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The power of imagination can be described as invincible. With the use of imagination, one can reach undefined triumphs and create a new powerful world. In the book, Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, a blooming young boy named Pi Patel begins to develop a wondrous mind that expands his knowledge, true meaning of independence and value of life. His imagination is what allows him to cope and get through his suffering. The role of his imagination and stories are extremely significant in the sense that these telling are completely

Throughout the novel, Pi’s thoughts reveal and internal struggle between his desire to live and his own beliefs to what is morally right. Pi grows up on varying religious viewpoints because he studies different religions. His religious diversity forms a moral standard of “dignity not …depravity” (Martel 71). He values dignity and character over corruption of morals initially because he sees

“It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.” (Martel 205) This quote describes how even though Pi despaired his first killing of the fish because he took a life, he now becomes delighted at the idea of killing fish; he even has hunter’s pride now. This displays how Pi loses a part of his morality because of the decisions that he had to make in order to survive because he did not have anyone to confide in or talk to in order to stay grounded to who he is. “He gave me life, my own, but at the expense of taking one. He ripped the flesh off the man’s frame and cracked his bones. The smell of blood filled my nose. Something in me died then that has never come back to life.” (Martel 283) This is a dark moment for Pi as he experiences an awful event, which causes him to lose the morality that he had during his

Throughout Yann Martel’s Life of Pi many elements of the novel blur the lines of reality and fantasy. This leaves multiple facets of perspectives in his readers. I Patel is thrust to the forefront of a catastrophic ordeal resulting in the loss of everything he knows s and loves. As this occurs we begin to see the total brutality of survival in both stories. Martel’s phenomenal use of symbolism, dualism, and religious allegory eloquently convey this imaginative world of brutality, savagery, and thirst for survival.

In addition, Pi decides to feed a “450-pound” (Martel 61) bengal tiger named Richard Parker for his own self preservation. He acknowledges, “I had to tame him. It was at that moment that I realized this necessity…More likely the worst would happen: the simple passage of time, in which his animal toughness would easily outlast my human frailty” (Martel 164). This means that Pi fears that the fierce animal strength and power of Richard Parker would eventually kill and eat him for food.

He lived in the zoo when he was a kid. The animals surround him was not just dogs or cats. These are fierce carnivores and beautiful mammals. Pi is also a pious adherent. Moreover, he is an unique adherent, because he believes

For a book claimed as “a story that will make you believe in God,” Yann Martel’s Life of Pi does not fall too far from that claim. Being the son of Indian zoo owners, Piscine Patel always grew up in close proximity with animals. However, this could not prepare him for being adrift in a lifeboat for 277 days, with a full grown 450 pound adult bengal tiger. All the while, Pi manages to juggle being faithful to three religions at the same time. While the plot of the story may seem to grind to a complete stop early on, Martel finds a way to speed it up just in time to provide a thrilling conclusion. Pi must fight many internal conflicts, like being faithful to his religion or doing what he must in order to survive, even if it conflicts his beliefs.

Religion, Tiger, Boat: these three distinct words merge together to create a tale of survival, struggle, heartbreak, and mystery. Yann Martel sets the stage of “Life of Pi” by introducing his readers to Piscine Molitor Patel, also known as Pi, who has a passion for religion and animals. He studies and worships the beliefs of a Hindu, a Muslim, and a Christian which proves to be a feat in itself. Martel uses symbolism and imagery to connect Pi’s experience in the Pacific to his life as a whole. Throughout Pi’s adventure of self-discovery, he struggles in keeping faith his ultimate priority.

