Pi

In “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel , Piscine Patel is the protagonist of this story, his rare name came from french word for pool and more specifically, from a pool in paris in which a close family friend loved to swim. An indian boy who is trying to discover who he is, as a kid his name “piscine” but was popularly use but instead classmates had convert it to “pissing” as like urine , Patel wasn't hurt or mad about it , but he didn't wanted people to remember him as “piss”, when the new year started

Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, is a story of a boy named Pi Patel. In the beginning of the story, Pi tells us how he is named after a swimming pool named the Piscine Molitor. His parent’s friend whom he calls “Mamaji” was a swimmer and tells Pi’s parents how that was the most elegant pool he has ever swam in therefore becoming his namesake. Piscine’s family was Hindu but as he explores more religions, he says he wants to practice two more, such as Christianity and Islam. Throughout the book

C.S. Lewis once described faith as “the art of holding onto things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.” This concept of faith is repeatedly tested throughout Yann Martel’s novel, The Life of Pi. The book follows the life of Piscine Patel, or Pi for short, and begins with his exploration of faith through multiple religions in his hometown of Pondicherry, India, and later delves into his arduous journey of being stranded at sea with a 420-pound Bengal tiger for 227 days

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, do the details of the story really matter if the outcomes are the same? Similarly both stories include Pi being shipwrecked with hungry individuals who must fight to survive

Life of Pi is about a young boys journey through early life. It tells about his religious evolution and non conformity. It also tells about survival in the Pacific ocean, on a lifeboat, with a 450 pound Bengal tiger. Pi has strong beliefs about captivity, vegetarianism, and religion. These beliefs are all questioned when his is in the Pacific. Pi believes that captivity is not bad for animals. During Pi’s youth in India, he spends almost all of his free time at the zoo, where he lives. In his time

Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, is an extraordinary, magical, and emotional novel published in 2001. Named after a french pool, Piscine Molitor Patel, also known as Pi, is the novel's protagonist. Martel's novel tells the story of Pi, who is the son of an Indian zookeeper, born in Pondicherry. After selling their zoo in India and deciding to move to Canada, the Patel family (which consists of Pi, his brother Ravi, his father Santosh, and his mother Gita) boards a Japanese cargo ship called Tsimtsum,

Martel gives us the hyena to show us just how clever, cowardly, and greedy one can be when in drastic measures. At the beginning of the novel, the hyena, Pi and the other animals are thrown on the lifeboat to survive with little to nothing. The hyena takes it upon himself to attack the zebra’s wounded leg, “[he bit] it off and dragged it to the stern” (Martel 120). The hyena strategically aims for the most vulnerable part of the zebra, still keeping in mind that the tiger must have a source of nutrition

The novel Life of Pi is an artistic case of a bildungsroman as it demonstrates Pi developing physically and rationally. A bildungsroman is a sort of novel worried about the advancement and developing of a youthful hero. Pi's improvement from a youngster to a man is credited to him dealing with himself, candidly managing the lost of his family and companions, and developing to settle on his own choices in his faith. Pi truly experiences childhood in the novel. He is stranded on a ship for more than

will contribute to who we are and how we live. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, a boy named Pi becomes stranded on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. Throughout this book Pi learns how to survive and to coexist with the tiger. Through Pi’s experience, he learns a new appreciation for the small things in life, and for the gifts of god. At the beginning of the book, Pi is a religious teenager, a vegan, and a relatively humble person. Pi belongs to three religions and is a very religious and believing person

her choice. In the novel, Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, the protagonist of the story, Pi, also makes a few choices and loses some valuable things in his life. In the novel, Pi is a sixteen year-old Indian boy stranded on a lifeboat with a Royal Bengal Tiger, Richard Parker, in the Pacific Ocean who is trying to find a way to reach the shore. Firstly, Pi loses his entire family when the ship, Tsimtsum, sinks in the ocean. This loss is a result of the choice that Pi has made because he chooses to explore