Yann Martel's Life Of A Survivor

Pi is an eager, outgoing, and excitable child, dependent on his family for comfort and support. In school, his few main concerns were to prevent his schoolmates from mispronouncing his name and learning as much and as fast as he can about religion and zoology. But when the ship went down Pi is torn from his family and left alone on a lifeboat with wild animals which would make anyone believe that they weren’t going to even make it through the night. The disaster gives him a reality check which makes him realize that he has to become self-sufficient. He mourns the loss of his family and fears for his life, which any normal sane person would do but he realizes that he has to take this challenge and make the best of what he can. He finds a survival guide and emergency provisions. He had to force himself to question his on values and decides that his vegetarianism is a luxury, and he wouldn’t make it a week without teaching himself how to fish. He manages to protect himself from Richard Parker the bangle tiger that has managed to get stuck on this boat with him and take on a parental relationship with the tiger, providing him with food and keeping him in line, to protect himself as well as keeping Richard Parker alive. The devastating shipwreck turns Pi into an adult, able to fend for himself out in the world alone. Which gives him good morals, and

Humans have diverse habits of coping with difficulties. In Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, Pi, after having endured unimaginable circumstances, fabricates an alternate story to the original. However, the outcomes of both stories are the same; the Tsimtsum sinks, Pi's family dies, and Pi survives. As a way of coping with the tragedies he has endured, Pi creates a different story which expresses the characters prodigiously, all the while inhibiting his suffering and freeing him from his survival instincts.

“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

Whether it is surviving mentally, or physically, one must know it takes change in willpower to go out and fight for what they need. To know what one needs and to know how to get it, is what makes up a survivor. No matter the circumstances they can forget what they thought they knew to grow within their surroundings. Surviving is all about making use of their knowledge they take from their situation so they can thrive off of their circumstances, instead of failing and giving up. Resilience leads to survival because one who is willing to do things they have never done before, will save themselves in any situation because they went to different depths to save their life and maintain what they

According to the Webster’s Dictionary, the definition of survivor is someone who remains alive. However, this definition is not always accurate.Hearing the word survival reminds me of the soldiers who fight daily for our safety. Some of these men and women do not survive, unfortunately. A survivor is someone or something that remains strong and courageous through an arduous situation, even if they do not survive physically. In many works of literature, there is often a survivor. The Crucible has many characters who do not survive in the physical form; however, many survived with their moral character still intact. In the Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Mrs. Rowlandson tells her story of survival while facing unimaginable conditions.

Our world, a place of either hatred or love, peace or war, happy or sad, poor or rich, Democrats or republicans it is a place of comfort or discomfort where people are afraid to go beyond boundaries because they think they will make a mistake when really all they have to do is learn. Think of Jackie Robinson for instance, Black man breaking into the MLB and becoming the first black baseball player. Yes, It was difficult but he was up for the challenge he liked the challenge he liked the competitiveness and embracing who he was and so if things did not go his way he learned and fought back to his standards and what he thought was right and did not care what others thought. A survivor is a person with a positive attitude, and always gives the

Desperation forced him to try and move towards the safety box that was near Richard Parker who has the ability to easily attack him. Once Pi is near the safety box he illustrates the feeling of satisfaction by saying, “oh, the delight of the manufactured good, the man-made device, the created thing! That moment of material revelation brought an intensity of pleasure -- a heady mix of hope, surprise, disbelief, thrill gratitude, all crushed into one … I was positively giddy with happiness." (Martel 141). He finds water in the box as he hoped for and this has brought him a confidence boost. Even though Pi completed the first of many stages in the hierarchy, he is still stranded in the ocean. He acknowledges the fact that animals or very territorial and in turn marks his own territory within the boat. Pi insists that, “I had to fix in his mind that the top of the tarpaulin and the bow of the boat, bordered by the neutral territory of the middle bench, was my territory and utterly forbidden to him” (Martel 168). He urinated on the parts of the boat that he claims as his part of the boat and does it in a way that Richard Parker who is an animal would understand.

Survivors are the ones who lived, and told stories about what they had gone through.

His need for the supplies on the lifeboat are what cause him to decide to try and train Richard Parker. Without his need for the lifeboat, he never would have chose to do something so dangerous and with such low odds of succeeding. Later on while training the tiger, Pi says “my behavior was not an act of insanity or a covert suicide attempt, but a simple necessity. Either I tamed him, made him see who was Number One and who was Number Two--or I died the day I wanted to climb aboard the lifeboat during rough weather and he objected” (206). He reinforces the idea that to train Richard Parker is a necessity and that his need for the boat overwhelms his fear or the tiger. Later on in the same instance during Pi’s training of the tiger, he tells of how the wild animal would make a point by knocking him off of the boat with one swipe of it’s paw. He describes his retaliation by saying, “Then I made my point, feet on the gunnel, boat rolling, my single-note language blasting from the whistle, and Richard Parker moaning and gasping

What inspires the will to survive in an extreme environment? The excerpt from Life of Pi by Yann Martel describes how Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with a tiger, Richard Parker, and is able to find the will to survive. In Life of Pi, Yann Martel uses events to develop the theme of survival through Pi thinking wisely to survive. Of Course, Pi has to think wisely to survive.

In a short story named “The Story of Keesh” and a novel excerpt named “The Life of Pi” both authors, Jack London and Yann Martel, develop certain qualities in characters who find the strength in themselves to want to survive when in extreme situations. Both Keesh and Pi obtain three traits that help them survive in these extreme environments such as bravery, intelligence and strategic plans.

Survival is the state of continuing to live through difficult times and to do that requires standards people need to have. The qualities that survivors need to retain in order to survive against disparity are confidence and determination.

As the will to survive becomes a necessity everyone starts to yearn for their lifes before their able to actually gain what they need to gain. In times of trouble everyone brings out their best and full strength to overcome a challenge in their pathway, where someone must overcome losing limbs in order to survive, or when a pair has to walk through hoards of the undead to reach safety; that’s when life has you on your toes making life a survival game.

A survival situation could possibly happen to anyone, anywhere, anytime.There are many circumstances that could threaten the survival of a person or a group of people. It could also be unexpected situations which arise suddenly, such as being lost in a desert or in a dense forest. Seeing all these different survival situations makes you ask the question, what strength is most valuable in one of these survival situations. Having a strong mindset is your best survival strength. If you have a strong mindset you can be sure to keep yourself motivated and stay alive, having one will also help you triumhp over problems that your faced with, you can also help understand and accept the fact your in a survival situation, and try to improve it until you can get out of the situation.

When having to face living in harsh environment, that person may experience starvation, thirst, the feeling of being alone or strand. In both “Life of Pi” excerpt and “The Story of Keesh”, both characters had either faced one or the other problem, and had to live difficult lives in different ways. But they both and difficult challenges to face. They weren’t just become successful in facing their problems by didn’t cry or give up, instead they toughened up and faced the challenge ahead of them like a true hero. In both “The Story of Keesh” and the book excerpt “Life of Pi” both characters demonstrate their bravery and intelligence when they are trying to survive in the harsh environments that they are living in.