C.S. Lewis once described faith as “the art of holding onto things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.” This concept of faith is repeatedly tested throughout Yann Martel’s novel, The Life of Pi. The book follows the life of Piscine Patel, or Pi for short, and begins with his exploration of faith through multiple religions in his hometown of Pondicherry, India, and later delves into his arduous journey of being stranded at sea with a 420-pound Bengal tiger for 227 days. From his time in Pondicherry to the end of his seemingly ceaseless time at sea, he is faced with many troublesome dilemmas and life-threatening situations, all of which try the vitality of his faith and his will to live. Through the story of Pi’s life, Martel shows that, although being faced with doubt is inevitable, one must choose to overcome it with faith because constantly searching for proof to settle doubt is a hindrance to the quality of one’s life.

In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Martel emphasizes the message that one needs “another soul to cling to” (Sylvia Plath). In this novel, Martel displays the strong bond between Richard Parker and Pi, and their strong need for each other’s companionship. Thus, Martel showcases the importance of Richard Parker’s role in Life of Pi through his crucial role in Pi’s survival, Pi’s change in morality and beliefs as the story progresses, and the interview Pi has, near the end of the novel, with the Japanese reporters.

Pi is raised in Hinduism, a religion that makes him to start questioning the realities of life. He finds the contradiction in Bapu Ghandi’s statement “All religions are true” (Martel 69). As he is trapped alone in the ocean he tries to survive through various ways while still facing a hard time. His belief in God enables him to find hope as he wakes up each and every day. The manner in which Pi trusts in his belief in God raises an issue that everyone faces in their daily life from dusk to dawn. One does not have to be religious but they always hope that the day, week, month or year will be bringing something wonderful their way. In times of despair, some may give up but many live and breathe via belief.

In Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, an Indian boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean for 227 days with a tiger, named Richard Parker, to keep him company. While Pi is on the boat, he has to take care of himself and Richard Parker to avoid being killed by the tiger. Being all alone in the middle of the Pacific with a tiger strikes fear into Pi. He says, “...If your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you” (162). Fear can be best recognized as the ‘unknown’ because when we do not know something, our minds create the worst possible situation. This quote means that in order for us, as humans, to truly defeat fear at its core, we must face fear head on and disprove its existence. The more we attack fear,

In Life of Pi there is one main character who stays with the reader throughout the whole novel, Pi Patel. Pi Patel was a boy who surrounded himself with religion, he believed in Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. Believing in three religions proved to be unhelpful to Pi as people questioned his belief system. At one point three of Pi’s religious leaders meet up and argue over Pi’s beliefs, “The priest broke it when he said, with pride in his voice, ‘Piscine is a good Christian boy. I hope to see him join our choir soon.’ My parents, the pandit and the imam looked surprised. ‘You must be mistaken. He’s a good Muslim boy. He comes without fail to Friday prayer, and his knowledge of the Holy Qur’an is coming along nicely.’ So said the imam. My parents, the priest and the pandit looked incredulous. The pandit spoke. ‘You’re both wrong. He’s a good Hindu boy. I see him all the time at the temple coming for darshan and performing

Survival is the key to any species continuing to exist, many of us manage to jeopardize our state of well-being to sustain ourselves, resulting to violent motives and immoral urges. In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, character Pi Patel - stranded at sea, accompanied by animals due to a ship sinking that serves as the main purpose of the book - is a great representation of the hardships a person goes through in order to survive. By viewing through the perspectives of how all animals are dangerous by nature, the cruel acts men will do in order to live, and overlooking individual morals, Pi reveals that in a life or death situation, survival will always overshadow one's humanity. This close analysis of the theme of survival proves that it has a big role in our everyday lives, as when our life is being threatened, there are no limits an animal will go in order to survive.

Yann Martel’s Life of Pi explores the story of a young man lost at sea after the ship he and his family were aboard sunk. Throughout the book there are two “opposing” themes faith and human instinct. Pi being part of three religion makes faith and religion flow through book flawlessly. As he is aboard a boat with a Bengal tiger you can see him go from religious vegetarian to a savage animal. Pi slowly falls into his instinct and becomes more animal than man. The themes faith and instinct in the book seem to go against each other, but in fact they are intertwined. Faith and instinct are the two main themes of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi and through the book one can find that these two themes are connected.