Power Dynamic Between A Years Old And A Bengal Tiger

The violent outbreak of Richard Parker, along with his silent departure at the end of the novel, portrays how futile it is to try to change a wild animal into a civilized being. Richard Parker seems, at first, to have experienced a spiritual breakthrough and transformation after Pi’s attempt to training. Even in the end, Pi’s ability to survive such a journey with a beastly killer seems evidence enough that Pi trained the tiger. Pi’s main goal, along with survival, is to establish a level of equality between himself

Pi is alone with Richard Parker on the lifeboat and they both starve and suffer with dehydration. Pi starts catching fishes for both of them. He always gives the biggest share to Richard Parker as he is the strongest. One day, he decides to eat the largest part. He wants to calm his desire for hunger. He does not want to share anything with Richard Parker. Pi starts eating like an animal. Pi tells, “It came as an unmistakable indication to me of how I had sunk the day I noticed, with a pinching of the heart, that I ate like an animal” (Martel 183). The innocent boy is now as dangerous as an animal that can do anything for the food. His yearning for food makes him selfish. It is in pi’s hand not to sacrifices his integrity, but he chooses to sacrifice because he knows that at this critical situation it is right to do. Even though Pi loses his integrity, he gains the power of being the strongest one on the

“Without Richard Parker, I wouldn’t be alive today to tell you my story.” The significance of this quote is that the presence of Richard saves him from the effects of loneliness. “The lower you are, the higher your mind will soar.” This quote is important because when Pi is at his lowest point, he reaches for his only remaining sources of salvation, which is his faith and imagination. “Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The element couldn’t be more simple, or the stake higher.” The quote significance is that the few that survive the ship are force to face each other in a strategic battle of wits to see who will

The tiger that Pi refers to throughout his ordeal is could be perceived as the alter-ego of himself, “The tiger killed the hyena- and the blind Frenchman- just as he killed the cook” (311). While Pi was able to use his imagination to portray a tiger as himself, Richard Parker was never more than an extension of Pi’s imagination. Richard Parker simply symbolized Pi in the real world and could never

Though Richard Parker proves vital for survival, he also reflects Pi’s character and helps further develop it throughout the novel. When first introduced, Pi was a teenaged boy curious in many different belief systems and also vegetarian. However, his experience with this tiger aboard a lifeboat after a shipwreck leads to necessary changes in Pi’s lifestyle and these dramatic changes in way of life are characterized through the tiger itself. For example, Richard Parker instinctively tears at animals and eats them in a barbaric manner in means of survival. Though Pi is disgusted by his animal-like behavior, he later resorts to the same methods of eating, “noisy, frantic, unchewing wolfing-down…exactly the way Richard Parker ate” for his own survival (Martel 225). As a previous vegetarian, Pi is not comfortable with the idea of killing animals to eat them but realizes “it is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing” (Martel 185). He even, later, uses human flesh from a passenger that Richard Parker killed for means of survival and food. He also kills birds by “[breaking] its neck [and] leveraging [their] heads backwards”, a harsh and violent murder (Martel 231). Pi’s ability to adapt to a more vicious yet necessary way of life reveals his inner animal

At the start of this book, Pi’s dad advised his son about the dangers of a tiger. Clearly his dad was not wrong when he warned him about the tiger and not about any of the other animals in the zoo. “Meeting the mentor” in Piscine’s journey was represented in this part of the book. “He returned a few seconds later carrying a goat with its legs tied.(…) Mahisha’s snarl turned into a growl deep in the throat” (Martel 25)” Piscine whispered, as the goat was placed in the cage and left all alone with the vicious tiger. Seconds later, the tiger jumps and demolishes the goat. Piscine’s mother was not pleased at all with what her husband made her son witness.

Furthermore, Pi confesses to wanting Richard Parker to live primarily for Pi’s own survival when he states, “A part of me did not want

Richard Parker, the tiger, is a symbol of Pi himself. Pi directly correlates himself with Richard Parker. If Richard Parker “give[s] up” (121) then Pi is giving up. When swimming toward the life boat Richard Parker “look[s] small and helpless” (121) much like Pi actually is. Next to the tiger, zebra, and hyena Pi is small and feeble; he has no way to defend himself against the other animals. Pi egging Richard Parker on, toward the boat; “keep[ing him] swimming” (122) shows Pi’s resilience for survival; determined for Richard Parker to survive, which is actually his determination to survive. It is often mistaken in the novel as to whether Pi is speaking of himself or of Richard Parker because they could be the same being.

