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    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 animals to get meat for

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    Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

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    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

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    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

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    Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

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    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

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    Life Of Pi

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    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

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    Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

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    A person needs many things to survive; like food, water and shelter. People also need to be mentally stable to make good decisions when necessary. In the novel, The Life of Pi, the author, Yann Martel, puts the main character, Pi Patel, in a survival situation where he needed to acquire all these things to survive. Pi Patel’s mental needs are the most important part to his survival because once his mental needs are met he makes smart decisions and then can proceed to fulfill his other needs. Pi’s

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    inside you? In the novel, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, creates a magical and life changing adventure for readers. The novel introduces a different concept about faith and religion and explores the opposite sides of nature and humanity. Martel portrays each topic through his character Pi Patel. Pi is the only human in the novel that survived a harsh storm killing his family and almost all of his father’s animals; besides a hyena, orangutan, zebra, and a bengal tiger. Pi kept himself busy with continuing

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    A tumultuous typhoon surges towards you. You are standing still with your best friend and his dog when this occurs. What do you do? Your natural instinct is to run. Therefore, you try to get your friend’s attention and warn him. Unfortunately, he is so mesmerized with the surroundings and is unable to hear you. Suddenly you start to panic as the typhoon gets closer and decide you must run away to survive this ordeal. However, what about your best friend and his dog? Every man for himself? Would

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    How Names Are Significant to the Life of Pi The Life of Pi is a book that focuses on the journey of a young boy named Piscine Molitor Patel while he becomes stranded at sea with the comfort of only a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Names are significant to this story because you can get more of a connection with someone if names are mentioned more than once and if a little backstory is given. Piscine Molitor Patel, known better as Pi, was given this name by Mamaji, a name meaning ‘Respected

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    Life Of Pi

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    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

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