Krystal Tam Mr. Wilson ENG4U 4 November 2014 Symbolism in Life of Pi Life of Pi‚ written by Yann Martel‚ has a complex plot. It is a story within a story. It is an adventure novel about a 16 year-old boy called Pi‚ who survives after the ship wrecks. He stays with a tiger on the ocean for 227 days. In the novel‚ the author uses various literary devices to present different themes. One of those devices is symbolism. Its presence is shown everywhere in the novel and it helps readers to truly understand
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Text One - Poem: A Small Keen Wind Thomas Blackburn My wife for six months now in sinister Tones has muttered incessantly about divorce‚ And‚ since of the woman I’m fond‚ this dark chatter Is painful as well as a bit monotonous. Still‚ marvel one must‚ when she fishes out of that trunk‚ Like rages‚ my shadier deeds for all to see With ‘This you did when you were sober‚ and that when drunk’‚ At the remarkable powers of memory. For although I wriggle like mad when she whistles up Some particularly
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The quality of ones life is very important but can sometimes be hard to measure. Many people may have there own opinion and different ways to measure someone’s life but I believe I picked the best characteristics in order to accurately measure the quality of someone’s life. The quality of ones life can be measured in psychological‚ social‚ and personal aspects. The first aspect that someone’s life could be measured by is there psychological characteristics. Someone’s life can be measured by there
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about the clash between Acoli and Western culture through his presentation of the ritual of dance? Throughout “Song of Lawino” p’Bitek represents various contrasts between Acoli and Western cultures‚ by focusing on different aspects of the every day life of the Acoli. His representations of the ritual of dance‚ which defamiliarises Western culture and ways‚ presents his passion to keep Acoli culture alive and strong‚ without it becoming westernized. P’Bitek’s desire is to provide an antidote to the
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a complex sentence‚ a Senate committee is believed to have found. (The Age‚ 13 September 2007) Nothing unites a country more than its common language because from a language comes a history and a culture. (John Howard quoted in Migrants to sit English test‚ ABC Online‚ 11 December 2006) Linguists suggest that some people deliberately choose a low status accent as a way of invoking prestige‚ although this is less common amongst women than men. The Australian-born children of migrants from Europe
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asking for more. Some ask for money‚ some ask for power‚ some ask for knowledge‚ some ask for love life‚ some ask for sex and whether we admit it or not there are these people who even ask for “life” per se. Uhhmm… but what is life really? Is it something that is given or is it something that is achieved? For my own discernment and with due respect to the opinion of everyone‚ I would have to say that life is something that is given. If you would ask me by whom then I doubt if I can give you a concrete
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child’s heart. At some point when we were little‚ we listened to the bed-time stories as if they were real‚ we depended on the happily-ever stories as our source of faith‚ knowing that someday‚ we will all strive for our own happy endings. In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel Pi is a character stranded at sea with no way out. Throughout the journey Pi uses his faith to overcome adversity and survive. Pi’s strong faith proved to be the key in keeping Pi mentally tough providing him with hope to maintain
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Richard asked why all this was for ‚ it was difficult to bring it up but I had to be honest with him‚ we lost that magical feeling we both longed to have and apart from that Richard was so hectic with work that he had completely shut me out of his life and was giving me no attention at all. As soon as I opened up to him he started to shout at me ‚ I never saw this side of Richard ‚ its as though somebody stole his sanity. He wasn’t reasoning things out and at that point of time he just walked outside
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The Explorer’s Daughter Two sentence summary: The explorer’s daughter is less focused on the story itself‚ it describes the narwhal hunt‚ but with focusing on the usual elements such as suspense and plot development. Rather‚ it explores the moral and environmental issues around hunting by indigenous people. Author’s purpose (what she wanted to achieve) : - Telling the audience about the occurrence near her home. - Cultural ways. - Importance of the narwhal for the hunters and their
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From the day I started kindergarten up until the present‚ it has always been drilled in me the importance of having an education. My mother’s favorite line is‚ “It is your education or your life and it’s not the second one.” She emulated that belief in her intense involvement at all levels in the educational system. It has always been said that the greatest threat to our security is an uneducated society and we as a society should and must demand that of our leaders and of ourselves. As a family
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