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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to see the connection in everything. Pi shows us this through his findings about the importance of faith in his three oddly interconnecting religions Hinduism‚ Christianity‚ and Muslim. The importance of faith and understanding is also in part two of his story showing through his vivid and raw emotions that allows you to see a more of who Pi is. In Part his adult life we see that he has come almost to terms with who he is The point I am trying to prove is that Pi shows not only the importance of faith
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how the author uses dialect to characterize the character and how well the plot flows in the novel. Violence scene are not really necessary unless it is there to characterize the main character and how it impacts their life. In the book Life of Pi by Yann Martel‚ the main character Pi goes through many hard tasks and violent encounters that allow him to improve himself as a character. The goal of violent scenes are not there to ruin the plot but as a catalysis that will give a character in the novel
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contradictory ideas. For instance in the novel Life of Pi‚ Yann Martel portrays that religion is essential in a person’s life through the experiences of the protagonist‚ Pi Patel. Through one of Pi’s experiences Martel shows that religion can be used as a medium to ease self-burden. In addition religion provides a sense of comfort‚ and security through the presence of an eternal higher entity. Lastly religion gives people a sense of direction in life. It can be argued that a true connection with god
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Life of Pi Part 2‚ Chapter 37 Summary How It All Goes Down * Chapter 37 opens with the sentence‚ "The ship sank" (2.37.1). * Pi doesn’t tell us how or why yet – but he’s in a lifeboat‚ in the wind and the rain‚ encouraging Richard Parker the tiger‚ who is in the water‚ to swim up to him. * Pi throws Richard Parker a lifebuoy and just then realizes he probably shouldn’t invite strange tigers into his lifeboat. * Alas‚ Richard Parker jumps into the lifeboat‚ and Pi jumps overboard
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Life of Pi - Questions for Consideration: Chapters 37-49 1. Give three examples in 37-39 of how the ship is personified? What is the effect of this personification? a) The ship sank. It made a sound like a monstrous metallic burp. The effect of this personification is to show how large the ship was and helps to describe the scene of a massive object sinking. b) All around me was the vomit of a dyspeptic ship. The personification here shows that when the ship sank many of the contents
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Life of Pi by Yann Martel The life of Pi is a novel based on the life of a 16 year old boy Piscine Patel‚ or Pi for short. Pi explains to the reader the reasoning behind his very unusual name. He gets this from the French translation of pool‚ which is Piscine‚ and from a pool in Paris‚ in which his best friend used to swim in. He shortened his name to escape the taunting “Pissing Patel” “He raised his arm‚ pointed at me and shouted‚ "It’s Pissing Patel!" And he therefor renamed himself after
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Life of Pi Essay Kamalpreet. Singh The Life of Pi was a story about a boy Indian boy named Piscine Patel was stranded at sea for 222 days after his ship which was going to Canada with his family sank. The story starts with him growing up as a child and practicing on his own accord many different cultures such as Hinduism‚ Islam and Christianity as this is happening the amount of money the zoo makes compared to the work they do coupled with his fathers will to stay with the times‚ forces his
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Life of Pi Analytical Essay In the novel Life of Pi‚ Yann Martel uses the protagonist Pi to demonstrate how faith‚ ritual and one’s will to live save one from the barbaric and carnivorous reality. Pi Patel‚ lover of faith and various gods and their beliefs loses his family after a shipwreck and drifts on the Pacific Ocean with a zebra‚ hyena‚ orangutan and a tiger‚ Richard Parker each struggling in their own way to survive. Yann Martel uses the protagonist Pi to claim that one retains his or her
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father did when his father was alive. In the story of Life of Pi‚ it talks about Pi how he is stranded in the middle of the ocean on a lifeboat with a tiger (Richard Parker)‚ with nothing to eat or drink. The author explains the extreme areas of living of Keesh and Pi. It explains how Keesh survived during his time while hunting out for more meat. It explains how Pi was living alone with a Richard Parker on a lifeboat. In the Story‚ Life of Pi‚ Pi is stranded on a lifeboat on the ocean. He has no
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