Entry #1 Page Range: 1-8 Entry: We were on a mission today here’s how it went “enemy contact‚ hostiles on my position.” I knew there were hundreds of them out there. All of our motion sensors were like radiation scanners in a nuclear fallout. Blue one was running faster and swifter than all of us even with the Mjolnir armor on‚ it weighed over 300 pounds. We jumped up onto the ridge shooting armor piercing rounds into the grunts and elites tearing through their armor and Into their skin. The screeches
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Author Yann Martel Original title Life of Pi Country Canada Language English Genre Fiction Publisher Knopf Canada Publication date September 2001 Life of Pi is divided into four sections. In the first section the main character Pi Patel‚ an adult Canadian‚ reminisces about his childhood in India. His father owns a zoo in Pondicherry. The livelihood provides the family with a relatively affluent lifestyle and some understanding of animal psychology. Pi describes how he acquired his full
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Life of Pi Final Essay Life of Pi is the kind of story that really makes you think. There were so many different aspects of the book that I didn’t understand when we started reading that make sense now. One of those features is Pi’s story. During the time when we read that section of the book I didn’t even think about the truth behind it‚ I just read. Now that we have finished the book and we got to hear both of Pi’s stories‚ I’m not sure which I believe‚ but if I had to choose I would say
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winning novel‚ “Life of Pi”‚ is about the life of Piscine Molitor Patel‚ narrating many of the experiences he encounters that give light to many philosophies and ideologies about life. The protagonist in the story‚ Piscine Molitor‚ was named after a Parisian swimming pool‚ which was described in the story as a breathtaking area to take a good swim. However‚ Piscine having been fed up with the negative attention his name attracted in school‚ comes up with a new nickname for himself: Pi. Like many other
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Life of Pi The book starts with the author telling in a note about going to India. In India he meets a man named Francis Adirubasamy in a coffeehouse in Pondicherry. The response Francis comes up with to the author’s need for inspiration is “I have a story that will make you believe in God.” After which he refers to the author as Piscine Patel in Toronto‚ who starts to tell his story. When Pi was a teenager in India‚ he lived with his parents and his brother Ravi. He frequently explores new opportunities
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Jessica Jenny English Honors Period 3 Life 0f Pi Essay 9/21/14 “The Use of Geography in Life of Pi” Life of Pi by Yann Martel‚ follows the life of a young boy named Pi‚ who is marooned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean after a shipwreck. He is only accompanied by a zebra‚ an orangutan‚ a hyena‚ and a brutal‚ barbarous Bengal tiger. Young Pi must confront the elements and live at the will of Mother Nature throughout the book as he tries to stay alive in the vast abyss of the Pacific Ocean. How
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Entry 1: I have received this book from by brother‚ Ruben. He gave it to me when I was trapped in the cistern when my brothers were away working. Ruben told me to write in it so people will know what happened to me. He told be he swiped it from my father’s blank books he was planning on writing in. I guess I should start from the beginning…. It all started with my father‚ Jacob‚ who gave me a fancy coat. My brothers interpreted this as he loved me more than them and they distanced themselves from
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“Life of Pi” is about this boy called Pi‚ who is the son of a zookeeper in India. He grew up in a zoo and was extremely happy at home learning all about the animals that lived around him. This boy‚ who is a Hindu‚ found himself attracted to Islam and Christianity as well‚ so he practiced 3 religions at the same time. When Pi’s father decided to leave India‚ Pi’s family‚ along with some animals from the zoo‚ boarded a cargo ship bound for Canada. Unfortunately‚ the ship sank. Pi was the only human
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The Life of Pi The novel‚ The Life of Pi‚ by Yann Martel is a story that reflects how people develop their belief systems‚ and how they are challenged by their need to survive. This story‚ about a young boy living with a Bengal tiger for 227 days following a shipwreck was interesting to read because it made me think about my own belief systems‚ and times that I have thought of abandoning them‚ and why I chose not to. It also made me wonder to what extremes I would have to be pushed to abandon
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uses different tones in Life of Pi to portray his opinions of Pi Patel. He uses Pi to show humor‚ curiosity‚ savage‚ despair‚ philosophy‚ and definitely horror throughout the novel. Pi is forced to live with a tiger in such a confined space that he must find a way to train Richard Parker. Pi comforts himself by pretending he is a tiger trainer in “THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH!” (Martel 208). This is Martel’s way of showing how Pi Patel is humorous even in troubling situations. Pi is also confronted with
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