12A Humanities Life Of Pi Essay #5 25 February 2013 Acting and speaking before THINKING‚ this goes back to a humans’ primitive stage. We are all animals‚ in the sense that we are mammals. Manifested through our psyche or personality‚ each animal has a different representation. From personality traits‚ behavior or even symbolism‚ animals have the ability to portray these features in humans. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi‚ four distinct animals are manifested
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note of Life of Pi‚ an anonymous author meets Francis Adirubasamy‚ an elderly man who offered to tell him a story fantastic enough to give him faith in God. Pi narrates part one and explains that he has suffered intensely and found solace in religion and zoology. Pi refers to reason as fools gold for the bright. Fools gold is science and reality. The real treasure is faith and imagination. Imagination and art leads to belief and dreams that can be killed by crude reality. In Life of Pi‚ Pi’s father
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TOBI: In his book the “Life of Pi” by Yann Martell‚ the author makes multiple references to animal behavior. Through this project we have researched each of the four animals: the zebra‚ Orangutan‚ Hyena‚ and the Tiger on their lifestyles and behavior. In order to write this book Yann Martel explained that he had to do a lot of research on zoo biology and animal psychology. In addition he spent 6 months doing research in India‚ where he visited every single zoo he could find in southern India.
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Life of Pi‚ by Yann Martel‚ tells two interesting stories; one with animals and one without animals. Pi tells both stories and says‚ “You can’t prove which story is true and which is not. You must take my word for it. […] Which story do you prefer? Which is the better story‚ the story with animals or the story without animals?” This allows readers to choose. The story with the animals is the better story because the animals as humans represent Pi’s way of coping with traumatic events; it is more
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Everyone can pick an animal that they believe describes themselves or symbolizes themselves‚ but in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi he takes those characteristics to a new level. The symbolism of a zebra‚ a hyena‚ an orangutan‚ and a tiger all contribute to the characteristics of Pi and his journey through the sea‚ together‚ on a life boat. A zebra can symbolize many things; from yin and yang to individualism. With symbolism it becomes the reader’s choice to decide what a symbol becomes and symbolizes
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Throughout literary history‚ animals have been utilized in tales to convey moral ideologies. Frequently‚ these animals interact with the human race. This literary technique is modeled in the novel Life of Pi. This novel details the adventure of Piscine "Pi" Martel as he is stranded in the Pacific Ocean with a hyena‚ a zebra‚ a orangutan named Orange Juice‚ and a tiger named Richard Parker. Pi is polyreligious; he is a Hindu‚ Christian‚ and Muslim. Pi’s religious beliefs aid him in his struggle
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Pi (short for Piscine Molitor Patel) is a young Indian boy growing up in South India in the 1970’s. His father owns a zoo and‚ with increasing political unrest in India‚ decides to sell up and emigrate to Canada. In true Noah’s ark fashion‚ they accompany the wild animals on board the ship on their journey to the new zoos in North America. The ship sinks and Pi finds himself the only human survivor onboard a life raft that contains‚ rather remarkably‚ a zebra‚ a large motherly orangutan‚ a frenzied
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Author Yann Martel Original title Life of Pi Country Canada Language English Genre Fiction Publisher Knopf Canada Publication date September 2001 Life of Pi is divided into four sections. In the first section the main character Pi Patel‚ an adult Canadian‚ reminisces about his childhood in India. His father owns a zoo in Pondicherry. The livelihood provides the family with a relatively affluent lifestyle and some understanding of animal psychology. Pi describes how he acquired his full
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“Life of Pi” is about this boy called Pi‚ who is the son of a zookeeper in India. He grew up in a zoo and was extremely happy at home learning all about the animals that lived around him. This boy‚ who is a Hindu‚ found himself attracted to Islam and Christianity as well‚ so he practiced 3 religions at the same time. When Pi’s father decided to leave India‚ Pi’s family‚ along with some animals from the zoo‚ boarded a cargo ship bound for Canada. Unfortunately‚ the ship sank. Pi was the only human
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Life of Pi Final Essay Life of Pi is the kind of story that really makes you think. There were so many different aspects of the book that I didn’t understand when we started reading that make sense now. One of those features is Pi’s story. During the time when we read that section of the book I didn’t even think about the truth behind it‚ I just read. Now that we have finished the book and we got to hear both of Pi’s stories‚ I’m not sure which I believe‚ but if I had to choose I would say
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