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Trauma and Coping: Individualistic Approaches When faced with traumatic circumstances and events, each individual develops their own personal ways to cope. Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, is a fictional adventure novel that follows the expeditions of a castaway and a Bengal tiger. In Life of Pi, Piscine (Pi) Patel subconsciously translates his story into one that aids him in coping with recent events. He begins to parallel human characters with the animals that personify them; each illusion

faith when he is fifteen. Pi knows that the Muslim faith has a bad reputation similar to that of Christianity, so he is a little hesitant to go to the Muslim neighborhood. Pi enters the neighborhood and comes across a bakery. In this bakery he meets a man that introduces him to the Muslim faith. While Pi is in the bakery, the baker excuses himself to go pray. This is the first time Pi sees a Muslim pray and Pi describes it as, “quick, necessary, physical, muttered, striking”(60). This praying intrigues

In our everyday lives, we have rarely been faced with situations where we had to fight to live. Whereas, in nature, the only law is survival of the fittest. When you apply “Horror” to Life of Pi, you will recall multiple events that demonstrated how wild animals use survival to live. Yann Martel uses the theme, of violence being a metaphor, to convey that in nature you have to fight to live. The first mention of the violence was when Pi’s father taught Pi and his brother a lesson on who was the most

In the awe-inspiring novel Life of Pi, the author Yann Martel uses the color orange to symbolize survival and hope. Soon after the sinking of the ship, Pi expresses the significance of this color as it appears all throughout the lifeboat. He observantly states in his narration, “..the tarpaulin and the life jackets and the lifebuoy and the oars and most every ther significant object aboard was orange. (Martel 138)” Through this quote, the author establishes it as an indisputable fact that orange

In the novel “Life of Pi” it reflects many obstacles that the main character Piscine has to overcome. He is faced with challenges that range from horrifying boat crashes, to animal attacks. He ends up believing that Richard Parker, which is Piscine’s best friend and the one he always goes to. The main obstacle that came with Richard Parker being his best friend was that he was a Bengal Tiger. He was first introduced to the tiger by his father, when he believed Pi was in danger from the tiger, so

An Island, A Religion, and A Pi Hinduism is very prominent in the novel by Yann Martel, as well as many connections between the book and the popular religion.He was thrown into Hinduism when he was a child, but was torn between his mother’s religious beliefs and father's more rational belief. I came across a quote while reading about the meerkat island and it said, “To live forever or to lead a stable life, one has to cross the ocean and reach the other shore”(V,J) . This quote is saying that life

When taming a lion, a lion-tamer enters the arena or cage first, moreover, the lion sees that the area is not his own territory. If the lion-tamer was to enter the cage after the lion had been placed into it, the lion would feel offended that a man had crossed into his boundaries, and violence would be his punishment. Due to Pi’s knowledge of boundaries and wild animals, he was able to successfully tame Richard Parker enough to wear he could be safe while on the

How would you feel being out at sea stuck on a lifeboat for 227 days with only zoo animals for company and then watching them all be killed and then spend the rest of your days at sea with a Royal Bengal tiger weighing 450 pounds and about nine feet long. Life of Pi by Yann Martel starts off in Pondicherry India with Pi Patel and his family, they then load some animals and themselves onto a cargo ship on its way to Canada. After they are on the ship there is a malfunction on the ship and it sinks

The final product was a graphical representation based on the novel Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. The assignment, which was representing Pi’s life at sea, had a superior outcome than expected. I originally believed that the final image would be mediocre and that my group and I would be struggling to complete it in the last minute. However, the project was finished well in advance and the ultimate result was a pleasant surprise. The whole group worked together and used our strengths to create the

The fiction story, Life of Pi, displays a relationship between a youthful boy and faith. The book, written by the Spanish author Yann Martel, depicts the arduous and crucial journey of a young, religious boy. Named Piscine Molitor Patel, often referred as Pi, he encounters a dilemma regarding his spirituality. The text consists of three parts that take place in entirely different places: the first one in his hometown; Pondicherry, the second one stranded on the Pacific Ocean with Richard Parker,