Orange Juice The Orangutan In Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

The Life of Pi, an award-winning novel by Yann Martel, tells the story of Pi Patel, a young boy stranded at sea with an adult Bengal tiger. Marooned on a tiny lifeboat adrift in the Pacific Ocean, Pi finds himself struggling to survive. Faced with imminent suffering and death brought on by hunger, thirst, and an unending battle with the elements, Pi must make a decision between upholding his and society’s strict set of morals and values, or letting his survival instincts take over. Through compelling language and imagery, Martel gives Pi’s conflict between morals, fear, and survival a sense of excitement, suspense, and climax.

“So, secretly, at night I would sneak down and speak to him. I’d lift the blanket up, just a little bit off the cage and stick my head under it” Stephen’s Davis’ novel, Juice is the confronting, funny, sad but truthful representation of modern teen relationships. Juice uses symbolic representation very effectively to convey the roles and relationships between the protagonist and his father. The symbols of the bird, Icarus and the birdcage portrayed key symbolic depiction of the roles and relationships throughout the play. The origin of Icarus, from Greek mythology helped to deconstruct and understand the relationship between Rodney and his father, this symbol played a major role in interpreting the play.

Pi’s father -Mr. Patel-sacrifices an animal in order to teach his children a lesson of life. He is tired of his children who stick their fingers in the animal’s cage. He wants to keep his children away from doing such dangerous things. He wants to

Humans generally face struggles in their lifetime. Such struggles could be within themselves or with someone or something else but commonly stem from some sort of opposition in lifestyle. In Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, Pi’s passion for personal survival conflicts with his moral obligations to himself internally, morphing his external character.

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.

To simply be alive consists of the acts of breathing and having blood pump through the body, but to be a human being consists of much more complexity. The nature composed of a human being involves having self sovereignty on our own emotions, opinions, desires, faiths as well as having a moral subconscious. Yet, what occurs when a situation allows an individual to react in a behaviour that doesn’t follow these defining factors of human nature? In Yann Martel 's Life of Pi, he creates the conflict of a cargo ship sinking, and the only notable survivors on the life raft consists of a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, an orangutan, and a 16-year-old Indian boy. The protagonist of the novel, Pi Patel, is faced with a personal survival conflict

Pi’s hand joining with Richard Parker’s not only shows the unity between the two in the animal story, but also shows the savagery that exists within Pi and how that brought him to survive in the

The animals on board that Pi perceives as imperative are additionally orange. Orange Juice, the matronly orangutan, floated to the lifeboat on a raft of bananas.

When one first watches the movie, one may quickly judge that the characters are in direct contrast to the colors they represent. In the movie, Tangie (orange) which means vitality with endurance plays the part of a promiscuous girl whose hatred for her mother drives her to do what she does. On further look at her character, I realize she is a true reflection of the color orange. She endures sexual abuse from her grandfather and faces abortion at a tender age but is still strong enough to overcome it and bring out her true beauty. The text also employ poems and songs to show the intensity of pain and emphasize the strength of each character and women in general.

On its surface, Martel’s Life of Pi proceeds as a far-fetched yet not completely unbelievable tale about a young Indian boy named Pi who survives after two hundred twenty-seven days on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. It is an uplifting and entertaining story, with a few themes about companionship and survival sprinkled throughout. The ending, however, reveals a second story – a more realistic and dark account replacing the animals from the beginning with crude human counterparts. Suddenly, Life of Pi becomes more than an inspiring tale and transforms into a point to be made about rationality, faith, and how storytelling correlates the two. The point of the book is not for the reader to decide which

Everyone can pick an animal that they believe describes themselves or symbolizes themselves, but in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi he takes those characteristics to a new level. The symbolism of a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan, and a tiger all contribute to the characteristics of Pi and his journey through the sea, together, on a life boat.

One of the biggest parts of the symbolism is the tiger, Richard Parker. He could be compared with many things, but I like to compare Richard Parker to Pi himself, with Richard Parker being a direct link to Pi’s sanity and wellbeing. Hindu belief includes the transferring of the soul to new bodies, and I think that perhaps Richard Parker is Pi’s soul, reincarnated into the form of a tiger. What better to symbolize Pi than a tiger? Tigers live in harsh environments that hold no remorse for them, as does Pi, living in the harsh waters of the Pacific Ocean for two hundred and twenty seven days. As it is not real reincarnation being depicted in the novel, as they both exist at the same time, it can still be used as a representation of reincarnation. The other animals the beginning may also symbolize other objects. I think that the other animals may symbolize the conflicting emotions inside of Pi. The hyena, the part of Pi that wanted to eat the other animals for food. The zebra, symbolizing the hurt part of Pi, wanting to give up. The orangutan, the part of him that wanted to defend himself and the other animals from the

In the book Life of Pi by Yann Martel, a zookeeper’s son, Piscine Molitor Patel is traveling to Canada with his family and animals on the Japanese ship Tsimtsum. Unexpectedly, the boat sinks and Pi is the only human to make it out alive. After jumping onto a lifeboat, Pi discovers he’s not alone. A zebra with a broken leg is along for the journey. After a while, Pi discovers yet another animal, a male hyena. Then floating in on a ‘throne of bananas’, Orange Juice, a female orangutan joins the group of unlikely seafarers. Things turn deadly quickly. The hyena makes quick work of the zebra, making this the first of many deaths in this story. The hyena then fixes its gaze upon Orange Juice, she attempts to defend herself but to no prevail. Before

each animal he did, has numerous answers. The hyena, zebra, tiger, and orang u tang all represented something in Pi’s religions and life, each animal had a connection somehow.

The paper will analyze how Pi demonstrates typical psychological defenses including the fear of abandonment and insecurity. It will also inspect how Pi further deals with the meaning of death as he drifts slowly across the Pacific Ocean with only a Bengal tiger for a companion.