Orange Juice Quotes

Our choices can affect us by changing our personality and affect us in other ways as well. In Edward Bloor’s book Tangerine, a boy named Paul is legally blind but loves soccer. The choices that Paul makes encourage him to be more outgoing and become more of a community. The choices to join the seagulls soccer team, join the war eagles, and fighting the frost at Luis's house encouraged Paul to gain more confidence and to become part of a community.

In the novel Tangerine, Edward Bloor expresses the themes seeing and truth. He expresses seeing the truth because Paul who people think is disabled, knows the truth. He knows that his brother Erik and his friend Arthur are murderers and thieves, and that his parents pay attention to Erik and not Paul. Paul can see what his parents “can’t or won’t”.

In the book, Tangerine, by Edward Bloor there are many personal, inspirational quotes, themes, and life lessons. The theme that inspired me the most was “Always be honest with everyone, sooner or later, the truth always finds it’s way out.” This was most important for me because it relates to my life in some situations. In the book Tangerine, this theme is included multiple times, such as when Paul Fisher, the main character was told by Luis Cruz that he had gotten hit in the head with a blackjack from Arthur Bauer in orders from Erik Fisher.  

The lightning happens a lot in Tangerine and causes the Muck fires. The lightning represents how bad things happen to people in the novel Tangerine. “He was just standing there in the end zone. He had one hand on the goalpost, leaning on it, and kaboom!” (Bloor, 50) This quote shows how Mike Costello, was tragically struck by lightning and killed. Not only is death a bad thing for Mike himself and his football career, but also is very tragic for his family as well. “There really is no other time to practice, so we would a team that did not practice.” This affects the football season and the players for a short while, because they are discussing the fact on when they should practice. This is bad for the team because they have to stop their practice

As Pi reaches the second level of the hierarchy of needs, he finds himself on the level of safety he needs to figure out how to stay safe while on the life boat. While Pi was on the boat he was so scared of Richard Parker that he had jumped off the boat to go in the water, but then realizes that there are predators just as scary as Richard parker or maybe even worse that he has to avoid to staying safe. “I noticed the presence of sharks around the life boat…The sharks were makos-swift, point-snouted predators with long murderous teeth that protruded noticeable from their mouths” (Martel 179). Once Pi tries to overcome his fears and tames Richard like a zookeeper would do and once he does, he ends up having a companion that helps Pi get through the struggle to survive. Pi finds an island where he is safe and is able to regain his strength but as he finds a tooth in the algae, Pi

"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution - then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."

When the boat was searched by the investigators, there was little to prove that Pi was indeed trapped with a Bengal tiger. When Pi told Mr. Tomohiro Okamoto and his junior colleague, Mr. Atsuro Chiba, to look in the boat for proof, they did not find any traces of a tiger having being present. Instead, they found what Pi claimed to be meerkat bones that were eaten by Richard Parker after their departure from the island but what were actually bones from another pest that escaped from the sinking Tsintsum, and which was eaten by one of the lifeboat’s human inhabitants, “We have no proof they were meerkat bones” (300). The educated investigators reasoned that the bones came from the animals from the ship and that meerkats were not the likely victims.

Religious allegory is a large topic in this novel. Yann Martel parallels many characters in this novel with Religion and Religious figures. When he meets Orange Juice for the first time, he is overwhelmed with happiness. He even compares her to the 'Virgin Mary’ upon first seeing her. Pi exclaims, “Oh blessed Great Mother, Pondicherry fertility goddess, provider of milk and love, wondrous arm spread of comfort, terror of ticks, picker-up of crying ones, are you to witness this tragedy too?” (Martel, 139) The orangutan is not only a metaphor for a religious figure, but is also a metaphor for his own mother. At the end of the novel, Pi retells the story using people instead of animals, because the rescuers will not believe a story this fantastical using animals. His mother is seen through Orange Juice’s feelings and maternal actions; it was almost like she takes on the feelings and experiences (and sufferings) of the passengers on the boat. The religious allegory with the raft arises when the tiger surfaces onto the same level of the boat as Pi; where he had been hiding. With these

Milk and Honey is a book that is as beautiful as it is heart-wrenching. It is in the form of many placid yet potent poems (Alliteration), split into four sections, or chapters, of her life. Throughout the work, Rupi documents both how the people in her life hurt her and how she grows from that pain. Anybody can pick up this book and relate in some way to how she is feeling at different stages in her life, which is remarkable. Rupi learns that she is worth more than she thinks, how to recognize true love, and the importance of kindness.

Subsequently, the main event that happens is the sinking of Pi’s ship, Tsimtsum. Pi’s attempt to help his family left with him being stranded, as the cabins were flooded. As Pi was trying to find the crew he saw “Towards the bow I saw some men running in the gloom. I thought I saw some animals too, but I dismissed the sight as illusion crafted by rain and shadow.”(Martel, 101) The author leaves out how the animals escaped their secure cages,

When Pi first sees Orange Juice after the shipwreck, floating to the lifeboat on a raft made of bananas and held together by a net, he compares her

Throughout his young life, Pi has been guided by a strong set of morals and values. A strict pacifist and vegetarian, Pi never dreamed of killing an animal, especially for food. Pi states, “…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” (Martel 197). However, faced with starvation at sea, Pi must decide between adhering to his morals and satisfying his ravenous hunger when a school of flying fish descends upon the lifeboat. He chooses his own survival and decides he must butcher a fish to feed himself. Martel uses vivid details and language to convey Pi’s feelings about the necessity of violence and killing a living creature for survival. Martel conveys a sense of suspense to the reader as Pi raises his hatchet several times to

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’’.

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

“ Pi is shipwrecked not with zoo animals but with his mother, a French cook and an injured Taiwanese sailor. They drift several weeks before the cook butchers Pi’s mother and the sailor and eats parts of their flesh. Left alone with the cook, Pi stabs him to death and eats his heart and liver. ”