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    Life Of Pi Research Paper

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    past enabled him to survive in a lifeboat with a tiger on the Pacific Ocean for 227 days in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. One’s past can easily influence ability, personality and perspective. Based on Pi’s past, swimming skill, religion and perspective to animal profoundly give him inspiration to find the hope for survival. Swimming skill is the most essential factor to support Pi’s survival on the lifeboat in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. Pi is a good swimmer, so this basic skill he learnt in his…

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    head. “Tears flowing down my cheeks, I egged myself on until I heard a cracking sound and I no longer felt any life fighting in my hands...the flying fish was dead. It was split open and bloody on one side of it’s head, at the level of its gills.” (Martel 203) At this point in the book Pi’s superego is slowly fading, doing it’s best to fight off the id’s need for survival, but failing due to the extreme measures Pi has been put in. This sentence marks an important change in the way Pi’s mind…

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    Throughout the story, animals playing a symbolizing role was drastically used in The Life Pi by (Yann Martel). For example, the Hyena represented the Cook, the Orangutan represented Pi’s mother (Gita) , and Richard Parker represented the evil side of Pi. Thinking of the Hyena’s characteristics, it’s safe to say the Hyena reflects to the Cook in the “true story”. The Hyena and the Cook both portray selfishness. The cook was determined to sacrifice Pi for his own wants and needs, when he…

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    The two crucial stories told by Piscine Molitor Patel, the main character of the novel Life Of Pi written by Yann Martel, contain completely different characters as well as different versions of events that took place while Pi was lost at sea. The differences of these two stories unite to form a commentary on religion, specifically religious tales, and the power of storytelling. In addition to their differences unveiling observations related to people’s beliefs, the similarities between the two…

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    In Yann Martel's novel, “Life of Pi”, Pi Notices examples of Hinduism in many things he faces on his journey, such as his journey to love god, Richard Parker, a 450 pound Bengal Tiger, and relatable Hindu stories he has grown up hearing about. Pi is a boy of 3 religions, who sets out to love God any possible way he can. He follows Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. Through a terrible accident, Pi finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with a tiger named Richard Parker. He sees many examples of…

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    Believing in God can be a tricky thing. In Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi, the main character Piscine Molitor Patel truly loves God, so much so that he practices three different religions, Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. (I feel like this sentence is super long and although you added commas, it sounds like and awkward run on.) With a main character that is so involved with religion, there is no surprise that some religious themes come out of the novel. For most of the story, Pi is stranded at…

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    in unsuitable enclosures are the most obvious example. Every animal has particular habitat needs that must be met. If its enclosure is too sunny or too wet or too empty, if its perch is too high or too exposed…then the animal will not be in peace” (Martel 40). The zoo has regulations that they need to abide by in order to keep zoos clean and well…

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    and interactive piece of work to connect personal experiences with every detail provided. Aside from this, these settings additionally are what highlight and even uncover huge qualities of a character in the story. In the novel, Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, the setting plays a major role in how the reader understands and interacts with the main character, which in this story is Pi Patel. Several locations, such as the Temple hills, the Pacific Ocean, the Pondicherry Zoo, and many more consents Pi…

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    Science In Life Of Pi

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    Humans don 't always need to see things to understand them and believe them as real and possible. Religion, science and stories are 3 things in the life of Pi that aren 't seen but are still believed to be real and possible. Science is one of the things humans done need to see to understand and believe in. Orange juice floating towards Pi on her pile of bananas, the canivourous island and Pi surviving with Richard Parker on the boat are scientific feats that were believed by others, even if…

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    Life Of Pi And The Ocean

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    Setting in Life of Pi: The Relationship Between Pi and the Ocean The setting of a story plays a major role in the development of the plot throughout the novel. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, the main character, Pi, is left without his family and only accompanied by an untrained Bengal tiger, Richard Parker. Surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, Pi is compelled to train the tiger for his own survival and faces several physical and spiritual challenges. The existence of these challenges is because of…

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