Mary Read

Richard Parker, a massive bengal tiger lost at sea for nearly a year with only a teenage boy to keep him company. Or is it the other way around; Pi, a teenage boy with only a tiger to share the boat with? As interesting as it is unlikely, but just who are Pi and Richard Parker? Pi, formally Piscine, grew up at his father’s zoo, the same one where Richard Parker came upon. As the story states, the tiger was initially named Thirsty because he was caught while drinking, yet there had been a…

“When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival,” claims the author of Life of Pi, Yann Martel, in the voice of his character Piscine “Pi” Patel. Pi survives as a castaway for 227 days after the cargo ship Tsimtsum sinks for an unknown reason, and takes Pi’s family with it. Now Pi must face survival with only a limited supply of food and water and the fully grown Bengal Tiger, Richard Parker, for company. Pi’s story shows the…

Animal Kingdom In society, there are many pressures to conform and follow what is popular and expected. Not following society’s rules lead to 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…

In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Piscine M. Patel (also known as Pi) is a teenager believing in three religions: Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. All three of these regions with their respective gods and deities have teached Pi morality and kindness. However, when Pi’s family sells their zoo at Pondicherry, and prepares a move to Canada, he nearly loses his morality fighting for survival after their cargo ship sank in the Pacific Ocean. Sailing on a lifeboat with 4 other animals for over 200…

Marine Survival Being stuck on a boat in the middle of the ocean with people you don’t really know is hard to survive. When one deals with this situation and doesn’t have any background knowledge on anything, there's a high chance your survival rate will go down . But in the novel “The Life of Pi”, Pi was able to survive on the lifeboat because of his background knowledge on marine biology and the help of the symbolic nature of animal. The shark whales, flying fish and sea turtles played an…

Yann Martel wrote a story named The Life of Pi , which is about a boy named Pi, who uses his his bravery and intelligence to survive. He is stranded in the middle of the ocean after a shipwreck, on a lifeboat with a tiger and a hyena. For these reasons, Pi is brave and does what is necessary to survive in the middle of the ocean, he also pushes the thought if a tiger on board with him and not thinking of the tiger so he can fine food and water so he can live till a boat finds him. “ And so I…

The first time the human story is mentioned in Life of Pi, is when Pi is being interviewed by the two Japanese officials. Pi only produces the second story to satisfy the two interviewers, by stating what the Japanese men desire to hear and are successfully able to believe. The officers cannot comprehend how Pi’s animal story can be true, so Pi creates a more upsetting and darker story. Both of the accounts begin with the sinking of the Tsimtsum. In the movie Life of Pi, when Pi reveals the…

Life of Pi Imagine walking through a zoo and seeing a 400 pound bengal tiger. Well now imagine being stranded in the middle of the Pacific ocean with that tiger named Richard Parker. This is what Piscine Patel had to do in the book Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Before he was stranded at sea, he had “training” that unexpectedly helped him survive. `One thing that helped Pi at sea was his family. To illustrate Pi says “And what of my extended family-birds,beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned.…

Piscine Patel (known as Pi), a religious boy from Pondicherry, is part of a family who, under the motivation of India’s disastrous political state, decides to move to Canada. After the cargo ship sets sail to Canada the ship begins to sink and Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat with a hyena, orangutan, zebra and tiger, Richard Parker. All the animals die at the hands of each other, except for Richard Parker, who saves Pi from the hyena and once again from a desperate blind Frenchman at sea who…

Life Of Pi The book was born as the author described himself as hungry. This quote represents the author’s desire for a captivating story as many of his stories prior had proven fruitless. His desire to entertain his audience directed him on a journey of self reflection. The book metaphorically examines many crucial life lessons. Lessons that involve the examination of one’s own inner values. A person must learn to value these lessons in order to survive. Many people choose their…