Juice represented the innocence that Pi had when he came onto the boat. This innocence would have ended in his death. When Pi was first placed on the boat‚ he made the choice to save Richard Parker. Soon he realized that he had allowed one of the most dangerous animals in the world to cohabit with him. He tries to get rid of him many times after that but never does. In a way‚ Pi needed to shed himself of his innocence‚ to survive his long arduous battle. Pi needed to embrace
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Life of Pi takes a Leap of Faith A leap of faith is the act of believing in or accepting something intangible or unprovable‚ or without evidence. Soren Kierkegaard once said‚ “A leap of faith is imperative for one’s spiritual well-being”. It is inspirational how Yann Martel’s portrayal of the significant motif‚ ‘Leap of Faith’ escorts Pi to a state of peace and contentment and as a result leading to a character shape of growth and maturity. The Life of Pi demonstrates this undertaking in numerous
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Morals Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi and Shakespeare’s tragic play Macbeth reveal certain similarities‚ when juxtaposed. These two texts display the gradual loss of morals between the characters of Macbeth and Pi. This is conveyed through specific events within the two books‚ such as Macbeth and Pi’s lust to kill‚ their guilt and themselves going crazy‚ will articulate the loss of their morals. The following analysis will discuss these themes extensively. Macbeth and Pi Patel portray their gradual
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Teenage life for Holden seems to be difficult because he truly believes that he has no connection with anyone. Due to that he alienates himself by not participating in school and that leads him into another hole due to the fact he’s already been kicked out of other schools decides to try and take life by the hands and do whatever he wants. Teenage life hasn’t really changed over the years. There are still a lot of things that are always going to be the same and Teenager hood is like that. People
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Poverty in Real life vs. Gilead The issue of poverty would be handled differently in Gilead than in real life‚ as it would include hiding the truth from the citizens of society‚ sending the poor to the colonies and ignoring the issue altogether. A major difference between Gilead and in real life‚ would be that in Gilead the government would attempt to resolve this issue by concealing the hard facts about poverty within their society. Unlike in real life‚ most people find out about issues as they
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Mothers The novel is a story about the powerful‚ magnetic pull of children to their mothers. From the very first chapter‚ Lily is looking for her mother — or at least to know her mother. Throughout the story‚ she discovers surrogate mothers‚ and finally reconnects with her own mother’s story. Her first yearning‚ however‚ is for her real mother‚ Deborah. When Lily finds her mother’s things‚ she makes up all kinds of stories about what her mother would have been like. Lily harbors romantic ideas
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The Life of PI and The Prophet were both books that caught my attention because of two reasons. The first reason was because of the fact that both main characters were somehow traveling while learning what it is they are doing. The second reason is due to the fact that it has to do something with religion or spiritual learning and learning about what life is and what we are supposed to do with it. Why I choose these two reasons is due to the fact that me personally in the future i would like to travel
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Antonia would identify with Jim’s version of happiness. Antonia had been deprived of basic human needs throughout her childhood. The beginning of this story shows the extreme poverty Antonia’s family had to suffer. Antonia was an astute and crafty young girl whose happiness was produced not by wealth but by simple things like friendship and the love a father has for his daughter. Antonia could have always complained but she understood that her parents did the best that they could. Antonia did not
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standard arguments for declaring life to be absurd. The first argument he points out is the idea that nothing humans doing in the present will matter in the distant future‚ or as Nagel says‚ “in a million years” (Nagel 716). People believe that what they do now won’t matter at all in a million years‚ and that they are just one person living in the now that will soon be gone and will therefore not matter and don’t matter. Humans see this not mattering as a reason why life is absurd‚ since if nothing matters
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chapter of Part Two comes to an end‚ Pi breaks into tears‚ crying the following words: "Richard Parker‚ a companion of my torment‚ awful‚ fierce thing that kept me alive‚ moved forward and disappeared forever from my life." In the world today where civilization exists‚ the idea of an innocent sixteen-year-old boy surviving his ordeal with a feral Bengal tiger lies beyond our concept of reality. However‚ it cannot be denied that the relation between Bengal tiger and Pi is depicted with great amount of
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