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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 a very intricate novel, as within it contains many examples of symbolism, each meaning something that always begins with Pi. With many twists, turns, and even shocking moments, Life of Pi is sure to bring you on an unforgetable journey. Life of Pi is an award winning novel with many examples of symbolism. Life of Pi is Yann Martel’s best selling book. It goes over many different topics and subjects, one of these is symbolism. Pi finds himself in a lifeboat with exotic animals, he…

In Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi, choices inundate the story. For Piscine Molitor Patel, Pi for short, there is the choice in which story he chooses to tell, faith he chooses to believe in and choice in what moral beliefs to abide by. As for the reader, choice is just as much present if not more, with the choice to decide whether the narrator is reliable or not, choice in the better story and choice in personal moral values. Yann Martel prefaces Life of Pi with a fictitious authors note, a…

Setting in Life of Pi: The Relationship Between Pi and the Ocean The setting of a story plays a major role in the development of the plot throughout the novel. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, the main character, Pi, is left without his family and only accompanied by an untrained Bengal tiger, Richard Parker. Surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, Pi is compelled to train the tiger for his own survival and faces several physical and spiritual challenges. The existence of these challenges is because of…

In Disgrace, there are multiple different controversies we can explore, I have found an article that explores the controversies of rape as it is discussed in the book. The article I chose is called Rape and The Foundation of Nations in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, it is written by M. Van Wyk Smith. In this article he explores how the rape of Melanie and the rape of Lucy are related to our world. He also discusses how rape is almost common in our worlds history and that it is very daring for someone…

A Tiger for Malgudi is interspersed with various incidents and characters that depict the conflict between tradition and unconventionality. The lively descriptions of villagers with their characteristic terror of the primitive man and of the tiger as “a cave-dweller and jungle beast” carry the reader back to the savage times when man’s foremost preoccupation was to save his race from utter annihilation at the hands of wild beasts. The village and the sheep are symbols of innocence and unalloyed…

Narrative in wildlife program - The Crocodile Hunter “I reckon that’s a big one.” I whispered with glee while skipping on a treacherous trail I created with sofa pillows, staring intently at an imaginary crocodile. “Crikey!” I shouted as the imaginary crocodile leapt at me with wide-open jaws. Without any hesitation, I jumped on it and wrestled it as though my life depended on it. After minutes of wild trashing, I emerged victorious, subduing the ferocious crocodile with my bare hands. “That…

It is difficult for one to find a novel that they can comprehend and connect with. It may take some people the majority of their lives to find one of those novels. I am genuinely fortunate to have found that kind of book after a mere 15 years of my life. The book I am referring to is Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. It is a riveting novel that centers on a boy, lost in the middle of the pacific ocean with nothing but his wits, his will, and a four hundred and fifty pound bengal tiger. This novel…

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.” Yann Martel mentioned this in his famous novel “Life of Pi”，a piece of literature which was then remediated into a movie in 2012. It mainly illustrates the development of the protagonist, Piscine Molitor Patel, and his legendary journey in the Pacific Ocean with an extraordinary companion, a tiger named Richard Parker. This romance narrative follows the narrative…

In the story Life of Pi Yann Martel describes the life of a young boy raised on a zoo has a life changing event in his teenage years. He speaks of his views on his life before the sinkage of the great ship that kills all of his family and the animals he grew up beside. He is left stranded in the middle of the Pacific ocean on a 26ft long lifeboat with a tiger and no possibility of being rescued. This leaves our young Pi in a state of grim thinking back on his life and questioning choices he has…