Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

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

He is most likely frighted by this idea because he lived with animals and woke up with them every single day throughout his childhood. However when he is put in a situation where he needs to fight for survival, he needs to change his eating habits. Pi tried for a very long time to stay away from consuming animals, but at one point he realized in order to stay alive, he needed to eat his first ever animal. When reminiscing about the event he said, “You may be astonished that in such a short period of time I could go from weeping over the muffled killing of a flying fish to gleefully bludgeoning to death a dorado. I could explain it by arguing that profiting from a pitiful flying fish's navigational mistake made me shy and sorrowful, while the excitement of actively capturing a great dorado made me sanguinary and self-assured. But in point of fact the explanation lies elsewhere. It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing” (185). This line is so powerful because he truly does feel bad for the animal. Even through all of the tough times that he is enduring on the boat, he still feels really bad about

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

In 1954, psychologist Abraham Maslow created a theory of a hierarchy of 5 needs that should be met before a person is complete (“Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs”). He said that a person must fulfill each need before he could move onto the next one (“Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs”). These 5 needs have been formed into a pyramid where the bottom identifies the

Humans seem to have an innate desire for the truth. Because of this, illusion is often characterized as negative, as it convolutes the truth. However, this view is not unanimously held. Noam Chomsky once said, “If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.” Yann Martel, through his novel Life of Pi, agrees with this viewpoint.

As of right now, I do not have any children, but in my term of life, I would absolutely love to have kids. I feel like Maslow's hierarchy of needs perfectly coincides with the needs of children. The first and most basic need in Maslow's hierarchy are physiological needs. Examples of physiological needs include the necessity to satisfy hunger, thirst, and fatigue. Food, water, and sleep are the uttermost important thing kids, or just humans in general need to survive. On the next level of the hierarchy are safety needs. Kids definitely need safety in their lives. They need to know that their parents or guardians are keeping them out of danger and in a secure environment. I completely agree with the decision Maslow made to make this the second

According to the New York Times Magazine article conjugal visits a privilege, not the right because of the several reasons. The ability to have sex with a spouse is not a fundamental human right for someone who is in the prison. It is a reasonable freedom for a prisoner to lose (Klosterman, 2014). The conjugal visits apply to everyone, whatever their sexual orientation because it represents gender equality and we live in the state where first make gay marriage legal. Here, I would like to cite the Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs triangle to make my point clear.

When observing the field of psychology, among the vast expanse of subfields, the one that caught my eye the most was Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. By labeling the five most essential parts of a human’s life, they are defined and put in order from things most needed to things that come after those basic needs are met.

Abraham Maslow created the hierarchy of needs by studying and observing monkeys. He transitioned his ideas to human behavior and created one’s deficit needs. In Hemingway’s The Old Man and The Sea, the character Santiago has experienced the loss of his wife and the glory of being a fisherman. The old man is different from the rest of the fisherman, who are motivated by money and not to the craft of fishing. He is unconventional in society and isn’t affected by his financial needs. Although Santiago is mocked by society, his eyes still look young and undefeated. His imagination and aspiration of becoming the best fisherman overpower the hardships he has to face with society and nature. Through it all,

Later in the story, Pi and his family plan to move to Canada. The transportation they used was a ship, which sunk in the pacific ocean, mysteriously. Pi was allegedly the only survivor of that ship. He had to share a lifeboat with zoo animals such as a Bengal tiger, an orangutan, a zebra, a hyena. He had survive with fear of being attacked by one of those animal at any time.

Pi is a vegetarian, when they are in the ship, his mother argues with the French cook because the soup is not meatless. After the ship sink, the foods are consuming, Pi has to hunt the fish to keeps himself alive. He is afraid of killing because it is contrary to the doctrine. Several times he is hesitant to break fish’s neck, and he hides the fish’s head with the blanket. When he takes this fish’s life he is cry and feels guilty. He says, “ Lord, to think that I’m a strict vegetarian. To think that when I was a child I always shuddered when I snapped open a banana because it sounded to me like the breaking of an animal’s neck.I descended to a level of savagery I never imagined possible” (Martel 197). With time flying and experience increasing, Pi becomes a better hunter. His hunting action is more skillful, and he enjoys his meat. “ Turtles —which previously I had roughly opened up with the knife and tossed onto the floor of the boat for Richard Parker, like a bowl of hot soup—became my favorite dish” (Martel 212). He bravely fight the fear which come from the scarfing of him Hindu religion. he gets survival and keeps

An animal’s instinct to survive has been honed over millions of years to ensure the livelihood of their species. Humans also bear this instinct for survival. The evolution of humans created a focus on mental prowess, rather than brute force for survival. However, humans are put into unknown situations, the mind is rendered incapable and primal survival instincts take over. The unbelievable story, Life Of Pi, revolves around the voyage of Piscine Molitor Patel. Stranded on a lifeboat with limited supplies and a diverse group of zoo animals, Pi must survive the life as a castaway at sea. The author, Yann Martel, suggests that the desire to survive is more powerful than any set of beliefs, morals, or rationality, as shown through the loss

Firstly, Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs can be expressed in many teaching practices seen at Mt. Maria College. The Hierarchy of Needs can be defined as a theory f psychological wellbeing/ health that is very much dependent on different levels of needs. Each level requires that it be satisfied before the following levels can be addressed. For example, shown in Appendix (?) There are five prioritized levels of needs shown in a pyramid. Starting from the foundation of the pyramid and working its way to the smaller and least vital at the topmost level. These needs are what motivate our actions.

As stated by Taormina & Gao (2013), the Maslow hierarchy of needs is based on two concepts: the deficiency/lack needs and the growth desires. The primary and most fundamental four layers of the Maslow hierarchy concentrates on physical requirements, safety and security, love, and self-esteem. When individuals are unable to meet these deficiency wants, there may not be a concrete suggestion or warning, but they will feel tense, anxious, and uncomfortable. Maslow law theory suggests that the primary level of wants must comfortably get addressed before the person focuses on the higher-level needs, also known

to Canada on a Japanese cargo ship with their sons along with animals that they decided to keep when suddenly, a catastrophic storm causes the cargo ship to sink. Pi, the protagonist and main character of the story was not only the only son and member of the family to live but also the only human survivor. The young boy finds himself struggling to defeat the waves and ends up in a life boat. Pi soon realizes that he is not alone. An injured zebra, orangutan, spotted hyena, and a fearsome Bengal tiger all found