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 of Pi is the
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Life of Pi Essay prompts Directions: Choose one of the prompts below. Construct a well thought-out essay that demonstrates the skills you have gained this year. First‚ write out or type up your thesis statement and topic sentences. After receiving teacher feedback‚ develop a first draft. Again‚ using the writing rules you know and the strategies you’ve learned‚ show evidence of proof-reading on this first draft. Turn these two artifacts (thesis and topic sentences & proof-read draft) in on the
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Life of Pi‚ by Yann Martel‚ starts off with an elderly man in Pondicherry‚ India‚ telling one of the authors‚ “I have a story that will make you believe in God” (x). The author stops and thinks‚ Was this some Jehovah Witness knocking on my door? (x). This author‚ Yann Martel‚ is from Canada‚ where our other author‚ Piscine Molitor Patel‚ is from Pondicherry‚ India. Piscine is a middle eastern boy who’s family owns a zoo‚ with magnificent animals. Piscine does not like his name‚ because of all the
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I completely disagree with everything that the book Life of Pi states because its assertions are too unrealistic. One of the main points that the Life of Pi states that there is such thing as a God is because he is there to comfort us. While I completely agree that many people do feel really safe if they believe in God‚ I can not believe that Pi would feel as safe as he did just because of an intangible object like God. When Pi decided to change religions‚ he sighted the Hindu God as someone that
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The Aura of Orange Human‚ animal‚ plants‚ and all the Earth’s content is survivor. They are fighting for their rights in order to live in this beautiful world. The novel Life of Pi written by Yann Martel‚ has employed a lot of symbols that is related to the life. One of the most significant symbols is the color orange. The author uses orange as a symbol of maintenance of the spirit to survive in survival. This can be proved as most of the objects that are in the color orange in the novel generate
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that called Life of Pi written by Yann Martel is Pi who challenges with many issues in his journey from India to Canada. One of the issues is living alone on the lifeboat in the middle of ocean with a Bengal tiger for while. One can learn to deal with fear as Pi deals with the tiger that called Richard Parker. Pi faces his fears‚ takes practical steps‚ persevere‚ and acknowledge his fears. The most dangerous fear that Pi deals with is Richard Parker who has no mercy on his victims. Pi knows that
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this book‚ Life of Pi‚ is the color orange. This color appears very often throughout the book. Orange is a color of survival and of hope. All the things that would and could help Pi survive were orange. “…the whole inside of the boat and the tarpaulin and the life jackets and the lifebuoy and the oars and most every other significant object aboard was orange” (Martel). Without these things‚ Pi surely would have died. Orange Juice‚ the orangutan was also the color orange‚ and she helped Pi emotionally
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within a Journey The characters development is established with physical and psychological aspects throughout the journey. The novel The Kite Runner‚ Amir achieves redemption by seeking Sohrab and transforming his life. Furthermore‚ throughout the novel Life of Pi‚ the relationship between Pi and Richard Parker is established by overcoming multiple barriers. In the same way‚ the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog and the Night-Time illustrates Christopher difficult moments during his journey to independence
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Christophe Auber Grade: 11 Life of Pi by Yann Martel tells the story of a sixteen year old religious boy‚ called Pi Patel‚ who survives in a boat for 227 days after a shipwreck. I believe this book deserves to win the Man Booker Prize not for the story it tells but for the thoughts it brings to our minds. The first interesting idea that is brought up by this novel is the conflict between religions. In the book this is shown by the arguing of the priest‚ the monk‚ and the Muslim man over
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Poem On Life Of Pi By: Aadil Younis I’m about to tell a story‚ from a couple of years back‚ You think that you know but you only know half‚ I told you all‚ i was stuck on a raft‚ but what you don’t know‚ is within myself i was trapped‚ I made up lies and stories to protect me‚ I prayed to God maybe he would resurect me‚ But in those days God took away his blessings‚ over every little thing i noticed i was stressing‚ I was leaving behind my life‚ all the time i would think‚ untill
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