Yann Martel

extreme life or death situation. When a person is in a seemingly hopeless situation will the will to survive make a person abandon religion or make his belief in god even stronger and more importantly would that person survive to tell his story? Yann Martel explores this in his novel Life of Pi. The reader follows the life of Piscine Molitor Patel through the…

options are life threatening. Has one decided yet? Act fast! Many people would try to kill the tiger, but one doesn’t have any weapons. Jump off the boat, then one would drown. Piscine Patel evaluated all of these options in the novel, Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Pi, short for Piscine, lived in India. He owned and ran a zoo until his family decided to sell the animals and immigrate to Canada on a ship named the Tsimtsum. During a turbulent storm, Pi is tossed overboard onto a lifeboat accompanied…

Imagine being lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger that’s starving of hunger and having to figure out a way not to get eaten by it. Or having to train a really dangerous tiger knowing that it might attack because it’s hungry. Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, describes one full story of a kid who’s lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger, and a kid whose family passed away when they were on a boat on their way to Canada for better job opportunities. The story with…

citizens’ shoulders, it disguises the fact that welfare can easily be swept away in the span of a second by numerous culprits. Therefore, the inner compass to seek survival is not optional, but rather essential to every self-reliant man’s survival. Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi, stresses this notion through the account of Pi Patel and his brutally desperate survival tactics to survive while lost at sea. Fighting for solace alongside his tiger companion, the main character Pi embraces the innate…

Life of Pi written by Yann Martel, is a story about a boy, Pi, who gets stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean accompanied by only a tiger. The novel mainly takes place on a lifeboat. Pi was physically thrown onto the lifeboat and instinctively tried to help anyone nearby, so without thinking he pulled a tiger onto his boat. The instant the tiger arrived, Pi lept off the boat. Pi then went onto the raft that was attached to the boat. Martel uses Pi’s physical journey from the raft to the…

In the novel Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, a The Life of Pi teaches us that the companionship in the most primal of animals indicates the close similarities man and animal contain, especially within an atmosphere that lacks civilization. Throughout the book, Yann Martel fills in this grey area between man and animal by demonstrating that when both are under the line of survival, similarities arise, which in turn helps provide an interdependent relationship between the two opposite figures.…

a human. It affects how a person views themselves and the world around them. This emotion has a direct impact on a person’s central belief system. It can influence the choices someone makes and if given the power, it can dictate a person’s life. In Yann Martel’s “Life of Pi”, Pi’s psychological state of loneliness causes him to negatively impact his relationship with God, contaminates Richard Parker with loneliness, and as a result leaves him with mental and physical signs of depression. It is…

The story of Life Of Pi by Yann Martel has truly taught me how to appreciate the little things in life. Life of Pi shows a journey of a young Indian man named Piscine Molitor Patel or “Pi” and a Bengal tiger across the ocean in a lifeboat. This story was so good that it transformed into a Hollywood movie which director, Ang Lee tried to depict to the best of his abilities. When adapting a book into a movie, there are two things to take into consideration: Those who have read the book and those…

multiple meanings or interpretations to them. Throughout the book Life of Pi there is a multitude of items that can be interpreted for much more than what is simply written in the book. In Life of Pi, Yann Martel uses symbolism to reveal the consequences of excess, the importance of hope, and naiveté. Martel uses the algae island and the meerkats to represent an…

In the story “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel, Pi comes very close to death. He suffers through hunger, dehydration, heat radiation, and has a bengal tiger on the boat. On his trip he had to overcome his vegetarian simple lifestyle and figure out how to survive. In order to survive he killed animals, killed a man, and tried to drown Richard Parker in the beginning so he wouldn’t be on the boat. (He did not succeed.) The quote that relates to this is, "When your own life is threatened, your sense of…