Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

Julian Kraidelman
Mrs. Ghya
01/22/14
Period: 1
Language Arts

Life of Pi is a deep read with a lot of important conflicts inside of it, a fantastic book for the future to read. It shows a lot of different aspects of life, the will to survive, symbolism, and humanity/ religion powers and struggles are displayed. Good things and negative things can come out of being a survivor from a shipwreck. A struggle for survival, faith in humanity and religion, and the power of symbolism are huge parts of this book but more importantly life, and the future should be aware of that so they can study these very topics with better understanding.
While at sea, Pi was very lonely and had a rough time, but he changed as a person (for the better) because of it.
Before the day ended and Pi had his bed laid out in the trees, Pi got ahold of one. He kept on peeling and peeling the what he thought was fruit leaf after leaf. Eventually there was nothing left but one leaf, and a tooth inside of it. This meant that there had been someone else on this island in the middle of nowhere that died, and that the island was carnivorous. During that night the algae was glowing, Pi wanted to know what was going on so he threw one of the meerkats on the ground, and once it touched the floor it scurried back on the tree. There were ponds on the island where there were fish swimming in it during the day. At night fish bones rose to the surface of the ponds, the island was alive. At this moment Pi knew that he couldn’t stay on this island much longer. After restoring his health to the best of his ability, eating all the food he could find, he was ready to leave the island. Richard Parker followed the path of Pi. Just like Richard Parker this island symbolizes something. The island is a religion with the followers being the meerkats. Pi’s life boat represents faith and the
Pi tells the workers his story about how he was at sea with a tiger named Richard
Parker, a hyena, orangutang, and a dying zebra, and some how survived. Pi spoke about the island he encountered and how it came to life at night. The workers left the room after and spoke a bit and then came back. When they got back they said they do not believe the story, and don’t believe that bananas can float. (Pi presented the question if bananas can float earlier) Pi then gave the workers two bananas and said to fill up the sink and make them float. The workers did as told and were curiously thinking if bananas could actually float. Bananas in fact do float, and the workers were in aw. This was a metaphor saying you can never know what is true or not, unless you were there (or in the banana metaphor, experiment it) The workers enjoyed the story

but asked again, for what really happened because there were so many parts of the story that were “impossible” Pie responded with saying that the only reason why you think my story