Yann Martel

Yann Martel’s Life of Pi documents the life of a young man who survives 227 days adrift the vast Pacific Ocean with a tiger on a life boat. Piscine Molitar Patel (Pi for short), was a simple but bright young man who was born to an Indian family. While growing up in Pondicherry India, Pi’s father maintained and operated a zoo, where he was let to roam the zoo and interact with animals and staff. Yet, due to India’s Political unrest, Pi’s family decided to move to Canada and in order to do so they…

Jasmine Gong Mrs. Hagen English 9 Per.3 August 26. 2015 Life Of Pi:Judge the main character’s actions Do you have your own experience of an exciting adventure? Through the title of this book, you can clearly know Pi is the main character. Pi has his own exciting adventure experience with a tiger on the sea. Pi found a special and profound relationship with this tiger and they become friends. Pi made many decisions because he need alive. In this book, Pi’s father immigrants their…

In the “life of Pi”, Piscine Molitor Patel, Pi, was stranded on a lifeboat with a 450 pound royal bengal tiger named Richard Parker, On a lifeboat, where food is scarce, Richard Parker depended on Pi to take care of him, feed him, water him, and so on. However Pi also needed Richard Parker, almost or even more to the same degree as Richard Parker needed Pi. If it were not for Richard Parker, Pi would not have survived as long as he did, more likely to have died in the first few months, let…

In Yann Martel's novel, “Life of Pi”, Pi’s faith proves that one’s beliefs can change the outlook on life and enhance one's understanding of the inner self. For instance, Pi is trying to understand Mr Kumar's standing of not believing when Pi thought about how “Darkness is the last thing that religion is. Religion is light” (Martel 27). Pi saw religion as the sun in his world and struggled to comprehend that at times, others do not see it the same way. Mr Kumars point of view on religion was…

Learning is always a great opportunity, learn the history of our past is even better. I had the opportunity to learn about the history of Europe. I got to know the man Charlemagne or also known as (the father of Europe). Charlemagne, born in France in April 742 DC parents Pepin the short and Bertrada of Laon. His father, the first of the Carolingians to become King. And his mother, his mother was a normal woman with no royal lineage. He was one of the most famous and powerful leaders who…

Charlemagne is believed to have been born about the year 742. He has been considered by many people an ideal ruler, and a model for other rulers. Charlemagne, also known as Charles I, was the son of King Pepin the Short. Later when he became King of the Franks, his country already occupied nearly all of modern France, all of Belgium and the Netherlands, most of Switzerland, and large areas of Germany. To expand the country even more he added Saxony, Bavaria, large parts of Austria, the Kingdom…

Charlemagne, who was also known as Charles the Great was born around 742. He was referred to as the “Father of Europe” and the man who spurred the Carolingian Renaissance that united the Western Europe for the first time since the Roman Empire (Biography.com Editors). His father was Pepin the Short, who was the reigning King of the Franks. After the death of Charlemagne’s father, the Frankish kingdom was divided between Charlemagne and his younger brother Carloman. After the death of his…

The Carolingian dynasty was a Frankish noble family which descended directly from the Merovingian dynasty which came before it. The Merovingian dynasty was founded by Childeric I, king of the Franks from 457-481 AD, who, thanks to his many military outings against the Visigoths, Saxons and Alemanni, managed to establish a foot hold of territory for the dynasty that his son, Clovis I, would create a few years later. It wasn’t until Childeric and his wife, Basina, Queen of Thuringia’s son, Clovis…

Charlemagne was a great king. He was King of three different cultures so he ruled over Western Europe when he was king of those three different cultures. He fought a war so that he could keep his country safe. Charlemagne was king of the Lombards, Franks, and was the king of the Holy Roman empire. Charlemagne’s father was king Pepin the short and his mother was Queen Bertrada. He had four sisters and two brothers who were really nice to him, and when his father passed away in the year of 768,…

Charlemagne or Charles the Great is most famous ruler of the Middle Ages. He lived ca 742-814 and ruled over the Frankish kingdom which covered Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and a part of western Germany. He went on to conquer much of western Europe, all under a policy of friendship and cooperation with the Christian Church. He therefore greatly contributed to the expansion of the Christian Church’s power. He also introduced the basis of Feudalism and revived the political and…