Life of Pi Background Life of Pi is a fictional novel about the incredible journey of Pi Patel as he travels across the Pacific Ocean in the company of a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. During his journey‚ Pi is able to learn about survival at sea and the power of faith. Pi spends his early life in Pondicherry India. His family consists of his parents and his older brother Ravi. Because he grew up in a zoo‚ Pi learns at an early age many things about animal psychology and behavior. These things
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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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Trevor Smith Ms. Favro ENG4U-01 April 13th‚ 2013 Life of Pi: Quest or Enlightenment Over the course of this unit‚ I have read the so called “life changing” novel “The Life of Pi” by Yann Martel. This work of art happens to be a national best seller and has collected many literature awards. Piscine Molitor Patel‚ the young Indian protagonist is faced with a traumatic set of events which developed into a marvelous story of a castaway’s voyage‚ in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. This essay will discuss
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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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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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extraordinary experience. An example of this is the novel‚ “Life of Pi” because Pi grows from boy to man. He had to mature very quickly by having to take care of himself in order to survive. Pi protects himself physically‚ mentally‚ and emotionally. Pi believed in faith throughout the book to get through the situation that he was in. Pi uses an allegory of himself in the form of Richard Parker throughout the novel. Pi protects himself physically by scavenging. An example of this
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Life of Pi is a suspenseful novel with a treacherous plot line and has human and animal characters. It has numerous conflicts and life-changing themes. The author in Life of Pi creates many literary devices to animate the story. This book has lots of the unusual settings. Life of Pi is a first-class book to read. Life of Pi has many major and minor characters. Pi is the protagonist of the story. He is a teenage Indian boy who practices three religions‚ and his father is a zookeeper. Richard Parker
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Theme Essay Life of Pi shows that any animal‚ and also humans‚ should fight to survive by doing anything unconventional‚ even wicked‚ to triumph over the impossible to live instead of just accepting death. Pi‚ a human; a hyena‚ and a blind man all fight to survive in a variety of ways that are examples of this thesis. Pi quits his vegetarian diet and also embraces a bengal tiger with him on the same boat‚ which are both unconventional choices. He satisfies his hunger by quit being a vegetarian and
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Life of Pi: The Importance of Storytelling What is the importance of storytelling? What are stories for? In the novel Life of Pi‚ Yann Martel considers these questions as he writes about a boy who survived in a lifeboat with a Bengal Tiger. Martel elaborates on the theme of storytelling as a coping mechanism. “That’s what fiction is about‚ isn’t it‚ the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?” Martel writes this within the first few pages of the Life of
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Chapter II Review of Related Literature Calabash tree Fruit (crescentiacujete) Crescentiacujete is an evergreen tree reaching six to ten meters in height‚ broad and irregular crown composed of long‚ spreading branches which creates a moderate shade beneath the tree. The tree is most outstanding in the landscape for its year round production of flowers and fruit‚ both of which are unusual. The five centimeter flowers which bloom at night are yellow or green with red or purple veins ‚ cup shaped
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