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Discoveries referring to people and places can lead an individual to new values and understandings but also ramifications. These discoveries being on a large or small scale can lead to positive outcomes such as new understandings and values or negative outcomes being ramification or consequences brought from a discovery. This is evident in Ang Lee’s film Life of Pi where during Pi’s journey and hardships lead to his new understanding of faith contrasted to his discovery to survive on his journey

Many famous novels have been rearranged in order to make movies. However, the quality of the movie, a lot of the times, depends on the changes made when adapting the novel to film. The director of the movie needs to make sure that the film does not cut off significant parts, and at the same time, abstain from the unnecessary parts the writer made without changing the whole theme. Moreover, they need to add in more characters and scenes to make the film more creative and understandable. In this essay

Life of Pi In the book Life of Pi, Pi is a young man who is stranded in the ocean, in a 26-foot long boat, with a tiger. He must survive not only the ocean, the sun, and Richard Parker, but he must stay sane, only having himself and God to rely on. Pi, very religious as a child, continues to believe in God after and during this ordeal. This is why Pi’s faith and his imagination may have helped him survive. Religion plays a big part in Pi’s childhood. While he likes science, which is usually the

Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, follows the life of Piscine Molitor Patel who physically endured over two hundred days on a directionless lifeboat with only a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker as a companion. When Pi is first recovered and put into a hospital, he is forced to recount his detailed story to a couple of judgemental Japanese correspondents, Mr.Okamoto and Mr.Chiba, who not only do not believe his story, but laugh in his face as he vocalizes it. They believe Pi’s tale is nothing more

I Am Legend and Life of Pi are two dramatic tragedies that center around the main characters Dr. Robert Neville and Piscine “Pi” Patel while they attempt to survive in the devastating world around them. In I Am Legend, Dr. Krippin finds a cure for Cancer by modifying the measles virus into a vaccine. For years, one hundred percent of the patients are cancer-free, thankful that they get a second chance at life. All of a sudden, the cure rapidly mutates into an extremely deadly virus that is equivalent

“Life of Pi” Film Analysis Survival is an instinct. Often times, in order to survive, people must shed a part of their innocence. For some, it may be subtle, taken in tiny bites along the way, and for others it could be in one traumatizing moment. Ang Lee, director of “The Life of Pi,” explores this theme throughout his film. Lee shows the viewer this loss in the use of imagery, lighting, and color. He takes the viewer on a journey through the eyes of Piscine Patel as his innocence and humanity

Santosh Patel is Pi’s father. He managed his zoo in India. He is raised a Hindu but he is not religious. Yann Martin uses indirect characterization to describe Santosh Patal’s characteristics. In Life of Pi, Santosh Patal is characterized as a person who being rational and irreligious in order to show how he educates his son, Pi and reveal his rational thoughts in the story. Santosh Patal’s rational thoughts influence Pi’s living judgment ability. “I’m going to show you how dangerous tigers are

In the first half of Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Pi Patel is a young boy that grows up in India. His name is actually Piscine, but due to people saying “Pissing” instead, he started going by Pi. His father owned a zoo, which he visited regularly. As he grows up, he becomes a Hindu, Muslim, and a Christian. Many people tell him that he can’t be all three, but he has to choose one. He claims, “I just want to love god” (CITATION HERE). Towards the end of the first part, Pi learns that his family is moving

Life of Pi by Yann Martel, is a fictional novel which claims the ability to tell a story which will make readers and the fictional author believe in God. The story revolves around a male protagonist, Piscine Molitor Patel, a sixteen-year-old Indian boy that survives the sinking of the Japanese cargo ship-Tsimtsum-for 227 days with a Bengal tiger called Richard Parker. The author creates such a realistic setting that elicits not only pity but a need to remain hopeful for the protagonist. This is however

Tara Bodi Bodi 1 Mrs. Duffy English 9H Block 3 September 8, 2015 Summer Reading Assignment All stories, real or fictitious, have at least a few aspects of truth to them, whether it be in the moral, plot, or details of the story. Life of Pi by Yang Martel