Life Of Pi Dialectical Journal

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’’.

Karanvir Dhami Ms. Yu ENG3U March 7, 2011 Symbolism in Life of Pi In Life of Pi there are many literary devices used to present the different themes in the novel. The main literary device used in Life of Pi is symbolism. Symbolism is often used to represent an object to something else, either by association or by resemblance. Most of the names of animals, objects and even humans in this novel have a symbolic meaning. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, symbolism such as pi’s name, the colour orange and the algae island, are used throughout the novel to provide Pi with protection to help him either survive or overcome his emotional pain. The mathematical pi is undefined, infinite and unable to be understood, just like Piscine Patel.

The novel is organized into three part each containing chapters. There are a total of 319 pages, which adds up to 100 chapters. The exposition began in Toronto, Canada with middle aged Pi and who have a wife, Meena and his two children, Nikhil, his son and Usha, his daughter. Then, the story goes into Pi’s younger year with his mother and father, Gita and Santosh, along with his brother Ravi. The conflict is that they are leaving to Canada because of political troubles. The first complications is that children will make fun of Pi’s name then his father teach him and his brother the danger pose by wild animals. Another complication is that he is a believer for three different religions. Pi’s parents found out and demanded to choose a single religion, but they gave in and got him his rug. Pi describes his meeting with two Mr. Kumars; one is an atheist biology teacher and the Muslim baker. Pi’s father sold the zoo animal in preparation for the movement to Canada. Pi had a confrontation with the priest, pandit, and imam about him practicing different faiths, and then he explains why he does it. The climax is when the ship sunk, leaving Pi an orphan. He now has to survive on a boat with animals on it. The hyena ate the zebra and Orange Juice the orangutan, but was eaten by Richard

In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, religion relates to his ability to survive, as Pi struggles through many different challenges that are thrown in his direction. Pi goes through daily battles while stuck on the boat that seem to last forever. In the story, Pi has to learn to adapt and overcome this war he's stuck in. During the crusades, religions get pushed around and forced into dire situations leaving them with only the hope that they will survive.

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

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

Commentary: The author’s note is the story of how Pi’s story came to life. The author meets a friend of a guy who recalls and elaborates on his journey to Canada. The description is helpful in the understanding of how and why the book was made and it’s beneficial to know where the plot line came from.

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.

-The author meets Pi’s two children and declares Pi’s story has a happy ending. Part 2: - Pi finds himself on the lifeboat, and tries to rescue Richard Parker before he realizes the danger of having a tiger on board. HE doesn’t realize that despite the danger, Parker saves him from the other animals. - The narrator returns to the night of the official sinking and tells the story of how Pi was able to escape the boat alive.

Pi’s uncle, Francis Adirubasamy, was greatly influential on Pi’s survival as he taught Pi much needed skills and unintentionally aided in developing his strong character. The technique

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

The Japanese interviewers reinforce the reoccurring theme of faith and religion at the end of the novel when Pi is saved. Soon after Pi turns to God for comfort he washes up on a beach in Mexico. The people who found him took him to their village. He was later brought to the hospital by a police car, and that’s where his story ends. Two Japanese interviewers then introduced themselves to Pi, in hope to discover the mystery as to the sinking of the ship Tsimtsum, of which he was a passenger. The interrogation begins and Pi describes his journey. As soon as he reaches the end of his story, Mr. Okamoto and Mr. Chiba discuss and comment in disbelief. After minutes of deliberation Mr. Okamoto replies with “Mr. Patel, we don’t believe your story” (324). They doubt

Pi’s life is also changed, from a boy living in India, to a deeply religious man, this great pilgrimage for Pi changes him to who he is when he tells the author about his journey from India to Mexico.

Yann Martel’s Life of Pi is a prime literary example of the major impacts the roles of minor characters have on the plot of a story. Without such characters as the protagonist’s father, uncle, and brother, the entirety of the main characters’ lives would be shifted dramatically. So much, in fact, that the events of the novel may never have occurred had these secondary characters been absent.