It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever‚ treacherous adversary‚ how well I know. It has no decency‚ respects no law or convention‚ shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot‚ which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind‚ always. One moment you are feeling calm‚ self-possessed‚ happy. Then fear‚ disguised in the grab of mild-mannered doubt‚ slips into your mind like a spy." (Martel 163) Pi was someone who you may never have thought could survive
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The use of humans instead of animals presents a more plausible view of Pi’s story. Pi has lived in a zoo his whole life; through his eyes‚ their actions are entirely expected. Alternatively‚ the reader may have no knowledge of wild animals. Using people to represent animals surpasses this problem; they are a familiar figure that they encounter daily. The theme of ‘reality versus fiction’ is highlighted
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The story Life Of Pi is an outstanding adventure‚ showing the will to survive. Nature creates lives yet can very so easily take a life. Pi must face the harsh conditions at sea and fight against the elements in order to stay alive‚ he faces hunger‚ dehydration‚ and mentally struggles with reality and life among the lifeboat. Ultimately nature takes everything from Pi including his family‚ and his family’s fortune. The night of the explosion and “The Sinking of Tsimtsum” Pi is left alone with wild
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Life of Pi is intended‚ so Martel tells us‚ to make the reader believe in God. This bold‚ apparently evangelical‚ premise locates it on a dangerous moral high ground. D.H. Lawrence warned against using the novel as a forum for the author to assert his own moral or religious belief: Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale‚ to pull down the balance to his own predilection‚ that is immorality. (D.H. Lawrence‚ "Morality and the
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Life of Pi Chapter Questions Author’s Note Who do you think is writing the author’s note? Is this part of the fiction of Life of Pi‚ or separate from the story? PART ONE Chapter 1 What does the sloth symbolize to Pi? Chapter 2 Why do you think the author interrupts the story with this chapter? Chapter 3 Why is Pi named after the Piscine Molitor? Chapter 4 Pi states that the common believe that animals in the zoos are unhappy is “nonsense” (16). What response does he give
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at sea and fighting for his life the reader immediately thinks of archetypal survival novels such as Robinson Crusoe or Shipwrecked. Yann Martel separates Life of Pi from other novels‚ by adding multiple dimensions and plot twists. This makes it much more than a survival story. Martel guides the reader through multiple versions of reality‚ drops barriers between truth and fiction and offers a change from a typical narrative style. Life of Pi is the story of Piscine (Pi) Patel’s journey to Canada
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save them from making mistakes later in life. In the novel Life of Pi‚ Santosh‚ Pi’s father wishes to save his boys from future fatal blunders. His lesson was done in somewhat a harsh way but it was necessary‚ any other way may not have been effective‚ and it accomplished what he wanted it to. Some would view this father’s lesson as harsh and a little much for two young boys. However when you know your children will be spending ample time around animals unsupervised‚ it is necessary that they
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Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi is the story of Piscine Molitor Patel‚ also known as Pi‚ who at the age of sixteen survived for 227 days on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean. The boat consisted of a hyena‚ an orang-utan‚ a zebra‚ and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker; later on the true story is revealed which is without any animals. Early in the novel the reader is told that this story will convince one to believe in God‚ each of the two different versions are a metaphor to understanding
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At the beginning of chapter 8 of The Life of Pi‚ Pi stated that man is the most dangerous animal in a zoo. (Martel 29) In the same way‚ Pi’s father took this to a whole level when he painted on a wall by the entrance of the zoo a question that was memorable to all visitors: “DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO?” An arrow was pointing to a curtain. When visitors will reveal what’s behind the curtain‚ it was a mirror. (Martel 31) This is quite interesting the way Pi’s father revealed
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Psychoanalysis of Life of Pi After a traumatic event‚ a type of therapy known as psychoanalysis is used to help the victim of the event reach closure. Psychoanalysis is a system of psychological theory and therapy that aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind. Many people have read the novel Life of Pi‚ by Yann Martel‚ and interpreted it from a psychoanalytic perspective. This theory consists of three critical segments:
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