Yann Martel

In second grade I gave up eating seafood because I wanted to be a marine biologist. My logic? I didn’t want to “eat what I worked with” as I studied the ocean. Ten years later and I feel even more enthused about our oceans. For me they are still a wonder; worlds still mostly undiscovered and unknown. Although my life is not necessarily how I pictured it at age seven, there are two things that remain unchanged: I still don’t eat seafood, and I still want to be a woman in STEM. Looking back on…

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…

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…

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…

masses without priests or consecrated communion hosts... They brought me comfort, that is certain. But it was hard, oh, it was hard. Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love- but sometimes it was so hard to love,” (Martel 231). Pi is comforted by practicing religious rituals. It acts as a reminder of his old life and helps him to believe he will eventually make it to safety. Despite how hard it would have been to maintain his faith, Pi does and this keeps him…

[turtles] with the knife and [tosses them] on the floor for Richard Parker” multiple times in The Life of Pi (Martel 212); this in turn caused a sense of friendship between them. Pi tells him, “I love you, Richard Parker. If I didn’t have you now, I don’t know what I’d do. I don’t think I would make it. No, I wouldn’t. I would die of hopelessness” towards the end of their journey (Martel 236). Throughout the novel, Pi goes from referring mainly to “I” and “me” to saying things like “we came upon…

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 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…

This book is really worth a taste of the book, the beginning of Pi is an ignorant teenager, and then because the whole family to move to Canada and take the Japanese cargo ship, but unfortunately at sea, the ship Difficult to live Pi is followed by a hyena, a broken zebra, an orangutan and an adult Bengal tiger in a lifeboat, the hyena was killed after the injured zebra and orangutan, and then replaced by a tiger Pi killed the hyenas, Pi watched these things happen, but he could do nothing,…

Richard Parker, a massive bengal tiger lost at sea for nearly a year with only a teenage boy to keep him company. Or is it the other way around; Pi, a teenage boy with only a tiger to share the boat with? As interesting as it is unlikely, but just who are Pi and Richard Parker? Pi, formally Piscine, grew up at his father’s zoo, the same one where Richard Parker came upon. As the story states, the tiger was initially named Thirsty because he was caught while drinking, yet there had been a…