In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel‚ there are three themes that seem to overpower throughout; religion‚ fear‚ and hope. When the main character in the novel‚ Pi‚ is forced to move the family’s zoo from Pondicherry India to Canada in search for a better life‚ their boat suddenly begins to sink in the middle of the pacific ocean. Miraculously Pi is the only human that survives. But unfortunately for this poor boy he is stuck on a 26 foot lifeboat with a zebra‚ an orangutan‚ a hyena‚ and a three
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In Life of Pi by Yann Martel‚ Pi has to go through many obstacles‚ which can make him cave in‚ and do things he is not proud of‚ leading him to his fate. “Courage without conscience is a wild beast” by Robert Green Ingersoll‚ describes that doing things without your conscience could get you harmed in the process. Pi demonstrates in the novel the necessary skills needed for survival‚ which were bestowed upon him as he listened to his conscience. Pi’s conscience prevented him from experiencing‚ or
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his time in Pondicherry to the end of his seemingly ceaseless time at sea‚ he is faced with many troublesome dilemmas and life-threatening situations‚ all of which try the vitality of his faith and his will to live. Through the story of Pi’s life‚ Martel shows
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in the novel ‘Life of Pi’ is religion and the significance and importance of it is portrayed throughout the novel. In the novel ‘Life of Pi’ by Yann Martel‚ Martel shows the importance of religion in Pi’s life‚ as religion helped Pi understand the nature of animals‚ also helped him in his daily life and helped keep Pi from giving up on life. Yann Martel portrays the events as real and tries to convince us what we are going to read. In the author’s note‚ he describes that he went to India after the
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tigers can really be. “‘Tigers are very dangerous.’ father shouted. ‘I want you to understand that you are never -under any circumstances -to touch a tiger‚ to pet a tiger‚ to put your hands through the bars of a cage‚ even to get close to a cage’” (Martel 42). After telling him this his father shows Pi how a tiger eats. Quickly Pi learns and is horrified and scared by the it’s carnivorous demeanor. From that day on Pi looks at animals differently and keeps his space between them and him. Until the
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Richard Parker Character Critical Essay: “Life of Pi” is a novel about a sixteen year old boy named Piscine Patel who survives for 227 days on a lifeboat at sea after he loses his family in s shipwreck. Pi is interviewed at the end of the book by two men from the ships company who do not accept his first story which involves a number of animals on the lifeboat with him. He then tells a much more brutal‚ realistic story where the animals are now metaphor for humans. The reader is then left to decide
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“Showing convincingly how characters develop and so achieve a sense of identity is an essential way in which novelists and poets engage fully with their readers” Identity‚ in Life of Pi‚ is crucial to the storyline and plot. We‚ as the reader‚ see the transition of Pi Patel‚ finding and developing qualities within himself that help him to finally overcome his great ordeal at sea. The one thing‚ arguably‚ that keeps Pi alive is identity; the exploration for identity is unique to humanity and is
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Jeff Ramos English101 Mr. Adams 11-21-2012 What to Believe In the novel Life of Pi‚ Yann Martel uses the protagonist Pi to demonstrate how faith‚ ritual and ones will to live save one from the barbaric and carnivorous reality. Pi Patel‚ lover of faith and various gods and their beliefs loses his family after a shipwreck and drifts on the Pacific Ocean with the zebra‚ hyena‚ orangutan and tiger named Richard Parker‚ each struggling in their own way to survive. In the end‚ Pi presents two different
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31 x 3— 93 days! The instructions also suggested survivors restrict themselves to half a liter of water every twenty-four hours. I counted the cans of water. There were 124. Each contained half a liter. So I had water rations to last me 124 days’’ (Martel 91). When the water flowed through his system the feeling of water grasping his throat giving him the moral that water was a symbol represented as he said “Liquid is Life”. Which indeed‚ gave him hope that the water he received was another way of
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and disappear by morning. At first Pi thinks the island is a delusion‚ “I was getting used to my delusion. To make it last I refrained from putting a strain on it; when the lifeboat nudged the island‚ I did not move‚ only continued to dream.” But Martel spends too long with the island for it to just be a delusion. Pi describes the island very precisely. It just doesn’t have the hazy feel of a delusion. One possibility is that the island represents some type of faith. When Pi first steps onto it he
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