Lifeboat

survival, he did. He survived 7 months with a ferocious tiger on the boat. Another main factor which built Pi’s hopes a survival was his raft. Pi was a very imaginative boy, he built a raft using some of the materials and equipment he found on the lifeboat. This raft always helped him in his times of needs especially when he used to get frightened of the…

Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan Crashed in the Ocean Before They Could Make it to Howland Island. Coast Guard Itasca was waiting for the arrival of Earhart and Noonan off a little island called Howland Island. Amelia Earhart sent one last transmission to Itasca where she stated that her and Noonan thought they were close to the island, but their plane was running on the verge of empty. Soon there were no sign of the plane, according to Szalay’s website (2017) Itasca started immediately on a two…

to accept and practice other religions; Hinduism, Christianity and lastly Islam. Pi’s family decides to move to Canada to start a new life. Tragedy strikes while they’re on the freighter to Canada when a storm hits. Pi is thrown overboard onto a lifeboat along with various animals. Throughout the rest of the novel Pi and the tiger named Richard Parker are left to survive the Pacific Ocean together. Fiction is sometimes used to bring out the essence of true events. This quote, “The selective…

social rejection; therefore, people do not break society’s rules. In Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, Pi Patel faces the harsh reality that he needs to abandon the societal rules to survive. In fact, the most important reason Pi survived 227 days in a lifeboat is his ability to rid himself of society’s norms and tap into his primal instincts. Pi is incredibly religious, and his religions teach not to murder, but Pi has to kill sea animals, and hunt for his survival. When he forces himself to…

scenarios and is also the colour of one of the religion Pi follows, the “nice Hindu colour”. Richard Parker, the orange Bengal tiger, is a key symbol used In the text to explore religion and is an example of symbolism. Furthermore, many objects on the lifeboat are orange, including the life boat tarpaulin, the whistle and the life jackets. In part one of the novel Pi’s daughter is introduced as a “little brown girl”, “holding an orange cat in her arms” which adds evidence that Richard Parker’s…

of the sinking Titanic. This requires women to subject themselves to the mercy of their families to decide their fate, much in the way that fate was determined for the passengers of Titanic based on the socioeconomic class of their families. The lifeboats were filled with first class passengers (women and children) the lower second and third class women and children were left to their own accord. Laila spoke of Jack( the main hero of the Titanic movie) “Everybody wants Jack to rescue them…

warships, or indians. But, they plot as they go through. Everyone aboard it horrified by these events. Ned and Aronnax complete their plans and escape. The night they attempt it, however, The Nautilus floats into a strong maelstrom near Norway. The lifeboat is torn from the vessel. Aronnax hits his head and is knocked out. When he wakes, his friends have found shelter with a fisherman. As they wait for a boat that can take them to France, Aronnax calculates that they had traveled about 20,000…

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…

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…

the other describes the object to be drawn. How well was the object described, did the person drawing understand what was being explained? There is also the survival scenario; convey that the team airplane has crashed into the ocean and there is a lifeboat available that fits the entire team and 12 items that they will need for survival. How does the team choose the objects? How do they rank the importance of each item? Watching them work together gives you an idea of how they will work together…