Symbolism In Life Of Pi, By Yann Martel

Damaged people are dangerous Because they know they can survive. This quote was said by Josephine Hart. I have chosen this quote to express the idea that people who have gone through something usually are able to find closure and get past that obstacle. “Life Of Pi by Yann Martel” describes a teenage boy named Pi whose parents died in a shipwreck. After that tragedy it landed Pi on a Lifeboat with Richard Parker a Bengal tiger, Orange Juice a Hyena and a Zebra in the Middle of the Pacific ocean.In order for Pi to survive, he has to use intelligence and creativity. Although both the film and the book show pi overcoming his obstacles. The film does not stay faithful to text Life Of Pi because there were many differences and few similarities.

When writing, authors need to think of their audience and involve an element of surprise. Authors use plot twists in their writing to help them accomplish surprising the audience, allowing them to keep their audience’s interest. Not only do plot twists help keep the audience’s attention, they also make the audience question their beliefs about what they think of the story. Authors can use this tool to advance their themes. Yann Martel uses a crazy plot twist in his book, the Life of Pi, to suggest to readers that truth is relative.

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

Symbols have been used from the beginning of civilization for communicating basic needs and used now to provide deep meanings and definitions. Throughout the whole novel, “Life of Pi”, written by Yann Martel, there are many symbols that have been proven to be significant throughout the novel. Of the many, there are three main symbols that add overall meaning to the novel: Richard Parker, Algae Island, and the color orange.

It all started when Pi wanders up to a catholic church. He enters the church and meets father Martin they sat down with tea and biscuits. Father Martin tells Pi that Jesus Christ died for human kind's sins as it wasn’t a pretty death. Pi asks several questions on "why would a god suffer?", "why would a god taint himself with death?", "why doesn't Jesus do much other than tell stories and perform some small miracles?", "why is Christ so human", the priest ended up replying with the answer 'love'. Pi can relate to the Christian belief as it falls under the suffering. Jesus Christ suffered and so did Pi. He calls out god during a storm and he calls the "god of storm" upon him. Praying to god during his journey helped him out. The suffering slowing

The idea that a story can make you believe in God is surprising to many people. Looking back at an exercise our class did before reading Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, many of my classmates disagreed that a story could have such an effect. However, Yann Martel proves us all wrong. Throughout the novel, Martel subtly explains what a story is, why people believe in stories, and how religion is an important story worth believing. Pi’s story truly is a story that will make you believe in God because it shows people the importance of believing “the better story”.

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” Certainly, the Life of Pi novel by Yann Martel describes the fears, religious struggles, and most importantly, growth of Pi Patel in one such year of struggle, as noted by Sigmund Freud. In Life of Pi, a boy tells two accounts of his isolation at sea on a lifeboat. In one of his versions of the story, Pi is on the lifeboat with a zebra, hyena, orangutan, and a tiger. In the other version, he is trapped with his mother, the cook of the ship that sunk, and a sailor on the ship who died on the lifeboat and was eaten by the cook.

Setting contributes to character development by causing characters to encounter new people, animals, and/or things which cause them to rethink their current ideologies and to develop. This is seen in Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, and William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet.

The novel Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, has many themes that are incorporated into the story. One of the main themes in the novel is survival throughout Pi’s life.

Many people believe that animals feel as many emotions as humans do. In Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Pi becomes stranded on a lifeboat with a tiger named Richard Parker, and he has to do the unthinkable to persevere. Pi lives on the ocean for months, and he survives by always doing the unthinkable. Pi believes him and Richard Parker feel love for each other, animals do not want to harm or attack, and when they are brutal they still feel love.

Do bananas really float? This is a problem that two characters in Life of Pi struggled comprehending towards the end of the the story. Life of Pi by Yann Martel is about a boy named Pi Patel that ends up stranded on a lifeboat with a tiger, in the Pacific. In Life of Pi a major key thematic statement that Yann Martel makes during Pi’s journey is that “just because things may seem unrealistic, it doesn't mean that people cannot overcome or complete a task”. Yann uses the island’s setting, Pi’s religious development, and the banana symbolism to deliver his thematic message.

The island can be compared to the Garden of Eden. Pi discovers the “black fruit” on the twisted branches of the tree of “knowledge of Good and Evil” and his illusion of a perfect island is destroyed. There is a heaven and hell type scenario with the passing of each day and entering of each night. At day the meerkats eat without having to kill and show no fear not even towards Richard Parker. At night however, the ecosystem of the island feeds on itself. Pi then realizes, “*he+ preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on the murderous island” (Martel, ). The algae island provided Pi with a protection from the struggle he had to survive on his journey across the Pacific. The island provided Pi with food such as the algae and the meerkats which he did not have while he was on the boat. It also provided Pi with shelter against storms; he also did not have that in the boat. Yet Pi still left the island because he realized to live in this island he would surely die without ever meeting another human being again. Pi left this lifestyle and chose to go with Richard Parker back into the voyage across the Pacific. The last object of symbolism is the colour orange. The colour orange is shown to be associated with survival. However, Pi has been exposed to the colour orange before through Hinduism. In Hinduism the colour orange is used to symbolize fire, when the religious

The major theme in Life of Pi is the will to live. This theme is front and center through most of the book. Pi and the animals in the lifeboat fight for their survival from the very beginning of being shipwrecked at sea. Through this theme, Martel shows that both humans and animals will go to extremes in order to survive, sometimes altering their very nature. Pi acknowledges this change in him, by stating, “I descended to a level of savagery I never imagined possible” (Martel 197). Pi is forced to desert his beliefs so that he can survive. He resorts to eating fish and turtles even though he is a vegetarian and he takes life in order to eat by killing the fish and turtles himself. Pi held these beliefs strong until his survival was at stake.

Religion impacts the world in different ways.Such as economy, culture, politics and attitude towards life.It stays with us no matter what time is it harsh time, or happy time.Charles Darwin, English Naturalist, once said, “Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.” Similarly, a few years ago, one of my friends, he suffers a depression after his brother passed away in a traffic accident.He starts to kill himself.One normal summer night, everyone is celebrating the last day of school, he decided to kill himself.But then was stopped by his mother.His mother tries to think some ways to help his son.But ran out of options, she decided to bring his son to church.And it works, my friend became more focus on religion. End up he devotes himself to god.Life of Pi by Yann Martel which talks about exploring religions and find the real you.The main character named Pi who suffers the loss of his parents and he is survivor's story for months in the Pacific ocean on a Lifeboat along with a tiger, Richard Parker. In ‘Life of Pi by Yann Martel, the use of symbols: The Algae Island, the Tsimtsum, the colour orange, and Richard Parker shape the central message of the novel. Ultimately those symbols represent pi’s spiritual journey.

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