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It is scientifically proven that one's emotional state affects his or her attitude, making it the most important factor to survival. In Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, Piscine Patel, known as Pi, encounters a traumatic experience, and an incredible journey of survival. To bear the difficult conditions he endured, Pi relied on his emotional state to keep him sane through a healthy balance of different emotions, and the importance of his animalistic side. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Pi’s…

The fittest person survives! The fighting man succeeds! He who fights to fit, will survive to succeed! In Life of Pi by Yann Martel the main character Piscine, also known as Pi is on a ship when tragedy strikes, and a terrible storm sinks the ship. As the only human survivor, Pi is not alone; a tiger named Richard Parker has also found refuge on the lifeboat and so did several other animals. In the novel Life of Pi, Martel uses the animals to create a self identity out of survival by…

The Life of Pi is an interesting novel, in which the protagonist, Piscine Patel, finds himself stranded in the Pacific Ocean with a 450 lb. Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Or was he? The novel presents two stories to the reader, one in which Piscine, commonly referred to as Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with animals, and one story in which Pi finds himself stranded in the same setting, but with human counterparts, and a much more gruesome ending. The true story is the one with humans for…

In the novel Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, a The Life of Pi teaches us that the companionship in the most primal of animals indicates the close similarities man and animal contain, especially within an atmosphere that lacks civilization. Throughout the book, Yann Martel fills in this grey area between man and animal by demonstrating that when both are under the line of survival, similarities arise, which in turn helps provide an interdependent relationship between the two opposite figures.…

In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, we will learn how animals and humans may share the same characteristics. According to Pi, we can see that whether it was a tiger, zebra, hyena, and an orangutan or a cook, sailor, a mother, and Pi, the story works with both sets of characters because humans and animals are very similar. Sometimes we do not realize that our actions in our everyday lives are feral but in this day and age it has become normal in society. Humans and animals are very alike, but in the end…

“Time is an illusion that only makes us pant” (Martel, Life of Pi, 2012, p. 192), is a famous quote from the novel, Life of Pi by Yann Martel. The main character in the novel, Piscine Molitor Patel, survived the journey on a life boat, because of his ability to forget time. In this essay there are going to be discussed how Pi’s survival depended on his ability to forget time in order to survive and how time can be seen as an illusion. There are also going to discussed how we as people can…

We all have a dark side. Whether we embrace it or not, however, is another matter. In the case of Piscine Militor Patel or Pi he had no choice but to embrace his darkness in order to survive. The author Yann Martel has written a fictional story that is laced with truth in regards to overcoming Pi’s inner demon in the form of a Bengal tiger. Pi’s own inner tiger is Richard Parker. It is Richard Parker that teaches him to embrace his dark side, silence his childish fears and how to beat all odds…

The story “Axolotl” by Julio Cortázar tells us the tale of a man who slowly transforms into an animal. The relation begins with the man explaining how he met the axolotls by chance one spring day. According to the narrator, the lions and panthers from Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes, i.e., the zoo that belongs to the botanical gardens Jardin des Plantes, were his friends, but since the lions were ugly and sad and the panthers were asleep, he decides to go into the aquarium one particular morning…

What would you do if you were stranded on a single lifeboat in the middle of the ocean with a Bengal tiger for 227 days? Would you give up? Would you fight for your life? In the book, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Piscine Molitor Patel fought for his life, and was not giving up. Life of Pi is about a sixteen year old boy named Piscine Molitor Patel, who lived in Pondicherry with his family. In Pondicherry, his dad owned and ran a zoo. Then, the family decided to move to Canada for more…

To begin with, Martel keenly outlines Pi’s round character. This method of detailed character description allows readers insight into Pi’s early life and relationship with religion and animals. In part one, readers become acquainted with Pi’s zoo life and his quandary of choosing a specific religion. With this previous knowledge of Pi’s story, reading part two would be a perplexing string of Pi’s unexplainable actions. Another important contribution of Martel’s contribution is that he does not…