The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

My Father’s Dragon is a story told from the viewpoint of a son describing a heroic adventure of his father as a young boy. The father meets an alley cat who describes how he can rescue a sad baby dragon trapped on Wild Island. With the help of the cat and quick thinking, his father is prepared to meet the wild beasts of the island. This book would be fantastic in a 3rd-grade lesson about sequencing and inferencing. The students can describe context clues and follow the timeline of the story to…

In The White Tiger, Arvind Adiga, presents a protagonist Balram Halwai who struggles to come to terms with his new identity. While working as a cook, dishcleaner and a driver, Halwai transforms himself into a master. He differentiates himself from his master through actions with consequences. Revolting against the brutality of Ashok and Pinky Madam, he is able to affirm the identity of a successful entrepreneur from a Rikshaw Puller's nameless son 'Munna'. In three years of schooling, a school…

At the beginning of the story we already became aware of the theme zoology and religion which was prominent throughout the entire novel.Yann Martel used these two themes in Pi Patels’s journey and also throughout his struggles onboard the boat. In the beginning of the book Pi describes pieces of his childhood and how he got involved in zoology.Early in the novel he describes the beauty and his admiration for the zoo in such detail which automatically captures the readers attention.He describes…

Running Wild is a play written by Samuel Adamson, adapted from the book Running Wild written by Michael Morpurgo. Running Wild is regarding a boy (girl) named Will (Lilly) who lost his father, takes a trip to Indonesia with his mom, and there is a horrific tsunami which leads to him getting astray in the jungle with an elephant called Oona. Will (Lilly) has to learn how the to pull-through the treacherous life in the jungle. The main Characters are Will, Oona, Tonk (orangutan), Charlie…

Narrative storytelling is utilised throughout the entire film as Piscine recounts the entirety of his life story to a canadian journalist and budding author. As Pi goes on to explain his journey throughout the film, it becomes increasingly unclear as to whether…

As a magical realistic narrative, Life of Pi displays “a strong sense of the phenomenal world” (Faris and Zamora, 169). The narrator’s minute delineation of sensory details involves, “entrancing magic details that cannot be explained according to the laws of the natural universe” (Faris and Zamora, 171). In his battle for survival, Pi comes to realize the futility of overcoming his ferocious enemy and the need to establish an ingenious way of coexistence, as a strategic option: “I had to tame…

In The Life of Pi, a young boy called Pi is left to fend for himself in a small lifeboat containing a Royal Bengal tiger, an adult orangutan, a ferocious hyena, and an injured zebra. They are forced to cooperate and survive along each other, but many of those animals do not survive. Eating is part of survival during the day-to-day life of everyone, but in The Life of Pi, it means much more than that. Eating becomes the most important thing in both Pi and the animals’ lives, which gives it a…

What inspires the will to survive when situated in an extreme environment? Being in a dangerous environment can cause the human body to panic, especially if they’re alone. Whether it’s being stranded out on the ocean with a tiger on the boat, living on the rim of the polar sea and having to hunt polar bears for survival, to being separated from your own parents because of a storm can be difficult to maintain your determination of surviving. Comparing “ The Lost Island of Tamarind “ and Life…

Piscine Molitor Patel, also known as Pi, the protagonist of Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, manages to survive an astonishing 227 days on an aimless life boat with the company of a 450 pound bengal tiger named Richard Parker. To survive alone with limited supplies, one must find new ways to live as well as adapt to their new surroundings. Physical health is the most important aspect of survival. Next, would be psychological (mental) health and finally spiritual wellness. These are three main aspects…

Piscine Molitor Patel was born and raised in India. It was in India where he was named after Mamaji’s (his father’s business partner) favorite swimming pool. It was in India where he came up with the nickname Pi to stop the bullies from making fun of his name. It was in India where he fell in love with God three times and with three different ways: with Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. However, Pi learned most when he was trapped on a lifeboat for 227 with a tiger. When Pi was sixteen, his…