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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Pi ends up being the sole survivor on the lifeboat‚ and it is his faith in himself that makes survival possible. He endures a lot in those 227 days at sea and faces many hardships that he has to overcome. He has lost his family‚ he is dealing with a crazed murder‚ and eventually he faces solitude on his journey. He has only himself to count on to get through this exhaustive ordeal. At one of his lowest points‚ when the reality of his situation really sets in‚ Pi is worried about dying. However
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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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How Important is the Notion of Believability in this Novel? Yann Martel’s novel is based around very fictitious ideas and events which convey the notion that believability is very important and plays a major role in making Life of Pi engaging. Through Martel’s language and structure‚ he indirectly forces the audience into believability. By using factual references‚ Martel successfully captures and portrays realism in the events‚ thus making fictitious ideas and the text believable. This essay
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with a life and death situation‚ people will often do amazing‚ heroic‚ and shameful things to survive. Yann Martel’s brilliant novel The Life of Pi has many themes. The story revolves around an Indian boy‚ who upon being faced with a shipwreck catastrophe is forced to remain in the ocean for 227 days with a live tiger on board. As a deeply religious person‚ he is in a constant battle between morality and his will to exist; and how far he must go in order to do so. The main theme in Life of Pi is the
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Life of Pi‚ by Yann Martel‚ starts off with an elderly man in Pondicherry‚ India‚ telling one of the authors‚ “I have a story that will make you believe in God” (x). The author stops and thinks‚ Was this some Jehovah Witness knocking on my door? (x). This author‚ Yann Martel‚ is from Canada‚ where our other author‚ Piscine Molitor Patel‚ is from Pondicherry‚ India. Piscine is a middle eastern boy who’s family owns a zoo‚ with magnificent animals. Piscine does not like his name‚ because of all the
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I completely disagree with everything that the book Life of Pi states because its assertions are too unrealistic. One of the main points that the Life of Pi states that there is such thing as a God is because he is there to comfort us. While I completely agree that many people do feel really safe if they believe in God‚ I can not believe that Pi would feel as safe as he did just because of an intangible object like God. When Pi decided to change religions‚ he sighted the Hindu God as someone that
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The Aura of Orange Human‚ animal‚ plants‚ and all the Earth’s content is survivor. They are fighting for their rights in order to live in this beautiful world. The novel Life of Pi written by Yann Martel‚ has employed a lot of symbols that is related to the life. One of the most significant symbols is the color orange. The author uses orange as a symbol of maintenance of the spirit to survive in survival. This can be proved as most of the objects that are in the color orange in the novel generate
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through Life of Pi‚ which illustrates that truth can be fashioned through one’s situation‚ one’s perspective and one’s desire for truth. Out of the blocks first is situation. Different situations provoke different truths. Pi Patel leads a different childhood than most because of where he calls home. Pi lives in a zoo‚ always in contact with animals and forever in close proximity. This allows him to create strong bonds with animals‚ but he always needs to learn the cold hard truth of life at a zoo
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that called Life of Pi written by Yann Martel is Pi who challenges with many issues in his journey from India to Canada. One of the issues is living alone on the lifeboat in the middle of ocean with a Bengal tiger for while. One can learn to deal with fear as Pi deals with the tiger that called Richard Parker. Pi faces his fears‚ takes practical steps‚ persevere‚ and acknowledge his fears. The most dangerous fear that Pi deals with is Richard Parker who has no mercy on his victims. Pi knows that
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