Admirable, Durable, Curious And Resourceful

When Pi gets stranded on the boat with the animals, this quakes his perfect reality from events going as planned to what he should do in order to stay alive.” He then had to accept the death of his parents and also his brother. pi being so haunted by the thoughts of Mortality, brought him to create mental blocks in order to eat raw meats and raw fish. The biggest obsticle he had to face was learning how to tame a Bengal tiger with no experience. “ I had to tame him. It was at that very moment i realized this necessity.” This quote conveys pi’s logical thoughts to his survival thoughts. This quote also gives pi the

Pi has been a vegetarian most of his life, he believes that animals are sacred and should not be killed for food. However, while trapped on the lifeboat, Pi begins to change his morals in order

This setting is the cause of Pi’s development of primitive instincts because it is associated with chaos and a battle with the environment. The lifeboat is floating in a barren body of water that has a lonely atmosphere, which helps portray Pi’s need to be independent. To tame the survival instincts inside of him, Pi needs to rely on his own decisions and logic. Because Richard Parker’s territory is within the lifeboat, the lifeboat represents the origin of Pi’s savagery; therefore, it’s atmosphere is tense and overpowering. The action of the passage occurs in the lifeboat because Pi needs to tame his inner tiger in the same setting where it was born. Pi discusses that he spends more time in the lifeboat after his confrontation with his brute behaviour. The raft allowed Pi to hide from his developing instincts, but now that he has tamed his savagery, he can live along side it in the

The power of imagination can be described as invincible. With the use of imagination, one can reach undefined triumphs and create a new powerful world. In the book, Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, a blooming young boy named Pi Patel begins to develop a wondrous mind that expands his knowledge, true meaning of independence and value of life. His imagination is what allows him to cope and get through his suffering. The role of his imagination and stories are extremely significant in the sense that these telling are completely

-Pi had jumped into the water to save himself from Richard Parker, but with all the sharks he hoists himself back onto the ship. -The ship sinks with no other survivors and Pi assesses the situation of the hyena, Richard Parker, the zebra, Orange Juice and him all on the boat at the same time. -Pi gives up hope that a boat is coming to rescue him. -Separated from the animals Pi observes how creatures that would never meet under ordinary circumstances interact. -The

5. The cook’s grotesque acts are important to note. In chapter 43, Pi describes the hyena as a remorseless creature that feels no disgust after making a mistake, and will even feast on it’s own kind. His actions suggest that humans resort to our basic instincts and animalistic roots when deprived of all familiarity—that humans and animals aren’t so different at

Life of Pi is a novel about a boy named Piscine Patel

Pi is forced to give up his compassion for all of earth’s creatures and in doing so gives up part of his humanity too. The existence of Richard Parker gives Pi a way to transfer his guilt for the acts he’s committed unto another being, an animal, it’s okay for Richard Parker to be savage because it is his nature he only cares about survival, therefore, it’s okay for him to commit acts that Pi would consider morally repugnant such as murdering the blind French sailor they come upon at sea. (cite) The French sailor Pi randomly comes upon in the middle of the ocean is most likely a version of the French sailor Pi refers to in his second telling of his survival story (cite) in this version of Pi’s story he recalls brutally murdering the Frenchman and even resorting to cannibalism. Pi himself cannot admit to committing such a heinous act because it goes against his core beliefs so he chooses to shift the blame to Richard Parker who is merely acting of instinct and eliminating a threat as well as providing himself with enough sustenance to continue

While the story revolved around a majestic beast the bengal tiger “Richard Parker”, whose primal instinct was to survive at all costs. While in the end it is left up to the reader which story to believe one that included animals and the other with bleak reality of human murder and cannibalism. No matter which story the reader chose it still had the overall theme of tremendous courage and desire to

In the early days on the boat there is a hyena, orangutan, and a zebra on the boat as well. The animals do not last long as all three ends up dead as measures get more desperate. Pi’s telling of the story has both realistic and unrealistic elements. The actions of Richard Parker are typical of a Bengal tiger but things such as a blind man in the middle of the sea or a carnivorous island make Pi’s story less believable. Once rescued, two insurance agents come to speak to Pi about the case of the ships crash.

