Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

While this is almost certainly the way that it is meant to be received, the second interpretation makes the book fall just short of what it could be. My initial interpretation is that the two stories given seems like lazy writing. The author could have spent more time fleshing out the humans. Then, later, during Pi’s adventure he could have dropped more hints that the animals represent said people. This would allow the reader to come to the conclusion alone. Even if he did reveal the alternate story in the end, it is more satisfactory for the reader to be curious about it beforehand. There was little evidence pointing to these minor human characters being told as animals and the result was what seems almost like a cheap twist. While the author clearly thought out what he wanted the story to make the reader think about, he did not do it in a way that made the ending satisfying. With either story, there are moments that seem out of place and unexplained. Although this discomfort may have been the author's goal, it did seem a little out of place and poorly executed. Despite what the reader believes about the stories this novel is full of metaphors and symbolism that can keep a conversation going for a long time, with

On his journey to North America, Pi experienced many unfortunate events that no one, especially a sixteen year old should ever have to face. The environment that surrounded Pi was unfamiliar and came with many obstacles. Accompanied by a sailor, taiwanese cook, and his mother, Pi had to face the gruesome truth; his acquaintances were all willing to go to any extent in order to survive. Since food is a necessity of life, these innocent humans were all forced to kill and eat their own kind to stop their hunger. To make this story tolerable, Pi retells it with animals instead of people by replacing: the cook for a hyena, the taiwanese man for a zebra, his mother for Orange Juice and himself for Richard Parker. By altering reality, Pi was able

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.

In Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi, he wants the reader to decipher whether his first story or his second story is real. The first story consists of the protagonist, Piscine Patel, being trapped on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, Richard Parker, and many other animals from his father’s zoo after they were lost together at sea. In the second story, Piscine re-tells a different story with a chef, his mother, and a sailor, this was to give the Japanese investigators “a story that wont surprise them (you)” (Martel 302). Martel clearly wishes the reader to understand why “Pi” might

Often the mind easily and distinctly separates the contrasting ideas, events, and moments displayed to them in life. Those people that make such a separation then proceed to choose a side and stick to it. Stubbornly, these people will continue to back their decisions through and through, rarely again truly looking at their previous verdict. But against this reality in the novel, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Piscine (Pi) Molitor Patel creates his own harmonious unity between life’s own contrasts in his mind, sculpting a story true to himself. Constantly throughout his journey, Pi is faced with his own opposing views in which others in his life find that he must choose between. Nonetheless, Pi holds true to his own decisions and fights for his own views as he decides to dissolve the separation between conflicting ideas in order to keep his sanity and life on the ocean. Along Pi’s adventure, Martel displays both Pi’s physical and spiritual journeys, ultimately displaying the absolute necessity of both science and religion in the two stories to ensure one’s survival.

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The book I read was the Life of Pi by Yann Matel. Pi Patel was the main character. He was a fourteen-year-old Indian boy from Pondicherry, India. He was deeply religious and practiced three religions; Hindu, Catholicism, and Islam. He was a vegetarian who did not eat meat. Pi lived at the Pondicherry Zoo with his mother, father, and brother Ravi. He was a slim young man with dark hair and dark eyes. His family gave up the zoo (not the animals) and planned to move to Canada on a cargo ship to set up a zoo there. Pi Patel faced his greatest battle to survive on the open sea.

Pi tells the Japanese reporters that he killed the cook the next morning, but Pi is telling a lie. In the first story Pi comes upon a blind Frenchman who was supposedly in another lifeboat, at the time, Pi was also blind. The blind Frenchman tells Pi that he ate a man and a woman, in the second story, the cook ate the sailor and Pi’s mother. After a long conversation, the Frenchman strangles Pi and Pi says he heard Richard Parker get up and kill the Frenchman. Considering the second version, the blind Frenchman is the cook and he and Pi were on the lifeboat long enough to go blind and this is when Pi actually kills the cook. After the cook killed Pi’s mother, Pi knew he could not kill the cook because he admitted that the cook was resourceful. When Pi does kill the cook, he says that he landed upon an island with freshwater ponds, an abundance of meerkats and algae. On this island Pi regains his strength by eating a great amount of the islands algae. When night falls Pi says the island becomes carnivorous, when thousands of dead fish start floating to the surface and all the meerkats gather in the trees. Pi then finds a set of human teeth wrapped up in the trees and he decides that whoever landed upon the island before him must gotten digested by the tree and but their teeth did not get digested. In the second version, the

