Survivor: Cook Islands

and religious leaders. The three religions he decides to put his faith in are Christianity, Hindu, and Islam. When his family decides to board a ship to Canada, the trip seems to be going well until the storm. The ship sinks leaving Pi as the only survivor, or so he thinks. He realizes he is on a lifeboat with an injured zebra until he helps a Royal Bengal tiger, Richard Parker, on board, a decision he quickly regrets. There is also a hyena and an orangutan named Orange Juice. This book tells the journey

favor.” In other words you will need luck in order to survive the battle you are going to enter. Lord of the Flies is a classic literature book published in 1954 by William Golding, a British author. This book is about a group of boys stranded on an island during WWII and they turned into savages in order for survival. The Hunger Games is a pop culture literature book published in 2008 as well as a movie released in 2012, which written by Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games is about a dystopian society

to the Americas, and were “passed off” as having been born in Cuba. After the revolt, the Africans demanded to be returned home, but the ship’s navigator lied to them about their course, and sailed them north along the North American coast to Long Island, New York. The schooner was subsequently taken into custody by the United States Navy. The Africans, who were deemed salvage from the vessel, were taken to Connecticut to be sold as slaves. A widely publicized court case ensued about the ship and

This was led by Joseph Cinque; first they took out the cook by killed him to death in sleep. After the African had control of Amistad they order Jose and Pedro to take them back to Sierra Leone. But Jose and Pedro had other plan at nighttime there was turn the ship around and headed north and west and hope of being in the hope of being rescued. On August 26 a United State Navy had ran into the Amistad off the eastern end of Long Island. Jose and Pedro was freed from the Africans and the African

Life of Pi begins with an unique hook in its author’s note. In the author’s note, the fictional author is struggling to come up with a new book concept. He travels to India for inspiration and this is where he meets Francis Adirubasamy, or better known as Mamaji in the book. Adirubasamy claims that he has “a story that will make you believe in God”. After he recounts on the story, the author is determined to meet up with the main character, and he was reeled into the amazing world known as the

what meets the idea. Writers may employ such symbols to convey various themes in a work. For example, the storyline in The Life of Pi presents many connections between animals and humans. The animals on the life raft are believed to be human survivors that Pi had been with. Throughout the novel, there are many signs of connections between these characters and why each one was assigned to that animal. In developing such connections between the animals and the humans, the author delves

The majority of the diverse American population knows a little something about the topic, slavery. Whether they’ve learned about it from a chapter of a textbook or an educational film from their history class, or have heard stories of their ancestors passed down from generation to generation, we all have an idea of what slavery is. However, we do not know the basics. For example, when did slavery come into play? How did this manner of treating “uncivilized” people like property become accepted, and

of needs consists of five levels such as: Physiological, Safety, Love, Esteem, and Self Actualization. Does Pi have what it takes to overcome these obstacles by using the five levels of hierarchy? Life of Pi by Yann Martel, tells a story about a survivor on a life boat with a dead Zebra, Hyena, Orangutan and a tiger he names Richard Parker for 226 days on a boat stranded in the middle of nowhere. Pi grew up being a Hindu but as he gets older, he starts to

Day 1: I awoke covered in sand with the sun beating down on my face. Looking into the vast ocean upon me I knew I had survived the plane crash, but how could I have ended up on this mysterious island? I sat there for a moment trying to piece together what had occurred. It was June 17, 1979 and I was on a plane heading to Bosnia for a mission trip when the plane encountered engine problems. There were several loud booms coming from the cockpit when suddenly a huge explosion rips through the fuselage

subconscious. Yet, what occurs when a situation allows an individual to react in a behaviour that doesn’t follow these defining factors of human nature? In Yann Martel 's Life of Pi, he creates the conflict of a cargo ship sinking, and the only notable survivors on the life raft consists of a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, an orangutan, and a 16-year-old Indian boy. The protagonist of the novel, Pi Patel, is faced with a personal survival conflict