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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 the Orangutan next. This fight was looking promising for the orangutan but eventually the hyena ends up decapitating the orangutan. The author uses a simile here to help you get a visual for what is going on during the fight aboard the boat. You are able to picture Richard Parker’s claws about to slice Pi,…

A zebra, an orangutan a hyena and a tiger? Or, a Taiwanese sailor, a mother, a French cook, and Pi? These are two stories that give the same meaning, but one tells a better story. In Life of Pi by: Yann Martel, Pi gets stuck on a lifeboat for 227 days after he is the victim of a shipwreck. He is forced to survive the harshness of the sea. After a truly incredible journey to ultimate survival, Pi tells the story of his miraculous survival in the company of a tiger to Japanese men from the…

of a tiger as the head, as it is a national symbol, and it is the national animal of Malaysia. While the tiger also indicates bravery and agility in the Malaysian culture. Whereas, I used the orangutan because it is indigenous in the island of Borneo which includes parts of Malaysia. However, the orangutan is often seemed to show happiness and fun. Moreover, I used the Malayan tapir, because it is indeed a unique creature, due to the fact it almost resembles a panda, though in my culture the…

was uncontrollable and ruthless, Pi finally narrates what happened to the boat and what it felt like to sink with his parent un aware of what’s happening and how he found himself with a orangutan and a zebra to summarize very quickly The hyena which snuck up on to the boat ate the zebra and the tiger ate the orangutan and the hyena Pi fights the tiger for dominants of the area but by the end they both share the place and wash up on the shores of Mexico and the tiger ran off and Pi was rushed to…

A person who is driven to live can will do whatever it takes to survive and can come back from the brink of death. In Life of Pi, Yann Martel demonstrates just how powerful inner strength of a person can be and how faith in something can keep one alive in unbelievable situations through his use of devices such as anthropomorphic characters and multiple versions within the story. As Martel opens the novel with a description of Pi’s youth, readers learn that his childhood in a zoo and with…

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…

Campbell, head of campaigns for Asia-Pacific at Greenpeace, Nestlé was buying palm oil from suppliers and from companies on the ground in Indonesia who are involved in illegal activity and whore are contributing to deforestation, to the loss of orangutan habitat and also contributing to climate…

that. In Life Of Pi, Pi tells the story of surviving the Pacific Ocean. The story that Pi used involved various animals, such as; an orangutan, zebra, hyena and a tiger. Later in the novel, Pi tells a different story to two investigators because they didn’t believe the story with the animals. Then Pi replaced the story with actual people, his mother as the orangutan, the sailor as the zebra, the cook as the hyena, and Pi as the tiger. (Martel 303-306) The second story was more…

In Leonardo Dicaprio’s speech he said, “A world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history. Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow. Climate change is real, it is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating.” Climate change may not be the biggest issue in the world, but it is a problem and is most definitely real…

A Story Without Animals In the book Life of Pi there are two different stories as to what happened after the sinking of the Tsimtsum, one with animals and one without animals. The author leaves it up to the reader to decide which story is true and which story is not. When looking at the facts in the story it should be obvious to the reader that the story without animals is the true story and that the story with animals was made up as a way for Pi to cope with the horrific events of the…