10th Grade Honors Summer Work

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

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

Thread 1 The introduction of the story starts off with Patel talking about him and how he got the name ‘Pi’. Piscine Molitor Patel is named after a big, clean swimming pool in Paris that left a big impression on Mamaji when he was younger. Everyone in elementary school made fun of Patel because of his name, they would call him “Pissing Patel”, he decided to make a change, so when he went off to high school, he thought of a new nickname ‘Pi’. When he would introduce himself he would explain his nickname with math equations (π)3.14 etc to give his point on how it is pronounced.

Pi’s life before the boat crashing was full of hope and wonder. His presence was ethereal, making a purpose out of everything around him. His family ran a zoo, which gave him a tight-knit relationship with animals. Pi loved to try new things. He met new people which led to his exploration

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.

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.

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.

Born to Gita and Santosh, Piscine Molitor Patel lives an inquisitive, joyful life in Pondicherry, India. Pi’s father owns a

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.

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’.

MAN VS. SELF-pi is at a constant struggle with himself.He must decide what is more impotant to him,surviving or staying true to himself.To face his inner conflict,He creates a fear to do what he cannot make himslf do,that is Richard parker.Pi refuses to become mentally weak,because if that happens,he’ll survive subconsciously thinking god is not there.

It is difficult to talk about the Life of Pi text without making a reference to faith, and the same goes with explaining Pi’s survival. Pi’s belief in pluralism and acceptance of the three religions, Hinduism, Christianity and Islam aid his future and is a crucial part of his survival at sea. His faith in knowing “so long as god is with me, I will not die” gives him the mental strength and will power to survive his ordeal. Even in the middle of the ocean, Pi practices all his religious rituals such as ‘‘solitary masses without consecrated Communion Hosts’’

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

Everyone experiences feelings of agitation and disagreement, however, that is what can impact who we are as a person. This relation concerning the people of our world prompts us about the challenges and tests that we face each and every day, interpreting how we can grow and learn from our past hindrances. Pi Patel in the Life of Pi is introduced with individual and social forces that illustrates his personality and way of thinking, where his development affects the sequence of the novel. These complications build Pi’s character traits and hones his skills towards survival, supporting the transition of the plot. With the knowledge acquired from his childhood and attempts of survival, Pi is shown to have developed as a character throughout the course of the text. Pi’s way

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.