Gordon Lish

Yann Martel’s Life of Pi encourages readers to choose between Pi’s two versions of his story at sea. However, I will argue that it is important to understand both the human and animal story. Pi’s human story is disguised by the fictional animal story in order to conceal the inhumane and savage acts of people Pi encounters at sea. Furthermore, the imaginative fabrication of Richard Parker in Pi’s animal story aids the reader in understanding the trauma and immoral actions that Pi endures on his…

A zebra, an orangutan a hyena and a tiger? Or, a Taiwanese sailor, a mother, a French cook, and Pi? These are two stories that give the same meaning, but one tells a better story. In Life of Pi by: Yann Martel, Pi gets stuck on a lifeboat for 227 days after he is the victim of a shipwreck. He is forced to survive the harshness of the sea. After a truly incredible journey to ultimate survival, Pi tells the story of his miraculous survival in the company of a tiger to Japanese men from the…

In the stories Life of Pi and “ The story of Keesh” the will to inspire in an extreme environment shows how characters survive and try to find a way to stay alive. In “ The story of Keesh” the extreme environment shows how Keesh is trying to find meat for him and his family so they can stay alive. Evidence that show the extreme environment is “ Go ye men, with the dogs and sledges, and take my trail for the better part of a day’s travel, he said there is much meat on the ice” (London 65).…

Have you ever been through a serious trauma? Many people have been and have a multitude of ways to deal with it. In the book The Life of Pi, Pi suffers an extremely traumatic experience which he copes with by making a story. The second more realistic story is the reality, the first story is Pi’s way of coping. The reasons behind this conclusion are the impracticality of the first story, the apparent use of a coping strategy, and is written to take the reader's attention. The first story,…

In ‘The Magic Drum’, it seems that the entire myth can be perfectly fit into the ideals and theory of Lillian Feder. The myth can be read as a human reaction to a stressful and possibly deadly situation, where the inhabitants will do what is necessary to survive. In this case, a famine has swept through the village of King Maseni. Turtle is the main focus of this tale as he maneuvers around trying to feed his family. The Leopard has been instructed by the king to alert him to anyone who has food…

During Part One of the book, 16 year old, Pi Patel, goes through some crucial experience/changes that puts his majors of religion and science into one. Pi Patel is young and simple boy who lives in Pondicherry,India with his family that owns a zoo. Pi’s religion is originally Hinduism but he ends up adopting two more:Islam and Christianity which many people including his family opposed. Point 1- After meeting people with different religions, Pi’s curiosity and attachment to the religions…

I chose the topic of being stranded somewhere. In “The Life of Pi” Pi get set into the sea with a tiger from a zoo. Being stranded alone is stressful enough, but being stranded with a tiger and not knowing what may happen can stress someone out to the max. Pi is a middle aged man who was a vegetarian that needed to learn to eat meat and survive. The tiger helped him learn how to kill and eat the meat from anything including humans. Pi went through so much stress that he broke and couldn’t…

Filming has already commenced for “The Walking Dead” season 7 in Peachtree City, Georgia and the fans are out searching for clues as to what’s happening next. It could also be good news for actors who are into the series and are looking for jobs. There is a “The Walking Dead” Ezekiel casting being called out. Casting calls for Ezekiel, a major “The Walking Dead” comic book character is slated to become a new ally for Rick and Alexandria. In the comic books, Ezekiel is a leader of a survivor…

that are relevant in discovering Lord Byron as a man and as a poet. Lord Byron was an influential poet in the romantic movement in the eighteenth and nineteenth century but one may not have guessed as such when he was a child. He was born George Gordon Byron on January 22, 1788 in London, England to Captain…

Ada Lovelace was the daughter of famed poet Lord Byron, and Augusta Ada Byron she was born in London on December 10, 1815. Ada was showing her gift on mathematics at a early age , also she translated and article about a invention by Charles Babbage . Ada’s mother divorced her husband 2 weeks after the baby was born a few months later lord byron left England and Ada never saw her father again . Years after that Ada’s father died in Greece when ada was 8 years old . When ada was growing up she was…