughout their journey. Pi was orphaned on a lifeboat with no one but a bengali tiger as his companion however he found ways to deal with his problems and power through them. “ There was no…

Trial and Error Envision surviving on a fearful island. Full of violently wild animals such as snakes and lions. Even bizarre animals like whales, donkeys, and ostriches just to name a few. In the novel Swiss Family Robinson, the family gets stranded on this island, because they are shipwrecked. While on this island, they attempt to tame a donkey and an eagle. The Robinson family eagerly selected a donkey, who was missing because of the devastating shipwreck. The donkey was relatively easy to…