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Comparing Films 'Life Oh Pi And Big Fish'
Ashley Larson
Period 2
Mr. Randolph
Life of Pi Comparison Essay

Something Amazing

The films, Life oh Pi and Big Fish have imaginary stories that are told through the lives of Pi Patel, and Edward Bloom. Pi Patel and Edward Bloom’s stories are very different, but at the end of both films the Japanese officials started to believe Pi. Similar to how Will Bloom, Edward’s son starts to believe the stories his father has been telling him. In each film the central theme is that the Japanese Officials and Will Bloom didn’t believe what they were hearing.
In Life of Pi, something amazing happens to Pi. Pi’s life is saved while he survived with a tiger named Richard Parker. Pi is interviewed by two Japanese officials. The Japanese officials
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