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    book Life of Pi is a fish that is supposed to represent the Ying and Yang. Ying represents the more negative, intuitive and passive side while the yang represents positivity, active and logical. Each side has symbols to represent how they are Ying or yang. The fish is used as the artifact because of how it represents Pi’s survival on the boat. On the ying side I used a boat to to symbolize isolation and loneliness. I decided to put this on the ying side because at many times of the book Pi almost felt

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    will defend itself no matter how small it is” (Yann 47). Life of Pi, by Yann Martel is a novel that explains how even though you lost everything you can overcome almost everything. This novel is about one boy’s family who owns a zoo, then took a trip with all the animals, yet instead of arriving to their destination life had another thing in mind. Martel describes despite whom it are you can be friends with them. The boy has a {named Pi} family who thinking of moving to Canada and the boat crashed

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    Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

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    Life of Pi: Literary Essay The novel Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, is about Pi, a teenage boy from Pondicherry, India, and the fascinating story he has to tell. His story is not a typical story a teenage boy would have to share, he tells the story of his journey stranded in the middle of the ocean with a Bengal tiger. The novel is about strength, faith, and survival. Martel constructs these themes through the great use of symbolism. Martel uses symbolism to enrich the idea of strength

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    animals of Life of Pi never really existed? Life of Pi is no doubt a very innovative and creative novel. An example of this is how it uses animals to tackle challenges that one faces when stranded at sea. The most prevalent animals were a zebra, hyena, orangutan, and a Tiger known as Richard Parker. However the animals were never really there, but instead were just metaphors for Pi’s changing psychology and personality throughout the book. The Grant Zebra is one of the first animals Pi comes in contact

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    The extraordinary film 'Life of Pi' directed by Oscar-Winning director Ang Lee has caused responders to feel empowered with its wide-eyed spirituality and magic realism. A film that was deemed 'unfilmable' can change everything you thought you knew about yourself. The physical, emotional and spiritual discoveries the main protagonist Pi encounters throughout the unimaginable story is what changes the responders perception. The film ultimately conveys how an individual's discovery can change their

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    In Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, two narratives are presented to describe how Pi survived his journey on a life boat to Mexico. The difference between the truths of both stories is the difference between faith and reason. Both the author and Pi recognize the importance of trust and nature of truth in this novel has to do with a form of blind faith instead of doubt. “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transport” (Yann Martel, 28). The early religious

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    Isolation acts as a good method to collect thoughts and sort out complex situations. However, Yann Martel, the author of Life of Pi, writes about isolation from a different perspective. Piscine Molitor Patel, a sixteen year old boy, experiences hardships which shows how easily change occurs. The book takes place on a stranded lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Pi must live with no human contact besides an adult Bengal Tiger. In the story, Martel reveals how isolation causes a person to lose

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    Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

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    Life of Pi the protagonist, Pi Patel, is trapped on a lifeboat with a cook, a sailor, and his mother. While on the lifeboat, horrific events occur, and in order to lessen the trauma, have motivation to survive, and detach himself from his violent side, Pi creates a delusion. To begin with, he creates a delusion to lessen the trauma of the cook's murder and cannibalism of the sailor and Pi's mother. He replaces the humans with a hyena, zebra, and an orangutan as part of his delusion. Since Pi had been

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    Irony- Irony was spread throughout the novel of Life of Pi but the greatest example of irony that ties into the theme of this book is that even though Pi was stuck on a boat for seven months with a deadly tiger, the tiger was the reason why he survived. Pi states that Richard Parker was what kept him alive when he lands in Mexico by saying “Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life,” (Martel 285). This

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    Life Of Pi Animals Essay

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    Yann Martel’s Life of Pi On the Pacific Ocean, stranded, with only a tiger and a few other animals as company, is how Pi Patel spent 227 days. Life of Pi is written as a fable which M. H. Abrams defines as, “a short narrative, in prose or verse, that exemplifies an abstract moral thesis or principle of human behaviour”. Its association with animals makes it a beast fable, “In which animals talk and act like the human types they represent” (Abrams). In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, the function

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