Yann Martel

A hero can be defined as a person who shows exemplary courage while undergoing a quest for enlightenment. In the novel “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel, the protagonist, Pi, is considered a hero. According to Joseph Campbell, the man who created the quest pattern, a hero must undergo three distinctive parts of his or her journey for it to be considered a true quest for enlightenment. The innocence factor relates to the life the hero lived before their journey of becoming a hero begins. They normally…

the strength to fight for his life, his family legacy and the Bengal Tiger. When Pi, just like most people is caught in a situation that he could not possibly ever prepare for, it brings a special fight out in him. In the Story, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Martel displays the four stages of a hero’s journey, innocence, initiation, chaos and resolution that Pi uses to save himself from the tragic repercussions of the sinking ship. Pi goes through these stages…

In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, the main character Piscine Patel, “known to all as Pi Patel,” is a teenage Indian boy who grew up in a family-owned zoo (Martel 22). As the son of a zookeeper, Pi is around animals most of his life, which ultimately makes him aware of certain behaviors that the animals possess. For example, he recognizes that monkeys, especially Orange Juice, are friendly; whereas tigers, such as Richard Parker, were exceedingly hazardous. One day, Pi’s father unexpectedly…

Life of Pi Essay Life has tons of struggles, problems, and challenges in it that we all have to go through, but sometimes, those issues can turn into something much more. In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, we follow Piscine Molitor Patel, a young boy who goes from his home in India where his father runs a zoo to stranded in the middle of the sea on a lifeboat with a tiger. Pi has many beliefs that were formulated while he lived in India that we see appear on the lifeboat. These beliefs…

utilities to help them throughout their journey. Pi was orphaned on a lifeboat with no one but a bengali tiger as his companion however he found ways to deal with his problems and power through them. “ There was no question. Thirst pushed me on” (Martel 85).Pi’s greatest worry was thirst. He cared more about his thirst than he did an enormous bengali tiger. However, he pushed on and tried to find water on board. Although, after Pi has located and drank his water…

In “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel, the author demonstrates Pi’s savage side by having him come to terms with the fact that he had to kill to survive. The quote “It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even killing,” from the novel shows what one can get used to, even if it’s gruesome. This isn’t only a concept in the novel as it applies to real life as well. One could get used to something as atrocious as drugs. Also, many people take their privileged lives for granted and don’t…

Brady Weber 2nd hr. WL C&C 03-06-15 The first book was the Dungeon and it was written by Lynne Reid Banks. The second book is the life of Pi written by Yann Martel. In the first book that had been read was the dungeon in the book the dungeon there was a person named McLennan had got hurt mentally because his family had been killed. McLennan had started to build castle and he had add blueprints to the other blueprints of the building and new blueprint were for a new dungeon in his castle…

The Life Of Yann Martel Ibn Battuta once stated, “Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller (Kirsty). With a writing career heavily influenced by his word travels, Yann Martel’s success is a tale that proves this quote to be entirely true. Martel has been an award winning author since 1993 and has created several books that are cherished by many. His most popular work to this day is the book Life of Pi which was published in 2002 (Kuipers). Living and traveling…

Optimism is seen as taking the situation and making it seem as if it isn’t as terrible as it really is. Yann Martel does this same thing in the book Life of Pi by using symbolism. Yann Martel supports the theme of choosing the “better” story by using the symbolism of animals and religion. Yann Martel uses the symbolism of animals to support the theme of choosing the “better” story. Yann Martel states, “You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality” (302). This…

In Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi, choices inundate the story. For Piscine Molitor Patel, Pi for short, there is the choice in which story he chooses to tell, faith he chooses to believe in and choice in what moral beliefs to abide by. As for the reader, choice is just as much present if not more, with the choice to decide whether the narrator is reliable or not, choice in the better story and choice in personal moral values. Yann Martel prefaces Life of Pi with a fictitious authors note, a…