Dialectical Journal Of Life Of Pi

Being narrated by an older version of the main character, Life of Pi is a story about a man named Pi Patel. Most of the beginning of the novel includes all the history of his life; it introduces topics such as his major, the definition of his name, and his family. His majors are religion and Zoology, which comes back later in the book. It also gives the reader the interesting background of the meaning of his name, based off of a swimming pool. These larger topics and more were shared with the readers. A prominent part of all of this is the fact that it almost always comes back to animals.

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.

Pi is an eager, outgoing, and excitable child, dependent on his family for comfort and support. In school, his few main concerns were to prevent his schoolmates from mispronouncing his name and learning as much and as fast as he can about religion and zoology. But when the ship went down Pi is torn from his family and left alone on a lifeboat with wild animals which would make anyone believe that they weren’t going to even make it through the night. The disaster gives him a reality check which makes him realize that he has to become self-sufficient. He mourns the loss of his family and fears for his life, which any normal sane person would do but he realizes that he has to take this challenge and make the best of what he can. He finds a survival guide and emergency provisions. He had to force himself to question his on values and decides that his vegetarianism is a luxury, and he wouldn’t make it a week without teaching himself how to fish. He manages to protect himself from Richard Parker the bangle tiger that has managed to get stuck on this boat with him and take on a parental relationship with the tiger, providing him with food and keeping him in line, to protect himself as well as keeping Richard Parker alive. The devastating shipwreck turns Pi into an adult, able to fend for himself out in the world alone. Which gives him good morals, and

Yann Martel`s Life of Pi follows A journey of a young man and a Bengal tiger as they travel across the ocean in a lifeboat.Director Ang lee made many consider the book to be beautiful,but virually unflimable.Being needed to told on screen Ang lee discerned very adeptly,about Life of Pi ‘’if there is will there is a way’’.

The belief in a higher power is one of the key components in the Life of Pi and in the lives of people all over the world. This belief in a higher power or God contributes to strife including conflict between different religions, religious extremists, and the relationship between government and religion.

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

Survival is an instinct. Often times, in order to survive, people must shed a part of their innocence. For some, it may be subtle, taken in tiny bites along the way, and for others it could be in one traumatizing moment. Ang Lee, director of “The Life of Pi,” explores this theme throughout his film. Lee shows the viewer this loss in the use of imagery, lighting, and color. He takes the viewer on a journey through the eyes of Piscine Patel as his innocence and humanity slowly get chipped away and he is forced to do what is necessary to survive and the lengths he goes to to regain that lost innocence.

What happens when an Individual seeks union with divinity Where the protagonist Piscine Molitor Patel “Pi” is visited by the most extraordinary dreams, trances, visions, thoughts, sensations, and remembrances. In this 2012 American survival drama film Life Of Pi written by David Magee and directed by Ang Lee, Pi is

In the first chapter of part two, Pi describes the horrifying task of pulling Richard Parker into the lifeboat with a lifebuoy. Now, Pi is describing the cook hauling him in. Orange Juice floats to the lifeboat on a bed of bananas, as does Pi’s mother. The zebra and the sailor both have attained a broken leg from jumping into the lifeboat, and finally, the hyena and the cook are both described as maniacal, and both eat the mass of flies.

When Yann Martel tells of Pi Patel’s life story after the shipwreck, he presents it in two distinctive ways: one being with animals, and one without. As a young boy, Pi began to develop a love of animals as a result of growing up on the lands of Pondicherry Zoo, his family zoo in India. He also finds that he has a deep passion for religion. Supposedly, Life of Pi will make one believe in God, as it did to Pi in these two stories.

Beliefs are the things in life that create us as humans. They shape our opinions and how we react to situations. In the book Life of Pi, Piscine Patel must face a long and treacherous journey on a lifeboat with a Bengal Tiger, Hyena, orangutan, and a zebra after a shipping boat he and his family were on sank. There are many beliefs Pi developed in India that influenced his actions taken on the boat. The three beliefs that are revealed on the lifeboat were Pi’s ideas that god influences situations, his belief that all life is sacred and his knowledge that animals are dangerous creatures.

In this empathic response task, I assume the role of Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel, the narrator and protagonist of Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, directly after his unexpected coincidental encounter with three religious leaders on a seaside esplanade in Chapter 23, which led to the astounding revelation that Pi was not only a Christian, Muslim, or Hindu, but all three at once. This revelation prompted a heated discussion between Pi’s priest, imam, and pandit, the religious leaders whom Pi had been practicing Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism with. The heated discussion was about which religion was the ‘true religion’. I attempt to share with readers Pi’s opinion of religion and faith after the encounter by writing a diary entry from Pi’s perspective that reflects the musings of Pi Patel after the three religious leaders confronted him and demanded that he choose between being a christian, a muslim and a hindu, his opinion of religion and faith, his experiences with different religions, and how he rationalizes his decision to believe in all three religions simultaneously. In this novel, imagination helps to present an alternative perspective of religion and faith.

Imagine being Pi and knowing your whole family died in a shipwreck. You have nothing left but faith in God and a few animals. One of the animals of which is a Bengal Royal tiger named Richard Parker whose ready to pounce at any given second, and a snarling hyena with a bone shattering bite. And on top of that, having a feeling of immense aching hunger and thirst while being surrounded by nothing but a vast ocean. Not to mention the blistering heat and violent storms. In the book “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel, Pi relies on his strong religious faith to help him survive through hardships while he is stranded on the sea.

Live or die seems like an easy decision right? But imagine being in a life-or-death situation. Making decisions you thought you would never have to make in life. Most think that people that end up in a life-or-death situation should be held accountable for what they do. But people don’t think about what THEY would do if THEY were in the situation the person is in. What inhuman things would would do all just to survive.

For the fall semester of 2017, I took english 160 at the University of Illinois at Chicago with Dr. Stapleton, where we did writing and the self. During the course I have learn a significant amount about myself.  For english 160 we had 5 major assignments. The first project was a resume where I talked about my public persona. The second major project was the 500 word essay. In this project I was able to go more personal and discuss what relationships had impacted me throughout my life. After the 500 word essay, we had the first major writing project of the semester. I had to talk about experiences that had impacted me and shape my as a person. Writing project two, was about Life Of Pi who was written in 2001 by Yann Martel. In this