Life Of Pi Literary Analysis

In the world's wide spectrum of stories that are to either be told or written, stories have elements. Their elements being: characters, plot, setting, and etc. No matter the story, what mainly fabricates these imaginary or real events are characters. In Life of Pi, we are being told about life from a boy's perspective. The boy's name is Piscine Patel and later becomes to be known as Pi (Martel 23). Pi is a boy who was born in India and his initial religion being Hindu (50). As the story progresses, we acknowledge that he is inspired by his father named Santosh Patel. Santosh Patel is known to be a father, but also known for his previous status as a owner for a hotel. Due to his devotion to curiosity and love for nature, he abandoned his position
They had gone on a ship to voyage to Canada. In the sequence of events, the ship ends up sinking. Pi manages to escape the sinking vessel by grabbing hold of a lifeboat (104-105). A zebra, orangutan, hyena, and a lion manage to escape on the tiny vessel. They all find themselves stranded in open waters without a semblance of land. Without a way out, the hyena kills the zebra and the orangutan(128-133). Out of the blue, the lion attacks and murders the hyena. Pi and the lion are now the last survivors (155-156). Pi and the lion named Richard Parker; acknowledge that they will have to trust one another in order to survive. Reviewing the story, we gather a great picture as the story develops. Life of Pi has depicted the will to live. What Life of Pi has shown us is being able to survive through insurmountable odds. In the midst of surviving, all the organisms that were on the lifeboat fought to survive. Pi was a vegetarian and he abandoned vegetarianism to eat fish in order to keep living. Also the orangutan fought for it's life, against the hyena before it was brutally consumed. Martel shows us that animals will often do such extraordinary action in order to