Mary Read

Loneliness is one of the strongest emotions to a human. It affects how a person views themselves and the world around them. This emotion has a direct impact on a person’s central belief system. It can influence the choices someone makes and if given the power, it can dictate a person’s life. In Yann Martel’s “Life of Pi”, Pi’s psychological state of loneliness causes him to negatively impact his relationship with God, contaminates Richard Parker with loneliness, and as a result leaves him with…

Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are animals living in a zoo in New York. Alex, a lion, is a main showpiece at the zoo and is very satisfied with his life in the zoo. However, Marty imagines what it would be like to escape to nature. While celebrating Marty’s birthday, Marty tells them that he wants to go to nature. The next day, Marty was missing from his zoo pen. Alex, Melman, and Gloria break out of the zoo to find Marty, but all four are eventually caught by animal control. They soon wake up…

What Role Does Richard Parker Play in Pi’s Survival? what you need here is something to warm us up to the idea of belief“The Life of Pi”, by Yann Martel is a creative story depicting the journey of a boy named Pi stranded on a lifeboat, somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, for seven long months, with an adult male Bengal Tiger. In this story, Yann Martel gives his readers a choice to make. That choice, is the choice to believe, or not believe. The choice the reader makes alters the…

What would you do if you were given a set of rules and told to listen to the rules that were given to you? You would listen to them wouldn’t you? Well not these two characters in both stories “Being Prey” and “A Sound of Thunder.” In both stories the characters did not listen to the rules which resulted in a bad future for both characters. In the first story “A Sound of Thunder” the main character was killed because he ignored what he was told to do. In the second story “Being Prey” the main…

Pi Patel grew up in Pondicherry, a city in India, where his dad owns a zoo. One day, Pi’s father decides that he wanted to move to Canada. They take a ship to Canada with all of the animals from the zoo on board. On their way to Canada, the ship crashes and sinks. Pi manages to get on a lifeboat with a few animals: a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra and a tiger. The animals begin to kill each other until there is no one left except for the tiger and Pi. Pi, stranded in the middle of the ocean with a…

Pi’s prior experience is disproven by surviving his two-hundred and twenty-seven days of companionship with the Bengal tiger in the Human Story. After all, one’s sense of reality can differ from person to person due to their varying experiences and their responses to it. Moreover, the values that the characters had throughout their life and the knowledge they earned along with it allowed the writer, Martel to, once again, demonstrate through symbols that one’s outlook of their reality would be…

depict the truth. Life of Pie was written by Yann Martel was written on September of 2001.The author worked odd jobs, writing fiction books in the background. Life of Pi was inspired by two things: India, and a review by Updike of a Brazilian novel he read ten years ago in the New York Times Review of Books. The premise of the novel (of a Jew in a lifeboat with a black panther in 1933) struck the author as also inspiring.…

In Yann Martel's novel, “Life of Pi”, Pi Notices examples of Hinduism in many things he faces on his journey, such as his journey to love god, Richard Parker, a 450 pound Bengal Tiger, and relatable Hindu stories he has grown up hearing about. Pi is a boy of 3 religions, who sets out to love God any possible way he can. He follows Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. Through a terrible accident, Pi finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with a tiger named Richard Parker. He sees many examples of…

You’re stranded in the ocean, with a Bengal tiger with many dangerous events coming towards you, trying to survive for a long time with limited supplies, Pi had to go through in the 2001 novel by Yann Martel. I’ll say a few things about what I like and dislike and whom I would recommend it too. One of the things I liked about Life of Pi is the details he used to describe nature. It helped me vividly feel like I was in the book, for an example the text “The water was shot through with…

Throughout the story, animals playing a symbolizing role was drastically used in The Life Pi by (Yann Martel). For example, the Hyena represented the Cook, the Orangutan represented Pi’s mother (Gita) , and Richard Parker represented the evil side of Pi. Thinking of the Hyena’s characteristics, it’s safe to say the Hyena reflects to the Cook in the “true story”. The Hyena and the Cook both portray selfishness. The cook was determined to sacrifice Pi for his own wants and needs, when he…