Life of Pi

Yann Martel wrote a story named The Life of Pi , which is about a boy named Pi, who uses his his bravery and intelligence to survive. He is stranded in the middle of the ocean after a shipwreck, on a lifeboat with a tiger and a hyena. For these reasons, Pi is brave and does what is necessary to survive in the middle of the ocean, he also pushes the thought if a tiger on board with him and not thinking of the tiger so he can fine food and water so he can live till a boat finds him. “ And so I…

even uncover huge qualities of a character in the story. In the novel, Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, the setting plays a major role in how the reader understands and interacts with the main character, which in this story is Pi Patel. Several locations, such as the Temple hills, the Pacific Ocean, the Pondicherry Zoo, and many more consents Pi to adjust and build up his personality. The most significant settings that influenced Pi to follow believing in God were the three Temple Hills in the city…

Hinduism and Life of Pi are closely connected, due to their incorporation of animals in both the book and the religion. Hinduism closely incorporates animals through their gods, while in Life of Pi, Pi has a close relationship with animals and talks about them a lot throughout the story. Some examples of this are: Animals in Hinduism are very important, Hindu gods use them as vehicles (Hindu Gods/Goddesses and Their Amazing Vehicles). In Life of Pi, the author notices many statues and pictures…

The fragments Yann Martel puts together in this chapter of Life of Pi really makes the story come to life. At this point in the novel, Pi is becoming content with his surroundings. He begins by detailing the night sky, moon, and shining stars; as Pi goes on with his description we begin to see various notions of light and dark imagery. The composition of darkness infers danger, whereas light gives us a sense of faith. If Martel were to merely say “the night sky is pitch black”, we would see no…

The Theme of Life of Pi Imagine being stranded at sea for seven months with limited supplies and a Bengal Tiger being the only other castaway in the ship. Pi Patel, the protagonist of Life of Pi, has to live with these circumstances, and he miraculously survives. This story is about a young boy who grows up in a zoo, since his family owns it, and makes sense of himself through religion. One day, Pi’s father decides he is going to move the family to Canada because he believes there will be…

Life of Pi is essentially a story that strives to explain, prove, and show in detail the conscious and unconscious mind theory known as the Iceberg Theory by Sigmund Freud, a famous psychoanalyst. This theory includes three basic parts. 1, the id which essentially is the survival mode of the mind. The instinctive part. The part that is believed to be instilled in all human’s minds from day one and we fight this primitive part on a daily basis. How do we fight it you ask? Well the second part of…

A person who is driven to live can will do whatever it takes to survive and can come back from the brink of death. In Life of Pi, Yann Martel demonstrates just how powerful inner strength of a person can be and how faith in something can keep one alive in unbelievable situations through his use of devices such as anthropomorphic characters and multiple versions within the story. As Martel opens the novel with a description of Pi’s youth, readers learn that his childhood in a zoo and with…

Ian Augsburger Mr. Whitmore June 5, 2016 Period 6 Life of Pi The title, like many other great novels do, sums the story into a neat and simple package. Life of Pi reveals his whole life, from the author's observations and from Pi’s narration. It shows his ideology and religious beliefs leading up to the point of the ship’s sinking. Life of Pi can be categorized as fiction as it does not depict the truth. Life of Pie was written by Yann Martel was written on September…

In Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, the colour orange is a symbol that portrays Pi’s eventual return to safety, through the presence of various objects, animals, and a personification of Pi himself onto an unsuspecting wild creature. In essence, objects like life jackets and whistles are automatically a representation of hope and survival, however, within Life of Pi, both of these objects also appear as being the colour…

The book titled Life of Pi written by Yann Martel is an adventurous story, which gives an account of how Piscine Patel, known as Pi, experiences various adventures and misadventures in the sea. Pi is a young Indian teenager who grows up with animals being the son of the owner of a zoo. The story describes how Pi values the faiths of Hinduism, Islam and Christianity, and how he trusts in the values imparted by his family. The ghastly part of the story is the way Pi survives with a Bengal Tiger…