He starts out with a zebra, hyena, an orangutan, and a tiger, but the animals slowly diminish leaving only Pi and Richard Parker. Pi works to tame and care for Richard Parker, and the two survive for two hundred twenty-seven days. Pi encounters a fellow French castaway who is eaten by Richard Parker (Martel 311-320). Pi also comes across a man-eating island (Martel 322-358). The events that take place are fairly far-fetched, and the probability of all of them occurring to the same person in the period of time given is even less believable. The second story, on the other hand, is a perhaps more believable retelling of the original story. Pi relates the second tale upon the request of his interviewers for “‘a story without animals’” (Martel 381). In this story the animals are replaced with human representatives including an injured Chinese sailor, a French cook, Pi’s mother, and Pi himself. The second story, like the first, begins with many passengers on the boat, but in the end it leaves only Pi to survive by himself after brutally murdering and eating the cook who killed both the sailor and Pi’s own mother (Martel 381-391). Unlike Pi’s first story, this account is dark, desperate, and harshly realistic, without any sense of hope to counter it all. After relating both of these stories to his interviewers, Pi asks them which story they think is better (Martel 398). Although the

piscine Patel was his name he gave him self a nickname "pi" because the kids would always make fun of him and say he was pissing so when he changed schools he decided to go up on the board and write down "pi" and the symbol pi so that people can remember his nickname. Pi grew up with animals as in his father was the owner of the Pondicherry botanical garden (new big zoo in India) so pi ended up majoring in religious studies and zoology. Later on in the book pi starts to get interested in different religions. He ends up practicing Hinduism catholism and Muslim and at one point he gets caught all 3 priests were walking together by the beach and they bump into pi and his family, pi got scared and the priests told the parents they were happy to have pi in their

The story would have changed had the sole surviving animal had been the zebra, orangutan, or a hyena because Pi would not have survived. Having Richard Parker as his boat mate forced Pi to stay alert at all times. If Pi had been too distracted, Richard Parker could have pounced and attacked during times of inattentiveness. Piscine also had to be a caregiver for Richard Parker inadvertently keeping him focused on something other than loneliness. Also, if an animal like the zebra or orangutan, that is relatively harmless, would have been the sole survivor, Pi would have been tempted to kill and eat them as his provided food supply dwindled away, taking away his source of entertainment.

By sharing a lifeboat, Pi had a zoomorphic arrangement with Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. At first, Pi and Richard Parker did not coexist well, but then both had to adapt to living on a lifeboat with limited supplies and together they went through traumatizing experiences, such as the storm. By going through this experience with Richard Parker, Pi noticed a bond growing between them. Pi was first scared of Richard Parker, but then as time went on, he thought of him as a friend rather than an enemy. To some degree, Pi even loves Richard Parker and sees him as a human. Once the lifeboat reached Mexico, Richard Parker disappeared into the jungle unceremoniously, which troubled Pi. Humans often expect goodbyes when someone is leaving from their life and this shows how Pi had seen Richard Parker as almost human

Furthermore, his vast knowledge of animals, having grown up at a zoo, helps him to tame Richard Parker. Pi knows tigers’ psychological thinking and exploits this by classically conditioning Richard Parker. Likewise, Pi’s experience of watching a tiger kill a goat in his early childhood taught him the fundamental lesson that ‘an animal is an animal’, enabling him to strategically and mentally survive his long and testing time at sea. In addition to that, during the early parts of Part 2, Pi comes across a survival manual, a crucial object for his continued existence. The book gives him critical information on the do’s and don’ts of survival at sea and it is hard to imagine that Pi could have survived without this book which also gave him the opportunity to write down his words which were “all he has left’’.