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.

With every object that people have and every experience that people go though, they can be categorized into three categories: needs, wants, and negatives. Wants and needs, the two positive categories, are prioritized differently by everyone. People often misinterpret some parts of these categories, believing certain wants are needs and vice versa. For example, some people see makeup as a need to go outside, it is really just a want. This is how addictions form. When people categorize a want as need, however subconsciously, they end up truly needing that, whether it be drugs, alcohol, or even sugar. On the other hand, when people prioritize their wants, they often will be happier in life, even though they are in worse situations than many of

People who take life for granted don't truly accept life and not reshape their identity, until they've tasted adversity and all the vast misfortunes and catastrophe. Yann Martel’s book “Life Of Pi”, shows how adverse situations can help shape a person’s individual identity and play a noteworthy role in one’s life by establishing one’s ability, shaping one’s values and beliefs.

Though Pi’s conflict is internal, it affects his actions externally and eventually morphs him into savagery but also hopelessness. His conflict helps him realize how his beliefs limit his means of survival so consequently, he goes to extremes to abandon such beliefs. He even admits to himself that though it is “brutal…a person can get used to…killing” if done often enough (Martel 185). This realization Pi experiences causes him to focus on his methods of killing which leads to an overall comfort in the action. By abandoning his guilt, Pi finds himself able to “[grow] bolder and more agile” and “[descend] to a level of savagery [he] never imagines possible” (Martel 195-7). Not only does he kill more often, he also kills less carefully. Pi shifts from a gentle killer in regards to the victims to “an animal… [with a] noisy, frantic, unchewing wolfing-down” barbaric manner of murder (Martel 225). His evident change from a once caring and unaggressive hunter to a savage killing machine reveals how Pi reacts from his

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

Bengali polymath, Rabindranath Tagore, once said “you can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, the protagonist, Pi, faces many challenges at sea while being accompanied by a tiger by the name of Richard Parker. This tiger, though a nuisance, proves to be essential in the role of Pi’s survival. Throughout the story, Richard Parker symbolizes survival, a reflection of Pi, and a being of God.

Furthermore there are many reasons why people first start using drugs, but most are centered around pleasure or the expectation of increased efficiency or creativity. Initially most substance produce an effect such as euphoria or relief from anxiety, sadness and tension. This may be intensified by social circumstances that the individual confronts and many of the substances allow him to forget adverse life circumstances. In addition alcohol or the use of drugs can also give self-confidence and access to a new group of friends. In time many substances create new problems, difficulties are ignored, minimized or wrongly attributed to another causes and the user have difficulty in evaluating the advantages and disadvantage of continuing to use them.The addicts often describe their drug or alcohol use to ‘uncontrollable urges and cravings‘, craving is a desire for the substance and an urge is the internal drive or the stimulus to act on the desire, if a craving cannot be satisfied, for example understanding , an individual may turn to another such as substance use. Richards, D et all (2007)

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

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.

There was once a man who was driving around in the winter, he lost control of his car and went into a ditch. He awoke to find himself alone in the car with no gas station for miles. He made the decision to start walking, he walked for 2 miles when he came up on a truck. He assumed the owner was hunting as they were in a prime hunting spot. The man peeked inside the truck to find lots of food and warm clothes. If the man broke into the truck and ate the food and put the clothes on should he could get in trouble. He was in a very dangerous life or death situation. This is the question: Should he get in trouble for trying to save his own life? If humans are in life or death situations, they should be able to do whatever is needed to keep themselves alive.

When I was growing up, I wanted to open up a pet store. I would constantly tell my parents, from before I began school to around 6th grade, that I would get a business license and a rented out building and sell rescued animals my whole life. It didn’t seemed to matter to me that the few pets stores that have existed around our area have come and gone, making little to no money before the owners’ dreams of opening a pet store were destroyed. If my parents had asked me where I would accumulate the money to support rescued animals and how I would manage to accomplish this goal on my own, I wouldn’t have had the answer. Maybe that’s partly because I was so young and couldn’t realistically comprehend the importance of money in this circumstance,

The artifact I made for the book Life of Pi is a fish that is supposed to represent the Ying and Yang. Ying represents the more negative, intuitive and passive side while the yang represents positivity, active and logical. Each side has symbols to represent how they are Ying or yang. The fish is used as the artifact because of how it represents Pi’s survival on the boat. On the ying side I used a boat to to symbolize isolation and loneliness. I decided to put this on the ying side because at many times of the book Pi almost felt defeated about how lonely he felt and how there was no way off the boat. The hyena is suppose to represent evil and an example of this is when the zebra is injured the hyena is metaphorically feeding of its pain."Hyenas

Every problem we face we are given a choice, face it, or run away from it. Often times we choose to face it. With facing it comes integrity, responsibility, and more importantly will and determination. In the Life Of Pi by Yann Martel, Pi is in a shipwreck and stranded at sea for 227 days. Although he is faced with many challenges and the odds are greatly against him, his strong will and determination allow him to live.

Vampires are attractive and strong yet evil and selfish due to their bloodlust. Many believe that vampires greatly differ from mortal humans, but Yann Martel uses the vast differences between Richard Parker and Pi Patel to reveal how even humans can have two different sides to themselves.

Upon early consideration, it appears to be an exceedingly simplistic comparison, a “would you rather” question requiring very little legitimate scrutiny... Which scenario is worse: Being trapped in the sole presence of an adult Bengal Tiger, vicious and hungry, or, rather, your own thoughts, extensive and wandering? Regardless of the chosen answer, there is a single guaranteed repercussion: suffering, whether it be present in a physical or mental sense. Piscine Molitor Patel, commonly known as Pi, who experienced both miseries simultaneously after a devastating shipwreck in which he lost his entire family, is proof that the latter of the two options can, surprisingly enough, result in an equal, if not greater, amount of torment. This severe isolation, lasting for a total of 227 days, provided plenty of time for engaging in exploration of the dark, dusty crevices of his mind, and managed to alter the inner-workings of it, also, to the point where the teenage male eventually crawling to his salvation upon the shore of Mexico bore little resemblance to the one who had fallen atop a lifeboat tarpaulin over seven months prior. Pi’s various beliefs, all of which he had developed over the course of his childhood in India, such as those regarding the dangers of the personification of animals, the importance of respecting all life forms, as well as even a few defining personality traits, had each been twisted in