Life of Pi
Martel's "The Life of Pi" is a coming of age story about a young man's reaching maturity through tragic but uplifting story of loss and miraculous survival. The story is based on a journey which contains adventure, tradgedy, humour, and also the survival of the fittest mentality. Yann Martel depicts a story of a youth who seeks knowledge, wisdom, connectivity, and spirituality through religeon and zoology. Applying the craft's he has practiced and is taught, protagonist Pi Patel seeks survival on a stranded boat with an orrangatang, a tiger, an injured zebra and a hyena.
Yann Martel's tail starts off with Pi chronicaling his life in India in a city called "Pondicherriy". Pi is a student, he characterizes his life through zoology, and religeon. His father is an owner of a zoo in India and he teaches his sons (Pi, and Ravi) the livliness and the demeanor of the animals. Pi takes precaution and listens too what is said and learns how to control and care for the wild animals in the zoo. Later on in the story, his experiences and what he is taught becomes a valuable asset in his survival. Actively he has been practicing the hindu religeon ever since he was born, but his curiousity and act of innocence is lead too to him experiencing a few more religeons. He questions the spirituality, the beliefs, and explores the religeous practicing of Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. The thing that is interchangeable too Pi in contrast too these three religeons is the belief and value that they have preserved for God. They all worship god and too him its miracoulous because as he is confronted about why he is practicing 3 religeons at once his response is "I just want god". "Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims". (Martel, 2002)
Yann Martel's tail starts off with Pi chronicaling his life in India in a city called "Pondicherriy". Pi is a student, he characterizes his life through zoology, and religeon. His father is an owner of a zoo in India and he teaches his sons (Pi, and Ravi) the livliness and the demeanor of the animals. Pi takes precaution and listens too what is said and learns how to control and care for the wild animals in the zoo. Later on in the story, his experiences and what he is taught becomes a valuable asset in his survival. Actively he has been practicing the hindu religeon ever since he was born, but his curiousity and act of innocence is lead too to him experiencing a few more religeons. He questions the spirituality, the beliefs, and explores the religeous practicing of Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. The thing that is interchangeable too Pi in contrast too these three religeons is the belief and value that they have preserved for God. They all worship god and too him its miracoulous because as he is confronted about why he is practicing 3 religeons at once his response is "I just want god". "Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims". (Martel, 2002)