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In Life of Pi, the main character is Piscine Molitor, though people call him Pi. Pi’s family was on their way to immigrate to Canada via ship, though the ship sinks in the middle of the ocean and the only survivors are Pi, an orangutan, a zebra and a tiger stranded on a lifeboat. Later on, the orangutan and zebra die, leaving a hungry tiger that is unpredictable and Pi who has limited resources, in the middle of the ocean. If Pi wants to not die and have a chance to survive, he must stay alive from

Life of Pi This book, the Life of Pi was mainly about how a middle age boy has to discover what life is going to throw at him. In the start of the book piscine and his family decide to sell the farm and move to Canada in hopes for a better and wealthier life away from India, and on the way to Canada the boat they are aboard, called the Tsimtsum began to sink so he was thrown onto a lifeboat with non other than a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, a orangutan, and a bengal tiger. Later on the hyena

Through the North Pole to the Indian Ocean, survival skills may be the key of seeing daylight again. Especially in the scenarios described in the following stories; Life of Pi and “The Story of Keesh”. In the vicious Pacific Ocean and the freezing Arctic, Pi and Keesh are forced to survive by using the skills they have. Traveling with a humongous Bengal Tiger on a lifeboat, Pi tries to live on after a boat crash he experienced earlier. On the rim of the polar sea, Keesh needs to hunt ferocious polar

Yann Martel incorporated so many unique writing styles in Life of Pi. The book is split into three different parts each focusing on a separate country. Martel leaves an Author’s Note at the start of the book, it is written in the first person and gives some background information on Yaan. It shows how the author’s own adventures are worked into the book, he blends facts and fiction together which resulted into Life of Pi as we know it. The first and second part of the book, Toronto and Pondicherry

Life of Pi is a very interesting book. There are two different versions of Pi’s story that are given near the end of the book. There is one story with Pi, a hyena, zebra, orangutan and a tiger named Richard Parker. The other story is without animals. This story has a sailor, a chef, Pi and his mother replacing the animals. The question is, which story is true? I believe the story with the tiger. The story without the animals seemed less believable because of how inhumane it was. I don’t think that

Martel's fiction novel, Life of Pi, tells the story of a boy raised in a zoo, whose name is Piscine (pi). Pi's father decides to move the family to live in Canada and sell the animals to the great zoos of America. The ship taking them across the Pacific sinks and Pi finds himself the sole human survivor on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan (orange juice), a zebra with a broken leg and a Bengal tiger called Richard Parker. Pi had lots of experiences, bonding and adventures on the pacific with

There are many people who believe in God and there are those who believe in science. People who believe in God turn a deaf ear to the voice of reason. People who believe in science lack the ability to believe something on faith. Life of Pi by Yann Martel is a story of a young man named Pi shipwrecked at sea for seven months where his life is changed forever. After escaping the sea, Pi tells two stories of what happened during those seven months. Regardless which story is more believable or interesting

Rossi 1 Lilly Rossi Joyner English II 18 February 2016 Life of Pi Literary Analysis; Suffering When the word suffering is brought about, the instant thought is typically “suffering equals pain.” However, suffering is more than a physical ache, or discomfort. Suffering can be mental agony, like anxiety, hopelessness, anguish, guilt, trauma or distress. It can also be emotional, like heartbreak, grief or pure sadness. Each and every person will experience physical, emotional and mental suffering

For instance, as Pi seeks for comfort and a distraction, he finds it with “a diary. It's hard to read. I wrote as small as I could. I was afraid I would run out of paper. There's not much to it. Words scratched on a page trying to capture a reality that overwhelmed me.” (Martel 245) Pi uses the diary to get all of his thoughts out. Whenever Pi feels

Religion is a cultural system of behaviors and practices, worldviews, ethics, and social organisation that relate humanity to an order of existence. Religion gives people an outlook and a guide on how to deal with life. In the novel, “Life of Pi” Pi experiences many different struggles that test his faith and basic instincts. The author, Yann Martel, uses religion and zoology to explain Pi’s journey and survival throughout the novel. Martel’s novel is deeply religious and the protagonist Pi deals