Yann Martel's Life Of Pi
“It’s a question of brain over brawn,” (Martel 26) or rather in Martel's story it is a question of purpose over sheer nonsense. Organization is the main stage in all decent or better books. The author can use organization to their advantage but it can also cause a disadvantage. In, The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel the main character, 16 year old Pi Patel is an abnormal teen with even more abnormal daily activities. Pi’s life is constantly changing in his though his practice in Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Pi also show a special interest for zoology, most likely stemming from the fact that he grew up in the zoo. Growing up in the zoo taught him many important lessons. Lessons like feed a goat to a lion, and saying the most dangerous animal
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Not only the constant change of topics hurts the author's ability to send his message but the really short chapters also play a detrimental disadvantage to the theme. In chapter 2 the author jumps forward in time, which happens a lot, but instead of elaborating on a particular reason for this the author adds it like a side note, having nothing to do with the current situation, and being completely ignored later. This single paragraph, 11 sentence mini story tells the reader about the future Pi. This not only gives away much information but it causes the reader to know that in man vs nature, man did not lose. The author tells that Pi, “lives in Scarborough...he launched forward.”(Martel 6) Not only do the short chapters not help the expression of the theme but rather hurt it, in the given quote is very obvious that there is also that constant change of topics. This off topic section does not do anything or even start to suggest the theme of man vs Nature but instead chooses to hurt the expression of theme by not even touching it. Not only were the constant change in topics and the really short chapters negatively impacting the expression of the theme but so is the constant change between current and future, as previously stated in last example. During chapter 11/12 the author changes tenses, commonly disliked among the grading system especially at the rate in which the author chooses to do it. The chapters start out in the current tense where the author explains about how “If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it, you would be amazed at the animals that would fall out” (Martel 25) ,and then
Not only the constant change of topics hurts the author's ability to send his message but the really short chapters also play a detrimental disadvantage to the theme. In chapter 2 the author jumps forward in time, which happens a lot, but instead of elaborating on a particular reason for this the author adds it like a side note, having nothing to do with the current situation, and being completely ignored later. This single paragraph, 11 sentence mini story tells the reader about the future Pi. This not only gives away much information but it causes the reader to know that in man vs nature, man did not lose. The author tells that Pi, “lives in Scarborough...he launched forward.”(Martel 6) Not only do the short chapters not help the expression of the theme but rather hurt it, in the given quote is very obvious that there is also that constant change of topics. This off topic section does not do anything or even start to suggest the theme of man vs Nature but instead chooses to hurt the expression of theme by not even touching it. Not only were the constant change in topics and the really short chapters negatively impacting the expression of the theme but so is the constant change between current and future, as previously stated in last example. During chapter 11/12 the author changes tenses, commonly disliked among the grading system especially at the rate in which the author chooses to do it. The chapters start out in the current tense where the author explains about how “If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it, you would be amazed at the animals that would fall out” (Martel 25) ,and then