Yann Martel

In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Piscine M. Patel (also known as Pi) is a teenager believing in three religions: Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. All three of these regions with their respective gods and deities have teached Pi morality and kindness. However, when Pi’s family sells their zoo at Pondicherry, and prepares a move to Canada, he nearly loses his morality fighting for survival after their cargo ship sank in the Pacific Ocean. Sailing on a lifeboat with 4 other animals for over 200…

Marine Survival Being stuck on a boat in the middle of the ocean with people you don’t really know is hard to survive. When one deals with this situation and doesn’t have any background knowledge on anything, there's a high chance your survival rate will go down . But in the novel “The Life of Pi”, Pi was able to survive on the lifeboat because of his background knowledge on marine biology and the help of the symbolic nature of animal. The shark whales, flying fish and sea turtles played an…

Piscine Patel (known as Pi), a religious boy from Pondicherry, is part of a family who, under the motivation of India’s disastrous political state, decides to move to Canada. After the cargo ship sets sail to Canada the ship begins to sink and Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat with a hyena, orangutan, zebra and tiger, Richard Parker. All the animals die at the hands of each other, except for Richard Parker, who saves Pi from the hyena and once again from a desperate blind Frenchman at sea who…

Life Of Pi The book was born as the author described himself as hungry. This quote represents the author’s desire for a captivating story as many of his stories prior had proven fruitless. His desire to entertain his audience directed him on a journey of self reflection. The book metaphorically examines many crucial life lessons. Lessons that involve the examination of one’s own inner values. A person must learn to value these lessons in order to survive. Many people choose their…

We’ve all been known at some point in life for going to a great length to per say, get a hundred on that test or get that job you’ve always wanted. And well I believe in an unorthodox way we inherited it from our ancestors where they had to go through great lengths to be successful or even just to survive. These stories are just examples of just how far some people go to survive. For instance, the Edgar Allen Poe story where it truly shows how far some people may go to survive. The story…

What Does It Take to Be a Survivor? Imagine being in a situation where everything is life threatening and you have to escape to survive. Hamilton from "Young Surfer Girl Tells Tale of Shark Attack" became a survivor after learning to surf again but with one arm. Hyseoneo Lee's story "My Escape from North Korea" became a survivor after helping her family escape from North Korea. Aron Ralston from "Trapped" became a survivor after cutting off his arm to escape being stuck under a rock in the…

Does it pay to live a good time when in time of need of distress? I am very much familiar and aware of the movie, Life Of Pi. The movie was released in 2012, I heard form my fiends that theres was a book previously written about it too, as in many cases this goes the same for movies. Both the movie and book is about a young boy Pi Patel. He loose his mother, father and brother in a sudden hurricane storm. He is stranded on a make shift boat with a tiger. Yes, a tiger, many may question this…

A fish, confined to the small waters of a round glass bowl, encompasses something much larger than itself. The same as a tiger, unrestrained, roaming the vast jungle. And the same as a human. Every living thing must meet some form of an end. Whether this pause is believed to be peaceful and positive or painful and agonizing is based upon experience; nevertheless, it is an inevitable limit that is one day attained by all. Siddhartha, a book of self discovery by author Hermann Hesse,…

In the film Cast Away, directed by Robert Zemeckis, compulsively prompt FedEx executive Chuck Noland is on his way to Malaysia when his plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean during a storm. The sole survivor of the flight, Chuck washes ashore on a deserted island. When his efforts to sail away and contact help fail, Chuck learns how to survive on the island, where he remains for four years until he manages to escape the island. During the last scene of the film, after Chuck has returned the last…

Balram compares himself to a Buddha because he “has woken up while the rest of you are sleeping” (270-271). When the British left India in 1947, and everyone was freed from their “cage” (54), however, the “chicken coop” soon developed as society placed constraints on one’s actions. However, Balram, as the white tiger, becomes enlightened like the Buddha when he realized the existence and the possibility of escape from his current chicken coop, albeit with some sacrifices which did not outweigh…