10th Grade Honors Summer Work

The Life of Pi is a book that focuses on the journey of a young boy named Piscine Molitor Patel while he becomes stranded at sea with the comfort of only a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Names are significant to this story because you can get more of a connection with someone if names are mentioned more than once and if a little backstory is given.

The main characters in the story Life of Pi are a boy named Piscine Molitor Patel also known as Pi, a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, and a boat. The story is about a young man who survived a shipwreck of the Tsimtsum but, lost his family. He was put into a lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, a Bengal tiger, and an orangutan. He makes it alive off the boat with the Bengal tiger, both however severely ill in two hundred and twenty-seven days. Pi made it to a hospital and was interviewed by two Japanese men who were wondering how the Tsimtsum sunk.

Throughout the novel, Pi’s thoughts reveal and internal struggle between his desire to live and his own beliefs to what is morally right. Pi grows up on varying religious viewpoints because he studies different religions. His religious diversity forms a moral standard of “dignity not …depravity” (Martel 71). He values dignity and character over corruption of morals initially because he sees

1. The main characters in Life of Pi are Piscine Molitor Patel (Pi) and Richard Parker the Bengal tiger. Pi is the protagonist he is hopeful and believes that things get better. He is very optimistic which gets him through a lot of his troubles. In the beginning of the book Pi seemed to have things the rough way and continues that way but he was very hopeful. In the beginning of his lifeboat journey he was sure things would get better but as time went by he wasn't sure anymore but he had things to remind him to keep going. I also think he became more grownup and stronger by the end of the book. Richard Parker is the tiger on the lifeboat with Pi he is there every step of the way with Pi. He helps Pi get through things. Richard Parker is very

2. One of the main conflicts of the Life of Pi is that between Pi and himself. For 227 days, Pi was at sea with thoughts to himself thinking of how he “was alone and orphaned, in the middle of the Pacific” (Martel 107). Being by yourself in the ocean with no idea of if you are going to survive can lead to negative thoughts. Especially since Pi could only rely on himself. While he did have Richard Parker, he couldn't “talk” to Richard and expect a reply. His conversations were too himself and he had to remain sane through this internal conflict. Along with this, he has a conflict with himself and his lack of knowledge on how to survive at sea. Pi had many questions on his survival like “What would I eat? What would I drink? How would I keep the sharks away? How would I keep warm? How would I know which way to go?” (Martel 147). The answers to all of his questions were things

Pi Patel’s full name is Piscine Molitor Patel, we are told that Piscine’s name is derived from the French word for “swimming pool” the inspiration for the name in the form of a family friend who had fallen in love with a pool in France and told his friend–Pi’s father–it should be the name of his newborn son. This family friend, Mr. Adirubasamy, is the one who teaches Pi to swim which ties in with the theme of survival as Pi is the only one in his family who survives thanks to his swimming abilities which Mr. Adirubasamy bestowed to him. There is also some irony in the name Piscine, in that as a child he is tauntingly called Pissing and when is stranded it occurs to him he may need to drink his own urine or ‘piss’.

With the information given to us in the first 36 chapters in the book, we learn about his journey through the first three parts of the Hero’s Journey; Ordinary Life, The Call to adventure, and the Refusal of the Call. We start off in Pi’s ordinary life, where we learn that he was raised in a zoo in Pondicherry, India. This gives us through the rest of the book of the deep respect he has for all forms of

In contrast to the background of Lord of the Flies, Pi, the main character in Life of Pi, has a relatively peaceful childhood. He grows up in the 1970s in Pondicherry, South India, during a time of peace and prosperity. Except for school bullies, he is largely ignorant of violence, bar the time his father exposed him and his brother to the dangerous tendencies of the zoo animals. Furthermore, Pi explores religion for himself, and while he does have values impressed upon him by his parents, such as not eating meat, he is largely responsible for creating his own unique set of values that revolve around three major religions.

Although the author doesn't go into much detail, the story displays many flashbacks, the most prominent being Pi's childhood. Beginning in July 2, 1977 in Pondicherry,India, Pi's father owns a zoo,which is home to many wild animals. The storyline is told in Pi's point of view as a child and an adult. The Pacific Ocean is where he spends his desertion on a life boat for two-hundred and twenty seven days. When his shipwreck comes to an end , he ends up in the Benito Juarez Infirmary ,which is located in Tomatlán, Mexico. Pi's adulthood is also mentioned to to occur in Toronto,Canada, but it is briefly mentioned.

Life of Pi is about an Indian teenager named Piscine Molitor Patel. He was named after a French swimming pool, and he changes his name to Pi after everyone started to call him "Pissing". His father is a zoo owner, and his family lives in Pondicherry, a French colony on India's eastern coast. Pi's dad decides to leave India and move his entire zoo to Canada, crossing the Pacific ocean on a Japanese cargo ship named the Tsumtsum.

In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Pi Patel and Richard Parker are the two main characters whom are followed throughout the second part of the literary work. Pi, being the main character, the one who is telling the story, and Richard, his shipwreck companion, the duo creates the theme of suffering builds love.

This novel is about faith and the fact that Pi had strong faith was very valuable because it helped him being stranded at sea. Faith helped him form a routine to keep him busy and also his prayers gave him hope. Pi’s religion provided a way of escape from the brutal reality that he was eventually going to die.

Santosh Patel is Pi’s father. He managed his zoo in India. He is raised a Hindu but he is not religious. Yann Martin uses indirect characterization to describe Santosh Patal’s characteristics. In Life of Pi, Santosh Patal is characterized as a person who being rational and irreligious in order to show how he educates his son, Pi and reveal his rational thoughts in the story.

An anonymous author figure explains that he traveled from his home in Canada to India because he was feeling restless.There, while sipping coffe in a café, he was feeling restless in the town of Pondicherry.He met an elderly man named francis adirbasamy.The man offered to tell him a story fantastic enough to give him faith in god.This the story of pi patel.The author shifts into the story itself,but not before telling that the story will be more natural if he tells it in pi’s own voice.

Second; having such strong belief in religions when in dark times. Lastly, Pi’s will to survive. There is a certain luminescence on Pi when he is given the first “challenge” in the book;