YUN ZOO OH Eng101-Wyman Research Essay 7 June‚ 2013 Delicate gaze of strangers: Director Ang LEE Last year‚ 2012‚ the movie “Life of Pi” was released all over the world. Upon release‚ Life of Pi became a critical and commercial success‚ earning over $600 million worldwide (“IMDb”). At this year‚ 2013‚ Academy Awards it had eleven nominations‚ including Best Picture‚ and won four (the most for the evening) including Best Director for Ang Lee. It was also nominated for
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Life of Pi by Yann Martel is an incredible novel about the will to survive‚ the importance of storytelling and religious belief. The novel travels back in time to chronicle the journey of a teenaged‚ Indian boy named Piscine (Pi) Patel‚ as he embarks on an involuntary venture across the Pacific ocean. Struggling to survive‚ Pi must use his own knowledge to remain alive and sane‚ while sharing a small life raft with a fearsome 450 lbs Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Joseph Pulitzer once said‚ “Put
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The diction and syntax used by Yann Martel in The Life of Pi leads the reader to draw a conclusion of a white collar worker who seems miserable and restricted within the confines of his life. Martel sketches a depressed and restricted office worker through his use of formal diction. Martel chooses to use words such as “nothing” (Martel)‚ “inverted” (Martel)‚ “nonetheless” (Martel)‚ and “working life” (Martel) rather than its more forthright and simple counterparts. By turning to more formal word
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offset from the rest of the book due to Pi’s delusional state of mind and his maintained sensitivity to the occurrence. This causes the conclusion and religious sentiment of Pi’s journey to be accentuated as a direct result of intentional word choice. Pi arrives on the beach slightly crazed from his time at sea‚ as can be observed from the way his perceptions are distorted‚ with a fear that‚ “in two feet of water‚ I would drown‚” (Martel 284). He continues on with his confusion as he comments on his
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I’ve been out there for over half a year. Two men who claimed to be some Japanese Transport Officials visited me and asked me questions about what happened when the Tsimtsum sank. Firstly‚ I told them that the ship sank and that I had jumped in the life boat‚ along with 4 other animals (Richard Parker the Bengal tiger‚ Orange Juice the Orangutan‚ a hyena and a zebra with a broken leg). Then I said that Richard Parker killed the hyena right after the hyena killed Orange Juice and the zebra. But then
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Life of Pi: Journal Response #1 The narrator of this book has his own view about zoos. He tries to make it seem as if his view is absolutely true and is scientifically proven and that he is 100% politically correct. According to him a zoo to an animal is like a home to a human. But I totally disagree with his view on the zoos. In the book the narrator’s view is totally opposite. He assumes and thinks that keeping animals in cages is normal to them and they don’t mind… He persuades us to think
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stories are told of great leaders‚ origins and tragic events‚ because of their immense lessons‚ despite being alterted inumerable times since it was first shared. In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel‚ the “story-truth” or the animal story‚ is more significant
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should lie to your parents about the dent on their car or lie to your friends about getting lucky with that girl last weekend‚ but every so often a situation comes along in which a small fabrication will better warrant the situation. In the novel Life of Pi‚ the author Yann Martel tells a fantastic story about a young boy at sea‚ trapped on a lifeboat with a 450lb Bengal tiger. During their journey‚ the unlikely castaways face an epic adventure of survival; crossing paths with such characters as a
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yourself. Life of Pi by Yann Martel‚in this story the family goes on a trip‚ a boy and parents with zoo animals. The ship gets struck by storms and the boy decides to escape on a lifeboat by himself with the company of the animals.
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Response The novel‚ “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel is about a boy who lives in Pondicherry‚ India with his family. It is about how he and his family decide to move to Canada with the animals they own and the tragedy on sea. The book explains how Pi survives life and it is narrated by the first character‚ Pi‚ who is older now and is looking back on his life and younger years. Pi and his family embarked on the voyage to Canada along with the animals when Pi was around 16 years old. In the midst
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