survivor endured the greatest hardships just to remain alive two great survivors which had to fight for their lives are Pi Patel a young indian boy and Chuck Noland a middle aged Fed Ex intern. Their entire life flashed in front of their very own eyes as they had to fight the environment‚ the giant deathly ocean‚ and their very own fears. Pi as a young boy was always interested in Religion and loving God. Even with his father telling him animals are not his friends
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“Bapu Gandhi said‚ ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God” (Martel 76; ch.23) says Pi in response to being rebuked for his practice of multiple religions. The notion that religion should not be discussed in polite company is demonstrated clearly by the scene Martel depicts in Chapter 23 of “life of Pi”‚ in which the pundits of Hinduism‚ Islam and Christianity come almost to blows over Pi’s enthusiastic practice of the three. It is this youthful fascination which equips him for the turbulent
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The common question human kind has asked throughout history‚ is “What shapes us into who we are?”. In the book‚ A Storytelling Animal‚ Jonathan Gottschall gives us some concrete examples in which fiction has shaped not only human behavior‚ but has shaped human history. Gottschall refers to the characters of these fictional stories as the “Ink People”‚ and poses a debate on the grip these fabricated caricatures of reality. Gottschall asks the question of ‚”How do (Ink People) shape our behavior‚ customs
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Storytelling Project Speech My dad decided to travel to Canada in 1998‚ when he was 29 years old. He had just completed his PhD in China‚ and decided to travel to Canada in order to conduct some research as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta. He had known for a while that he wanted to leave China- not permanently-but just for a little while to gain some experience in a new place. My dad never meant to stay in Canada. His intention was to work in Canada for a few years to obtain some
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Faith and Reason with a Slice of Life of Pi Life overflows with many kinds of distracting ideas‚ objects‚ and forms for the mind to wonder about. Humans made it their goal in life to determine which of these things have value and supply a meaning to this life. In Life of Pi‚ Yann Martel uses Pi stranded on a lifeboat‚ as a metaphor for life to show that reason alone cannot give meaning to life‚ and that survival is more than just living but living a better story. Martel uses many different characters
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In the novel‚ “Life of Pi” the author Yann Martel tells a story within a story about Piscine Molitor who is also known as Pi. He is the protagonist and the dynamic character of story. In the chapters that confine the main story Pi is a timid middle-aged man and is deeply spiritual after learning the teachings of Hinduism‚ Catholicism‚ and Islam. He tells us about his childhood growing up in India as a son of a zoo keeper. He’s a vegetarian and he expresses his love for animals. Pi is a student of
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human experience tells you otherwise. Discovering a connection with another person can be an exciting reprieve from a mundane life‚ but when the novelty of the situation wears off‚ you often question whether the choices you made were the right ones. In her short story “The Littoral Zone‚” Andrea Barrett illustrates just such circumstances through the art of mimetic storytelling‚ making this work of fiction highly realistic in terms of character and plot. Much like the tides of the title‚ Jonathon and
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For thousands of years‚ stories have been told. Either by word of mouth‚ or through books and movies. The Things They Carried has a recurring theme of storytelling. It appears in the book in more places than one. And each one of the appearances seems to say something different about how stories are told‚ or how they should be told. In the chapter ¨How To Tell A True War Story¨ for example‚ the narrator is talking about how a war story should be told and what it should consist of. He says on page
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survival needs take over what is right in their religious beliefs? That is exactly what Pi is going to find out on a lifeboat with four animals. His family was on a boat headed to Canada when is sank do to a engine failure. Pi is the only human alive along with a Hyena‚ Zebra‚ Orangutan and a Tiger. There is a huge fight for survival in a little lifeboat. Pi’s actions are justified in the case of survival. Pi was pushed to the edge and would do anything to survive. Even though some of his beliefs
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ordinary life in Pondicherry‚ India. His father owns a zoo and he loves to help out and examine all the animals. Pi is very religious‚ therefore; he prays on his prayer rug almost every day. Pi was called to adventure when his family told him one day that they were moving to Canada. “We’ll sail like Columbus” (111). Pi’s father said this in relation because the Patel’s‚ themselves‚ were about to sail across the ocean. They will be traveling on the Tsimtsum across the Pacific Ocean. Pi was not
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