Man Booker Prize

Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel in 2001 displays how reality and faith shape each other and how each person has their own reality. While forming a central idea of how faith and belief can shape one's reality, Martel's crafting and organisation of the book leads readers to understand that Pi uses metaphorical animals representing him and other passengers on the lifeboat. Through these symbolic animals Pi relays his story while simultaneously buffering himself from the reality of the events…

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers. In life, you can either be a monster, or a man; and the monster always wins. To be a man is to be the lamb, innocent and dictated. To be a monster is to be the tiger, running freely and being independent. In the Tiger’s Bride, Beauty is a lamb, but she must learn to run with the tiger. In the tiger’s bride, beauty starts as an innocent girl who is consumed with pleasing her father and doing whatever…

Chapter Three: Now Pi is the one talking. Pi tells us that he was named after a swimming pool. “Mamaji”, who is Pi's uncle and a champion swimmer, and the one to name him. There we have Pi's name: Piscine Molitor Patel. Pi calls him "Mamaji”, which is a loving name for uncle in Tamil Nadu, where Pi lived in India. In this chapter, we are also familiarized with Pi’s brother Ravi, who liked to tease Mamaji. After his parents failed at swimming, Pi proves to be a dedicated pupil to Mamaji and…

Hannah Pridemore Mrs. Neu English 4 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…

Life of Pi written by Yann Martel, is a story about a boy, Pi, who gets stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean accompanied by only a tiger. The novel mainly takes place on a lifeboat. Pi was physically thrown onto the lifeboat and instinctively tried to help anyone nearby, so without thinking he pulled a tiger onto his boat. The instant the tiger arrived, Pi lept off the boat. Pi then went onto the raft that was attached to the boat. Martel uses Pi’s physical journey from the raft to the…

Trial and Error Envision surviving on a fearful island. Full of violently wild animals such as snakes and lions. Even bizarre animals like whales, donkeys, and ostriches just to name a few. In the novel Swiss Family Robinson, the family gets stranded on this island, because they are shipwrecked. While on this island, they attempt to tame a donkey and an eagle. The Robinson family eagerly selected a donkey, who was missing because of the devastating shipwreck. The donkey was relatively easy to…

Richard Parker. In addition, Richard Parker kills the hyena:“The look on its face was of terror. A massive paw landed on its shoulders…Its glazed eyes widened… The hyena shook. Its eyes went dull. It was over ” (200). Ashamed that he has just killed a man, Pi places the action onto his alternate persona Richard Parker to take away his guilt of what he has just done. When one goes against one’s morals or beliefs, it is easier to refuse the truth in any form, than it is to go on knowing what they…

Humans don 't always need to see things to understand them and believe them as real and possible. Religion, science and stories are 3 things in the life of Pi that aren 't seen but are still believed to be real and possible. Science is one of the things humans done need to see to understand and believe in. Orange juice floating towards Pi on her pile of bananas, the canivourous island and Pi surviving with Richard Parker on the boat are scientific feats that were believed by others, even if…

In a hero’s journey, there are twelve stages that must be completed.(“Stages of the Hero’s Journey”) In Yann Martel’s novel, “Life of Pi”, the protagonist of the story, Pi, was on a hero’s journey. He completed the twelve stages. Starting with his life in Pondicherry to being stranded in the ocean, Pi never gave up and made it through each stage of the journey. Stage one of a hero’s journey is Ordinary World.(“Stages of the Hero’s Journey”) This stage consists of Pi’s life in Pondicherry. He…

Throughout history, humans have always pursued stories of happy endings and gracious conclusions. From upbeat fairy tales to typical cinema portraying good overcoming evil, it is evident that we seek contentment in our everyday life. It is no question that it is human nature to want to believe in something appealing to the mind. People always side with the light side as seen since the beginning of time, heavily relying on religion and faith to provide backbones of moral foundations. The…