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In Yann Martel’ Life of Pi, a young boy named Piscine Molitor Patel or Pi Patel is stranded on a lifeboat after a shipwreck. How can someone survive 227 days, on a lifeboat, on the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger? Pi is an Indian boy from Pondicherry who is faced with great difficulties staying alive after being separated from his family following the shipwreck. His faith and belief in God greatly helped him get out of this misery. In the following paragraphs, I will explore the themes revealed

Piscine Molitor has grown up with animals all his life and has a place in his heart for animals, but maybe not hyenas. In Life of Pi by Yann Martel Pi is surrounded by the animal kingdom. Pi’s father owns The Pondicherry zoo located in India. In the book, Pi believes animals and humans are equal. Pi loves animals and has a special bond with them, but when it comes to hyenas that is a different story. As day breaks, Pi realizes how much energy the hyena has, “the zebra was dead by noon. It was

Life of Pi Essay Stranded and lost, deep in the Pacific ocean, with no direction or path to follow, with only a crazed hyena, a wounded zebra, a worried orangutan, and a fierce tiger for company. This is the situation that Pi finds himself in during the novel, Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor Patel (Pi), goes through many struggles and challenges throughout his journey in the lifeboat. There are some major beliefs that he learned during his childhood in India that helps

Human Deprivation The title of the novel The Inheritance of Loss is very suitable as tells failures, disappoinments of the real characters once lived in the post colonial India. The themes of loss, for in our world if mankind has nothing else to take over, it can accept loss as its heritage, however, the matter is not as simple or straight as it looks, the reason is that this novel is a highly intricate work which confronts several themes extending from loss to poverty, gain, to wealth, justice to

The world has seen all the hardships and struggles, wars and peace, death and births, but no matter the struggle one has to face, no individual comes out being the same as someone else. The two texts, Life of Pi by Yan Martel and Tiger by William Blake contain similar elements of pain and suffering. However, through the symbol of tiger in both texts to represent these elements, the tiger breaks the bond between texts when the realization sets in on how different the tigers truly are. The two texts

emotional strength by thinking of their families. The struggles of Sherpas in Mt. Everest is described in The Value of a Sherpa Life by Grayson Schaffer. Having a weak emotional strength has its consequences. In the story The Seventh Man by Haruki Murakami, the 7th Man lives a miserable life because he couldn’t overcome the guilt he felt for the death of his close friend. In the story The Voyage of the James Caird the entire crew demonstrated mental strength throughout the entire journey. Despite

3. J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians 3.1 Critical Discourse Analysis In Coetzee’s slim novel Waiting for the Barbarians, the author focuses on the abiding problems of man’s malicious treatment of men – and women. During the composition of Coetzee’s third novel, the anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko was murdered in prison. The subsequent media coverage of the public inquiry provided Coetzee with his theme for Waiting for the Barbarians; “The effects of totalitarianism and torture on the

Yann Martel's novel (2001) and Ang Lee's film adaption (2012) of Life of Pi harbour themes such as isolation and the extent one would go to in order to survive. The story is split into two parts, the first part focuses on Piscine "Pi" Patel's background and his religious journey. Part two focuses on Pi's predicaments while he is stranded out at sea for 227 days. The second section of the story is renown for Pi's situation with a tiger named Richard Parker. Not only does the protagonist have to focus

In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Yann Martel's Life of Pi both main characters Pi and Holden have an equal amount of grief and pain, so they can relate to each other. Pi is more mature than Holden Caulfield, but they both have not found that fulfilment that makes them feel whole. They search for two different things to find satisfaction and coping methods with their problems in life. Pi seeks the spiritual world through God and religion for help with his struggles. Holden takes the logical

Should people be held responsible for their actions in a life or death situation? Depending on whether or not they knew they would get themselves into this situation, the answer is ultimately, yes. Some don’t even know that they are getting themselves into a situation that could potentially cause them great pain or death. Obviously, that says something about their character, that they don’t realize they could die at any moment during their expedition, but does their foolishness grant them free passage