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Throughout history, humans have always pursued stories of happy endings and gracious conclusions. From upbeat fairy tales to typical cinema portraying good overcoming evil, it is evident that we seek contentment in our everyday life. It is no question that it is human nature to want to believe in something appealing to the mind. People always side with the light side as seen since the beginning of time, heavily relying on religion and faith to provide backbones of moral foundations. The…

A good cover design attracts more readers. The cover of "LIFE OF PI" has a vivid picture which reveals the main characters, Pi and Richard Parker. The main colors of this cover are blue and white. This cover in which has the peculiar motion picture, the blue background and the title with large fonts successfully appeals to the teenagers. This beautiful picture reveals the main characters and shows the main setting of story. It suggests that Pi lives on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a…

plays a very important role in this ordeal for Pi. She is is closest thing to a human and this fact provides both comfort and grief for Pi. Pi compares her to a human saying, “The poor dear looked so humanly sick! It is a particularly funny thing to read human traits in animals, especially in apes and monkeys…

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.…

The hyena killed the zebra and the orangutan tried to defend the zebra. This lead to the orangutan and zebra’s death. The tiger, Richard Parker, then killed the hyena. In the alternate story this would read as the cook killing the young Chinese sailor and Pi’s mother defending him. Pi then attacks the cook. It relates to human tragedy, because people are being killed by their own selfish ways. The cook is a good example of human tragedy. He was a cruel…

story was so good that it transformed into a Hollywood movie which director, Ang Lee tried to depict to the best of his abilities. When adapting a book into a movie, there are two things to take into consideration: Those who have read the book and those who have never read the book. The movie, in my opinion, does a great job in doing this by bringing a lot of parts from the book but leaving minor things behind. When watching the movie, I noticed a lot of similarities as well as differences the…

Life of Pi is a fictional novel written by Yann Martel. The main character of this book is Piscine Molitor Patel, known to all as Pi Patel. He’s a sixteen year old gentle vegetarian who holds religion very dear to his heart. Overall he was stranded in the Pacific ocean for 227 days with a tiger named Richard Parker. The book is divided into 3 parts, Toronto and Pondicherry, The Pacific Ocean, and Benito Juarez Infirmary, Tomatlan, Mexico. Firstly, in part one we learn that Pi lives in…

Yann Martel’s book, Life of Pi, whether the story is mostly fact or mostly fiction, presents us with a very large fact of life. It is found within two recurring motifs that are very important: adaptation and survival. Martel gives plenty of examples for both motifs using humans and animals. The lesson he is trying to teach with these two motifs is that adaptation is necessary for survival. Already in the first half of the book it is clear to the readers that Pi is a very open minded…

Humans are often considered as “higher” beings when compared to animals, but humans are ultimately animals with a set of instincts that can kick in at any given moment when put into tough situations. Yann Martel’s Life of Pi describes the life of a young Indian boy, Piscine (Pi) Molitor Patel. In his childhood, Pi’s family owns a zoo in Pondicherry, India which influences Pi to become interested in zoology, and practices multiple religions to show his devotion to his gods. In order to avoid…

Sam Beyda Ms. Agassi Summer Homework 9/9/15 Enemy Territory Enemy Territory is an excerpt from a short story that focuses on an Allied unit entering the dreaded Germany. It is written by Hanoch Bartov and told through the eyes of Elisha, a young and confused allied soldier. In this short chapter Elisha faces many difficulties that he must overcome just to keep his moral values intact. The fundamental problem the story is grappling with is the issue of revenge. Bartov is trying to…