Life of Pi

Life of Pi is about a sixteen year old boy named Piscine Molitor Patel who goes by Pi from India who was in a family of zookeepers and searches for faith by following several religions. On their way to move to Canada on a cargo ship with his family and his family’s zoo animals the ship sinks and all the survivors are Pi, a hyena, an orangutan named Orange Juice, a zebra, and a tiger. As the days pass, little by little the animals die and/or eat each other until the only survivors are Pi and the…

a tricky thing. In Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi, the main character Piscine Molitor Patel truly loves God, so much so that he practices three different religions, Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. (I feel like this sentence is super long and although you added commas, it sounds like and awkward run on.) With a main character that is so involved with religion, there is no surprise that some religious themes come out of the novel. For most of the story, Pi is stranded at sea trapped in a…

ship and one boy, Pi, in a lifeboat stranded in the pacific ocean, but there are two extreme stories of survival. Which is the better and true story? The first story tells of the boy surviving in the lifeboat filled with dangerous wild beasts and him visiting a carnivorous island where the only animals were meerkats. The second story tells of the boy on the lifeboat with three other survivors but, one turns cannibalistic and consumes the two other passengers. In the book Life of Pi, by Yann…

In the story “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel, Pi comes very close to death. He suffers through hunger, dehydration, heat radiation, and has a bengal tiger on the boat. On his trip he had to overcome his vegetarian simple lifestyle and figure out how to survive. In order to survive he killed animals, killed a man, and tried to drown Richard Parker in the beginning so he wouldn’t be on the boat. (He did not succeed.) The quote that relates to this is, "When your own life is threatened, your sense of…

Martel used these two themes in Pi Patels’s journey and also throughout his struggles onboard the boat. In the beginning of the book Pi describes pieces of his childhood and how he got involved in zoology.Early in the novel he describes the beauty and his admiration for the zoo in such detail which automatically captures the readers attention.He describes the zoo as a “paradise on earth.” It is almost as if Yann Martel wanted the reader to experience the beauty Pi sees.It takes you deeper into…

In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi the reader is introduced to Piscine Patel. On route to Canada aboard the Tsimtsum with his family, the ship sank. Pi then recounts two different versions of the following events. These events closely follow the path in which Joseph Campbell dictates as the Monomyth Cycle of a Hero. The cycle is said to have three stages, separation, initiation, and return; which each have five of their own substages. This cycle bears massive resemblance to the theme of loss of…

Within us all, there is a drive to live; an instinct to survive at all costs. This instinct may push one to their limits, and cause them to do anything in order to survive. In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, this is a common theme throughout the entirety of the story. Pi explains this lifesaving instinct in the tenth chapter of the novel, “All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel…

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 the Orangutan next. This fight was…

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 meaning after the trauma he endured. In the…

Life of Pi Essay Life has tons of struggles, problems, and challenges in it that we all have to go through, but sometimes, those issues can turn into something much more. In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, we follow Piscine Molitor Patel, a young boy who goes from his home in India where his father runs a zoo to stranded in the middle of the sea on a lifeboat with a tiger. Pi has many beliefs that were formulated while he lived in India that we see appear on the lifeboat. These beliefs…