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Yann Martel, wrote an incredible novel, called Life of Pi. The Life of Pi was phenomenal. Pi Patel was stranded on the ocean, in a life boat, with a tiger, for 227 days. Surviving on nothing but faith and hope. There were two stories. One with the animals and one with the people. Everyone views these two adventures differently. Some may find the first story is better than the second, or vice versa. Which is the better story? Which story is more believable? The details in the text with the…

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…

The impact of Pi's past to his future Pi’s past enabled him to survive in a lifeboat with a tiger on the Pacific Ocean for 227 days in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. One’s past can easily influence ability, personality and perspective. Based on Pi’s past, swimming skill, religion and perspective to animal profoundly give him inspiration to find the hope for survival. Swimming skill is the most essential factor to support Pi’s survival on the lifeboat in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. Pi is a good…

with fear” (261). Pi is practically paralyzed with fear and is almost unable to perform this task, but somewhere inside of him, he finds the will. By continuing to endure this terror, he is demonstrating the power of never giving up. As he decides to man up, he says, “I made my point, feet on the gunnel, boat rolling, my single-note language blasting from the whistle, and Richard Parker moaning and gasping at the bottom of the boat” (261). Finally, Pi had trained Richard Parker. He was now the…

In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, the main character Piscine Patel, “known to all as Pi Patel,” is a teenage Indian boy who grew up in a family-owned zoo (Martel 22). As the son of a zookeeper, Pi is around animals most of his life, which ultimately makes him aware of certain behaviors that the animals possess. For example, he recognizes that monkeys, especially Orange Juice, are friendly; whereas tigers, such as Richard Parker, were exceedingly hazardous. One day, Pi’s father unexpectedly…

A 16 year-old male named Pi Patel faced a tragic event after losing his family in a sinking ship, while heading to Canada to start a new life and sell their animals from their past lives of zookeepers. Pi Patel is shipwrecked for 227 in a lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutang and a Bengal Tiger. He faces a number of challenges on this unforgettable journey including violence and fear, and discovering his true identity, but with all the challenges Pi Patel survives all odds. In another…

What is the meaning of Freedom? Can one ever be completely free? The true definition of freedom becomes a question early in the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, when Pi argues and refutes the claims relating to the cruelty and restrictiveness of a zoo enclosure. Pi claims that an animal is no more confined in its mobility by a physical cage, than, by its survival instincts in which profoundly restrict an animal’s freedom. According to Dictionary.com, freedom is “the state of being free or at…

Have you ever been alone and you wished for a friend to provide comfort and keep you going? Yann Martel, in his novel The Life of Pi, tells the story of a character who needed exactly that, given his circumstances. In his story, Martel expresses and promotes this idea through a long boat journey and some some incredible animals. Using these circumstances, Martel teaches the reader that in the face of danger, people find comfort in even the most unlikely friendships. In the beginning of the…

The state of well-being is an arbitrary condition. Though society has and continues to wrap a thin security blanket around citizens’ shoulders, it disguises the fact that welfare can easily be swept away in the span of a second by numerous culprits. Therefore, the inner compass to seek survival is not optional, but rather essential to every self-reliant man’s survival. Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi, stresses this notion through the account of Pi Patel and his brutally desperate survival tactics…

Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi focused on the life of an Indian boy named Piscine Molitor Patel, also known as Pi, deals with a different way in that language was misused. The main plotline in this novel is that Pi’s family lives in Pondicherry, India and his father is a director of the zoo, but a political problem in India forces them to sell their animals and move to Canada. On the way the cargo ship they were on sank, everyone in the Patel family, except for Pi, are lost at sea. Pi, on a…