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Your close reading of Life of Pi was well done. I agree with the major theme of Life of Pi being the will to survive. This passage also stood out to me as a reader, the comparison of life being an endgame of chess. I think that this is a good comparison to what Pi experience on the life boat. The contradiction of the first sentence forces the reader to think deep about what Pi is going through. I personally could not imagine being on a life boat for 227 days and adapting as well as Pi did. Like I

at the expense of taking one. He ripped the flesh off the man’s frame and had cracked his bones. The smell of blood filled my nose. Something in me died”(Martel 255). Pi describes a part of him that has died and never came back to life. This can be read as Pi’s loss of innocence. Another example of loss innocence is

The movie, Life of Pi is a movie that is one of my favorites and is most inspiring for many reasons. The director, Ang Lee, wanted the movie to have “depth and realism.” It is a story-within-a-story that is based on a fictional novel written in 2001 by Yann Martel, a Canadian author. The author tells the story about a boy named Piscine Molitor Patel (known as Pi) who survives insurmountable odds. Pi loses his entire family when their ship sank. He is left to the shipwreck’s inhabitants of a

In the book “Life of Pi” the author, Yann Martel, uses the symbolism of water, raft to support the theme of survival. In the novel water represents life because without life everything would be impossible. Water is the most important symbol in the novel because water represents life, and without life everything would be impossible. Pi was never to fond of water from a young age, but as Pi is on the ocean he realizes that getting used to water is mandatory for his survival. Water tried to kill

In the novel Life of Pi, Yann Martel reflected the idea of a world of hope and possibility through Pi’s thoughts, experiences, and religious beliefs. The first way Martel illustrated a world of hope was through Pi’s thoughts. Throughout the novel, Pi faced many situations that tested his fortitude, but he always thought hopefully. Another example of Pi’s hopeful thinking was before his move to Canada, “... I wildly waved goodbye to India… I was terribly excited.” (91). Even though Pi was leaving

Calamity can make an individual question the meaning of life and its continuity. Roles of prey and predator are interchangeable in dreadful circumstances; when survival instincts come through. During an accident, our priorities might shift from saving our loved ones to saving ourselves. We might be forced to surrender our values, philosophies and cultural ideologies in situations where the probability of mortality is high. In Life of Pi, Yann Martel portrays the protagonist, Piscine Molitor Patel

Life of Pi is an allegorical novel written by Yann Martel. It tells the story of young Piscine Molitor Patel and his treacherous journey across the Pacific with Richard Parker, a Bengal tiger. Pi begins his adventure in Pondicherry, India. He and his family board a ship called the Tsimtsum. The ship, however, sinks before reaching land and leaves Piscine stranded in the ocean with Richard Parker, a zebra, a hyena, and an orangutan in a small lifeboat. After conflict among the animals, Richard Parker

“Eat or be eaten.” Life is basically just a big survival game. It’s important to survive, if you don’t you will not live. An astonishing example is the USS Indianapolis. The Indianapolis was a flagship and it had just gotten done delivering parts to another ship. On it’s way back to port, a Japanese submarine shot the Indianapolis with a torpedo and the ship started to sink. The crew members got on life rafts and were stranded in the middle of the ocean with little food and water. On the third day

Storytelling, a unique human attribute used to share values and beliefs from one to another, is a theme that has been implemented from the very beginning of the famous novel, Life of Pi. Life of Pi (2001), written by Yann Martel, is a novel about the importance of belief and storytelling. The story is about a young man named Piscine Molitor Patel, nicknamed Pi, who survives almost eight months at sea with a large Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. At the end of the novel, Pi tells two completely

instructed him to hold on. All the forces of his body were aching him to let go of life but, his mind overcame. The author reveals the mind’s ability to subdue the human body and its needs by establishing Pi’s distractions. “I kept a diary. It’s hard to read. I wrote as small as I could. I was afraid I would run out of paper’’ (208). Pi utilized the strength of his own mind to distract himself from the reality of his present struggles. He spent his days writing down his thoughts in order to relieve his