Life Of Pi Rhetorical Analysis
This prose is an extract of the, magical realism, book “Life of PI” that was written by Yann Martel in 2001. This extract describe the sank of the ship that Piscine and his family where and Pi’s feeling and reflection of this situation, as only him and the tiger from their zoo, Richard Parker survived.
In the beginning of the prose there is a comparison between the screaming of the sea, the wind and Pi’s heart, this personification shows how upset he felt later on, as he himself felt the storm. In the seventh line, Pi is could see the tigers head, to express his happiness he says “Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu”. This represents faith but a conclusion can be made that following three different religions might mean that he is following …show more content…
In addition contrast is used many times in the poem to show how both, the tiger and Pi, tried to fight against their fate even tough they were very week. Moreover, some rhetorical questions reinforce this idea of fighting against fate as in line 22 when Pi asks Parker “Don’t you love life? Keep swimming then!”
In lines 17, 34, 36 and 44 the author writes onomatopoeic words to create sound imaginary, and I my opinion it is very important in order to set up the mood and to help to picture the scene in question.
In the 9th paragraph PI ask a series of rhetorical question, this show his unconformity about what have happened and also wondering why the only alive creature was Richard Parker. At this point in time, nothing made sense for him. This paragraph ends quite interestingly, “ Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there’s so little fish to catch?” (line 30). This quote points towards the limitations of reason, as we could see in lines 7 and 16 Pi adopts three different and supposedly mutually exclusive religions, and then finds that being stranded on a boat in the middle of the ocean is about so much more than mere survival, as his various encounters show. Maybe this attack on reason is the most eloquently capture in the two different stories of Pi and what …show more content…
This is followed by “Something in me did not want to give up on life, was unwilling to let go, and wanted to fight for the very end.” In my point of view it is a very important line on this extract as it well describe PI’s feeling; the use of “not want”, “unwilling” “fight” creates tension and helps to develop the mood of desperation in the prose. “Isn't it ironic Richard Parker? We are living in the hell yet we afraid of immortality”, in this quote we can pull out many aspects one being the religion and faith as it express Pi's musings about spirituality and the afterlife. Also, even though Pi and the tiger are living in a “hell”, drifting through the Indian Ocean on a raft, they still fear the afterlife; they still fear being judged by their maker. I say "they" because Pi is obviously personifying his
In the beginning of the prose there is a comparison between the screaming of the sea, the wind and Pi’s heart, this personification shows how upset he felt later on, as he himself felt the storm. In the seventh line, Pi is could see the tigers head, to express his happiness he says “Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu”. This represents faith but a conclusion can be made that following three different religions might mean that he is following …show more content…
In addition contrast is used many times in the poem to show how both, the tiger and Pi, tried to fight against their fate even tough they were very week. Moreover, some rhetorical questions reinforce this idea of fighting against fate as in line 22 when Pi asks Parker “Don’t you love life? Keep swimming then!”
In lines 17, 34, 36 and 44 the author writes onomatopoeic words to create sound imaginary, and I my opinion it is very important in order to set up the mood and to help to picture the scene in question.
In the 9th paragraph PI ask a series of rhetorical question, this show his unconformity about what have happened and also wondering why the only alive creature was Richard Parker. At this point in time, nothing made sense for him. This paragraph ends quite interestingly, “ Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there’s so little fish to catch?” (line 30). This quote points towards the limitations of reason, as we could see in lines 7 and 16 Pi adopts three different and supposedly mutually exclusive religions, and then finds that being stranded on a boat in the middle of the ocean is about so much more than mere survival, as his various encounters show. Maybe this attack on reason is the most eloquently capture in the two different stories of Pi and what …show more content…
This is followed by “Something in me did not want to give up on life, was unwilling to let go, and wanted to fight for the very end.” In my point of view it is a very important line on this extract as it well describe PI’s feeling; the use of “not want”, “unwilling” “fight” creates tension and helps to develop the mood of desperation in the prose. “Isn't it ironic Richard Parker? We are living in the hell yet we afraid of immortality”, in this quote we can pull out many aspects one being the religion and faith as it express Pi's musings about spirituality and the afterlife. Also, even though Pi and the tiger are living in a “hell”, drifting through the Indian Ocean on a raft, they still fear the afterlife; they still fear being judged by their maker. I say "they" because Pi is obviously personifying his