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The Significance of Animals in the Life of Pi In the book Life of Pi by Yann Martel, a sixteen-year-old boy named Piscine Patel was a normal sixteen-year-old kid living with his parents in Pondicherry, India. His father, Santosh Patel, was the owner of a local zoo there when he decided to vacate India due to Indira Ghandi taking over the country. Pi, his family, and animals from the Pondicherry Zoo boarded Tsimtsum, a Japanese cargo ship with the intention to go to Canada. On the night of July 2

You see it everywhere, whether it's in movies, songs, books, or in real life, you see people ignoring the harsh realities and using excuses of much variety to help them ignore the simple but horrific truths. Situations take place every single day that have realities that are too horrible for people to want to believe, therefore forcing them to ignore the authenticity of a situation in favor for a story that lacks both factuality and reasoning. Although most people ignore the realities, the fact

Religion is “the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods” (Dictionary). In society, many people follow the ethics of certain religions in order to make decisions about their life. The author Yann Martel uses Piscine Molitor Patel in the novel Life of Pi to send a message to readers about using ambiguity to create a theme about morality through the use of religion as spiritual beliefs can stabilize and nourish one in times of hardship. The use of

Could you imagine being stuck on a lifeboat with a life Bengal Tiger? This was the case for Piscine Patel, a 16 year old boy from South India in The Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel. This book made a significant cultural and religious impact to the communities of India, which makes it different from other books written by Yann Martel and other writers. The book is written from the point of view of Pi and his experiences as a castaway for 227 days. Pi is stuck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

story is about a young man by the name of Piscine Molitor Patel whose whole life changes in a blink of an eye and finds himself suddenly stuck with a Bengal tiger by the name of Richard Parker after he faces a shipwreck and loses his family. Yann brings the book to life when he puts imagination into it. In the first section of the novel, the book covers Pi’s childhood and how he majors in religious studies and zoology. In the second section of the novel, Pi’s transition into a man and how he brings out

Religion impacts the world in different ways.Such as economy, culture, politics and attitude towards life.It stays with us no matter what time is it harsh time, or happy time.Charles Darwin, English Naturalist, once said, “Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.” Similarly, a few years ago, one of my friends, he suffers a depression after his brother passed away in a

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

Have you ever been stranded in the middle of the ocean with a 450-pound adult bengal tiger? Well according to Pi Patel he has and survived nearly 300 days in that predicament. In the book Life of Pi, Yann Martel’s character Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel survives a shipwreck and ends up on a lifeboat with a variety of animals one of which being a bengal tiger. The story starts out with Pi telling the author he can make him believe in God with his story. Throughout the story Pi tells a great tale of his

Life of Pi - Yann Martel Life of Pi reflects many of the themes we discussed this week. For the sake of wordcount, I’m going to assume that everyone is familiar with the story. If not, Shmoop has a decent, to-the-point plot summary here: https://www.shmoop.com/life-of-pi/summary.html The most evident similarity between Life of Pi and early Romanticism is the speaker’s connection to nature. Wordsworth and Coleridge are primarily enamored by nature at a macro level. In Tintern Abbey, Wordsworth writes

repent. After losing his dignity and respect Lurie resigns from his post and seeks refuge at his daughter’s smallholding. Lurie´s daughter Lucy runs a farm independently in support of her black neighbor Petrus. Petrus introduces himself as “the dog-man” since he is, in exchange for a wage, taking care of Lucy´s kennel. At