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Jasmine Gong Mrs. Hagen English 9 Per.3 August 26. 2015 Life Of Pi:Judge the main character’s actions Do you have your own experience of an exciting adventure? Through the title of this book, you can clearly know Pi is the main character. Pi has his own exciting adventure experience with a tiger on the sea. Pi found a special and profound relationship with this tiger and they become friends. Pi made many decisions because he need alive. In this book, Pi’s father immigrants their…

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…

Religion is a universal way of explaining the unexplained; there are many variations, but each shares a common theme of connecting people to a higher power and explaining man’s purpose and place in the world. Religion is a significant reoccurring theme in Life of Pi by Yann Martel: the story of a boy named Pi who embarks on a spiritual adventure alone in the Pacific with his only company being a large Bengal tiger. Before this journey, Pi lived a simple life in India as the son of a zookeeper,…

engaging enough to keep the attention of readers who may want to gain more knowledge about the history of Canada without having to read more dry scholarly articles or long drawn out history books. This is especially important as the tone of the book suggests that it was originally intended for casual readers. The book’s main strength is how easy it is to understand and read. Nelles presents Canadian history in a way that is fresh and spikes the interest of readers of all knowledge levels.…

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…

In the “life of Pi”, Piscine Molitor Patel, Pi, was stranded on a lifeboat with a 450 pound royal bengal tiger named Richard Parker, On a lifeboat, where food is scarce, Richard Parker depended on Pi to take care of him, feed him, water him, and so on. However Pi also needed Richard Parker, almost or even more to the same degree as Richard Parker needed Pi. If it were not for Richard Parker, Pi would not have survived as long as he did, more likely to have died in the first few months, let…

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…

This metaphorical similarity between Saint Nicholas and the Virgin Mary casts Christians as being realistic, moral, guiltless and acquitted from any wrongdoing. They are known as being mainly innocent, with little to no knowledge on being able to sin against God and his word. Christians in The Prioress’s Tale sustain a categorical, spiritual following for the Virgin Mary. They all worship her: And is this song maked in reverence Of Cristes mooder?” seyde this innocent. Now, certes, I wol do…

Winston Churchill once said “when you’re going through hell, keep going”. And that is exactly what Pi Patel did in The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. Pi, an Indian boy on a voyage with his family, survived the sinking of the Tsunami along with a Bengal tiger. He spent 227 long days out at sea facing many different obstacles. Throughout the story, Martel portrays the life lesson of never giving up by throwing different challenges at Pi and testing his will to survive. These obstacles prove how Pi…

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…