When faced with a life and death situation‚ people will often do amazing‚ heroic‚ and shameful things to survive. Yann Martel’s brilliant novel The Life of Pi has many themes. The story revolves around an Indian boy‚ who upon being faced with a shipwreck catastrophe is forced to remain in the ocean for 227 days with a live tiger on board. As a deeply religious person‚ he is in a constant battle between morality and his will to exist; and how far he must go in order to do so. The main theme in Life
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life in India. In part one‚ I really liked where Mamaji taught Piscine to swim. Looking back it proved to be a very important for Pi’s survival I dislike stories where the hero’s journey is clearly defined anda once weak man overcomes unrealistic circumstances to become a stronger man. That was not the case in this book. I like the realness of the book‚ especially in the case of Richard Parker. He wasn’t personified in any way really. He was what I think a natural tiger would be given the conditions
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needs‚ in order to survive they must meet their emotional needs to keep their sanity‚ they must also keep their spiritual needs‚ to keep tranquility in the midst of their survival. Yann Martel’s The Life of Pi the story of Piscine Molitor Patel‚ a man who survives 227 days in the pacific with the company of a bengal tiger after a ship carrying him and his family sank. Yann Martel shows how Pi’s knowledge and unique beliefs help him meet his various needs‚ and this is the main reason he is able to
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Coetzee’s Disgrace On Rape and Responsibility Throughout the course of Disgrace‚ Coetzee attempts to juxtapose the rape of Melanie with that of Lucy. By analyzing the actions of David Lurie‚ Lucy and Petrus‚ it becomes apparent that there is a dynamometric sense of responsibility among victims and abusers. Coetzee attempts to demonstrate that rape is more than a gendered based crime‚ that social class‚ and ethnicity also play roles in determining what harm is committed. It is because the rapes
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and the hyena killed the orangutan‚ just like how Pi’s mother hit the cook‚ and then the cook stabbed his mother. Mr. Okamoto came to a conclusion that the hyena represented the cook (the cook is also the blind Frenchman who admitted to killing a man and a women)‚ the orangutan represented Pi’s mother‚ the zebra represented the Chinese sailor and as for Richard Parker‚ he represented Pi‚ because he killed the
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Royal Bengal tiger with whom Pi shares his lifeboat. He kills the hyena on the lifeboat and the blind cannibal. With Pi‚ however‚ Richard Parker acts as an omega‚ or submissive‚ animal‚ respecting Pi’s dominance. Francis Adirubasamy – The elderly man who tells the author Pi’s story during a chance meeting in a Pondicherry coffee shop. He taught Pi to swim as a child and bestowed upon him his unusual moniker. He arranges for the author to meet Pi in person‚ so as to get a first-person account of
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where he had to learn survival skills like hunting‚ and it was his former aspirations to become Red Hood that kept him driving. Having previously taken everything in his life for granted‚ this experience taught him self-reliance and made him into a man. After fighting his way through and nearly off the island‚ his final test at new character was faced by two street-level drug smugglers under a crime lord on the
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“The Real Story in Life of Pi The difference between fiction and reality is not always evident to those who are unable or unwilling to recognize the difference.” In Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi‚ he wants the reader to decipher whether his first story or his second story is real. The first story consists of the protagonist‚ Piscine Patel‚ being trapped on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger‚ Richard Parker‚ and many other animals from his father’s zoo after they were lost together at sea. In the second
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king makes people choose between two doors. Behind one door waits a hungry tiger who will tear the person apart. Behind the other stands a woman who they will marry the moment the person opens the door no matter what. The king had a daughter. A man fell in love with her and her father was not happy. The princess tried to point to a door but her lover did not understand. The princess did not want him marrying another woman so she was filled with jealousy. The princess secretly pointed to the
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Life of Pi there are animals as far as the eye can read. But it is not only Life of Pi that can be a great example of animals in literature‚ Elizabeth Bishop’s‚ “The Fish” and William Blake’s‚ “The Tyger” can too. Life of Pi is a story of a young man who lives his childhood in India with his father running the Pondicherry Zoo. Since he grows up being at the zoo everyday he gains lots of experience with the animals that he is surrounded by. While he and his family are transporting their animals on
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