Life Of Pi Rhetoric

In great works of literary merit, readers look at how the author uses dialect to characterize the character and how well the plot flows in the novel. Violence scene are not really necessary unless it is there to characterize the main character and how it impacts their life. In the book Life of Pi by Yann Martel, the main character Pi goes through many hard tasks and violent encounters that allow him to improve himself as a character. The goal of violent scenes are not there to ruin the plot but as a catalysis that will give a character in the novel a chance to improve their current depiction by the audience. At the end of the novel, the audience will see that the character has gone through a growth from what the audience saw at the beginning of the novel to the end. In the novel, Pi is shown as a stranded boy on sea with all sorts of animals with limited amount of supplies. With animals such as a tiger and hyena, which are carnivorous in the same boat as other animals including Pi, the audience can assume that there will be some conflict among the group. At the end, its only Pi and Richard Parker (Tiger) left on the boat. In order to prevent himself being eaten by RP and remembering the advice his father gave him, he has to train RP and show that Pi is the boss around here and that he is
Violent scenes are not there to ruin the plot but act as reinforcements that allow the character to grow. In Life of Pi, Pi is show to show dramatic growth as a character from the beginning of the shipwreck, as a normal boy, to the end where he is seen almost savage like. Also the audience understand this growth by looking at the character’s past encounters and events that led them up to this point. Violent scenes act like steel beams on a building; without them, the building, the plot, will fall down and there will no interest in the