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    Throughout Ang Lee’s writing life, Lee achieved the best Man Booker Prize by publishing The Life of Pi, a number one international bestseller. Ang Lee, on the other hand, achieved the Academy Award for Best Director. In the year of 2012, Ang Lee released the The Life of Pi. Both men strived to produce a story that grasped the audience’s attention. Ang Lee’s and Yann Martel’s version of The Life of Pi captives the reader’s or viewer’s mind by introducing a young man who admires religion, survives…

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    The novel, Life of Pi, by Yann Martel centers around an innocent, religious and vegetarian Indian boy, Pi Patel. However, when Pi finds himself stranded on the Pacific Ocean after the sinking of the Tsimtsum, and faces starvation and the possibility of death, he abandons his ethics in order to survive. When investigators asked Pi what happened on the lifeboat, Pi tells them a story with zoo animals that have survived the shipwreck as well, one of which is an adult Bengal tiger. When asked by the…

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    Superego In Life Of Pi

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    Many, when they read Life of Pi, read it only as a story. These people see the book simply as an uplifting tale of a boy overcoming Nature, taming a tiger, and surviving at sea for months. However these people only see the surface of what the book actually has to offer, instead of its true depths. Because, at its heart, Life of Pi is actually an intense allegorical tale, a psychological character study in the vein of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. Throughout the story Pi is faced with…

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    Life Of Pi Animals

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    In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, we will learn how animals and humans may share the same characteristics. According to Pi, we can see that whether it was a tiger, zebra, hyena, and an orangutan or a cook, sailor, a mother, and Pi, the story works with both sets of characters because humans and animals are very similar. Sometimes we do not realize that our actions in our everyday lives are feral but in this day and age it has become normal in society. Humans and animals are very alike, but in the end…

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    Motifs In Life Of Pi

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    Life of Pi is a fictional novel about a boy from India who, after a shipwreck, is lost at sea with a tiger. Dictionary.com defines a motif as “a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work.” Three motifs found within the text of Life of Pi are the themes of 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…

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    Fishing In Life Of Pi

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    because all of the options are life threatening. Has one decided yet? Act fast! Many people would try to kill the tiger, but one doesn’t have any weapons. Jump off the boat, then one would drown. Piscine Patel evaluated all of these options in the novel, Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Pi, short for Piscine, lived in India. He owned and ran a zoo until his family decided to sell the animals and immigrate to Canada on a ship named the Tsimtsum. During a turbulent storm, Pi is tossed overboard onto a…

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    Imagery In Life Of Pi

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    Yann Martel’s Life of Pi tells the story of a young boy, Piscine Molitor Patel, who loses his entire family and most of the animals he grew up with at the zoo his family owned, when the ship taking them to Canada sinks. Sailors threw Pi onto a life boat that held a tiger, hyena, and a zebra, which ended up saving his life instead of distracting the animals with “food” so the sailors could get on the boat safely and survive. Within his first few weeks of being on the boat the zebra and hyena both…

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    Life Of Pi Religion

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    book by named Life of Pi which features a boy’s adventurous experience alone surviving with the belief of multiple religions. In the preface martel includes the first hint of religion stating “I have a story that will make you believe in god”. Religion may seem minimal in the novel about a boy adrift if the pacific but the overlying lesson remains that the belief in religion is the solutions to many problems. Life of Pi is the story of a young indian boy Piscine Molitor Patel or “Pi” who is…

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    Survival In Life Of Pi

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    The art of getting by according to Pi Surviving in the desert is difficult but what about out in the middle of the ocean. Imagine a person all alone no one to talk to for half a year and the effects it would have on their judgement. Yann Martel is an inspirational author who understands the importance of surviving despite the odds not being in favour of the person. In his compelling novel Life of Pi, Martel demonstrates how grueling it can be to overcome the difficulties of survival, and how…

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    Bravery In Life Of Pi

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    Pi Patel, a man who finds himself stuck in a small lifeboat for over 227 days, is a fine example of a courageous character. This character comes from the book The Life of Pi by Yann Martel. In this book we see Pi's bravery portrayed in most of the book, but there are a few sections in particular where we can see Pi's audacious behavior. For example, when Pi starts to train Richard Parker, a tiger that is stuck on the life raft with him. Furthermore, when Pi asks to be baptized even though he had…

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