Thinking about fear and its power, Pi acknowledges, "He pushed me to go on living. I hated him for it, yet at the same time I was grateful. I am grateful. It's the plain truth: without Richard Parker, I wouldn't be alive today to tell you my story" (Martel 164). Not ironically, Pi is pondering fear before he makes this statement; fear itself is what brings about his human instinct to survive. This animalistic instinct, as expressed through Richard Parker, is what keeps Pi alive. When Richard Parker kills the hyena, Pi points out, "It seemed the presence of a tiger saved me from a hyena..." (Martel 136). Once again, the importance of Pi's animalistic side is prevalent; however, it leads Pi to killing the chef. Pi uses Richard Parker as a way of ascribing his guilt away from himself onto Richard Parker. To further disassociate himself from his savage side and remind himself of his humanity, Pi includes himself in the story. When the sea is calm and Richard Parker appears, Pi notes, "The weird contrast between the bright, striped, living orange of his coat and the inert white of the boat's hull was incredibly compelling. My overwrought senses screeched to a halt" (Martel 160). In this moment, Pi is able to escape all senses of survival and take in the beauty. Conclusively, moments like these remind him of his humanity. Pi's use of both himself and

A person needs many things to survive; like food, water and shelter. People also need to be mentally stable to make good decisions when necessary. In the novel, The Life of Pi, the author, Yann Martel, puts the main character, Pi Patel, in a survival situation where he needed to acquire all these things to survive. Pi Patel’s mental needs are the most important part to his survival because once his mental needs are met he makes smart decisions and then can proceed to fulfill his other needs. Pi’s mental needs are more important than his physical needs when he invites Richard Parker onto his lifeboat.

In the story , Life of pi by Yann Martel, the main character Pi is told it's can be dangerous to anthropomorphize animals. the definition of anthropomorphize is to talk about a thing or an animal as though it was human, blurring the line between animal and human. Pi tells two stories where human and animal actions are indistinguishable. In these stories the mothers counterpart is the orangutan O.J., the sailors is the zebra the cook’s is the hyena and Richard Parker is Pi. When Pi tells these stories the reader doesn't know who is symbolising who.

This book, the Life of Pi was mainly about how a middle age boy has to discover what life is going to throw at him. In the start of the book piscine and his family decide to sell the farm and move to Canada in hopes for a better and wealthier life away from India, and on the way to Canada the boat they are aboard, called the Tsimtsum began to sink so he was thrown onto a lifeboat with non other than a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, a orangutan, and a bengal tiger. Later on the hyena ends up killing and eating both the zebra and the orangutan which causes the result of the tiger fixing the problem. While stranded at sea, Pi faces two main problems. One, is his physical health, cleary he has to fight to keep alive with water and

Subject The Life of Pi by Yann Martel is full of conflict. Pi has to survive on a lifeboat in the middle of the pacific ocean accompanied by a full grown tiger. Pi must also keep himself poised while on the boat. He also must keep his beliefs that he followers which are Christianity, Muslum,and Hinduism.

When a person goes through a traumatic or arduous experience, it often leaves a person despondent. Following the experience, if given some time to heal, a person can see the world as a brighter place, something they wish to enrich and protect. Whether it be a dangerous beast, or a monster in your own head, as long as someone is resilient and strong, they can make it out the other side a better person. The novel by Yann Martel, Life of Pi, shows this in a beautiful, surreal way, and is truly a story about perseverance, resilience, and strength of character. Through a terrible shipwreck, Piscine Patel is left an orphan on the pacific ocean, the only other survivors being animals, two of which are predators. However, it is revealed at the end of the book, that the animals may have been humans, and due to the horrific nature of the acts committed on the lifeboat. This is due to his brain trying to

He starts out with a zebra, hyena, an orangutan, and a tiger, but the animals slowly diminish leaving only Pi and Richard Parker. Pi works to tame and care for Richard Parker, and the two survive for two hundred twenty-seven days. Pi encounters a fellow French castaway who is eaten by Richard Parker (Martel 311-320). Pi also comes across a man-eating island (Martel 322-358). The events that take place are fairly far-fetched, and the probability of all of them occurring to the same person in the period of time given is even less believable. The second story, on the other hand, is a perhaps more believable retelling of the original story. Pi relates the second tale upon the request of his interviewers for “‘a story without animals’” (Martel 381). In this story the animals are replaced with human representatives including an injured Chinese sailor, a French cook, Pi’s mother, and Pi himself. The second story, like the first, begins with many passengers on the boat, but in the end it leaves only Pi to survive by himself after brutally murdering and eating the cook who killed both the sailor and Pi’s own mother (Martel 381-391). Unlike Pi’s first story, this account is dark, desperate, and harshly realistic, without any sense of hope to counter it all. After relating both of these stories to his interviewers, Pi asks them which story they think is better (Martel 398). Although the