IF she going to get killed she want that animals who killed her is out of love. LOve is not having hatred in your heart. SOmetimes you need to love someone by putting you out of misery. That what the tiger will do. They love everyone that is why they are creating more suffering. They are creating more suffering because they want to create a revolution. Forcing you do what they want because they care about you. That is what they are all about is to help us all. She does have problem of them being a superpower but she think it will be better than the mad king ruling over her. SHe smell victory very soon because the bears are fearful of the tiger overtaken them and ruling over them. Tasting freedom on her tongue. THis is making her feel good about ending the tyranny of the bears for good. THis freedom will come very sweet. It's like eating a nice ice-cream sundae. Is about at the end of the finishing line and can touch her future. The future without the bears telling her what to do because they think it best

With perseverance in mind, Pi was striving to adapt to the conditions of being a castaway at sea. He assembled a raft out of items in the lifeboat such as the life jackets and oars. He planned to use the raft as a backup, for example, if things got worse with Richard Parker. In addition, Richard Parker had slaughtered the hyena, thus frightening Pi, because it was only him and Richard Parker left. Pi considered many strategies, such as trying to outlast Richard Parker. As he thought about it, he realized it was a senseless idea. Pi reasoned the better approach was to tame Richard Parker. The strenuous days passed by, and Pi lost hope on any ships coming to rescue him. Pi established his own territory, and began to fish, for his rations were

I’m choosing to do my essay on bengal tigers. Tigers use respond to their environment by migrating for food. Tigers have special ligaments in there skull to help with vision. There scientific name is Panthera tigris. Adult male Bengal tigers weigh about 480 lbs and measure about 9.5 ft in length. Females are slightly smaller with an average weight of 300 lb and 8 ft in length.The hind legs of the tiger are longer than their front legs and this helps them to leap for their prey from long distances. The have sexual reproduction and usually have 3 to 4 cubs per litter. Tigers have fewer teeth than dogs or other cats. Dogs only have 42 teeth, only have 30 teeth. A tiger's tail is 3 ft in length. Tigers use their stout tails for balance when making

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’’.

Yann Martel’s book Life of Pi portrays the gripping reality Pi Patel has to endure all the while with a Bengal Tiger. In a tale of unique friendship and tragedy the two subsist out at sea for 227 days while Pi survives in fear and Richard Parker (the tiger) kept Pi’s mind occupied. Pi and Richard Parker survived together and nearly died together while being afloat. But in such close quarters Pi realizes that Richard Parker is still a predator and will kill him if necessary. This fear and Parker himself kept Pi busy whereas others might have gone insane. Without Richard Parker, Pi could not have survived. “It was not a question of him or me, but of him and me.” (Martel 164)

From a young age, Pi was taught by his father about the danger of various zoo animals and what kind of behavior is acceptable around them in order for proper security. As Pi describes in the novel, Ravi and himself were once called on by his father to learn a significant lesson, which the audience would soon learn would be greatly valuable to Pi in the future. Mr. Patel takes his sons to the cage of Mahisha, a 550-pound Bengal tiger, and proves the animal is more than simply a large, fluffy cat, but a threatening and menacing predator. To demonstrate

Pi contacted with animals when he was very young. Therefore, when he was in trouble and afraid to solve the problem, his savagery will help him. “We fight to the very end. It’s not a question of courage. Its something constitutional, and inability to let go. It maybe nothing more than life-hungry stupidity. Richard Parker started growing that very instant as if he had been waiting for me to become a worthy opponent. My chest became tight with fear”( Martel p.187). Pi finally chose to face the tiger, and save himself. He did not choose to stay until the tiger eats him. Even if he knows that it’s difficult to survive, he did not give up. Pi stayed with animals when he was a child. His curiosity made him have a great interest in animals. He might learn something from the wild animals. Moreover, if animals did something very cruel and their behavior will probably leave a deep impression about those things in Pi’s mind. Therefore, Pi’s savagery leads him to have the determination to against the tiger, Richard