collection of zoo animals. As soon their boat reached the open Pacific‚ it sank. Pi managed to get aboard a lifeboat where he was stranded for 227 days‚ with a wounded zebra‚ and orangutan‚ a hyena‚ and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. But the question is‚ did Pi Patel imagine the whole ordeal? Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (or PTSD) can cause people to have a loss of time‚ place‚ or person orientation‚ or even an increased or decreased awareness of surroundings1. Did he imagine
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to the folks of the town. The Sheriff thought that it was only Dr. Parker who would know what to do with him‚ so he brought him to the Parker Family. The Parkers accepted him as a member of their family and taught to him act like a human. Later on‚ when he finally learned how to act like a normal boy‚ he tried to fit in with the town people‚ but they blame him for everything that’s happening in their town‚
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To be stranded at sea is already a difficult enough feat to deal with. To do so with a tiger aboard your lifeboat is even harder. However despite the struggle‚ Pi manages to accomplish it. Piscine Molitor Patel is marooned at sea after the Tsimtsum sunk in the Pacific Ocean. Along with a 450 pound Royal Bengal tiger‚ Pi struggles to survive. In Life of Pi‚ Yann Martel demonstrates the idea of safety through the raft when it becomes Pi’s territory and protection. After Pi overcomes his self pity
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Although following the law is important‚ it is not the same thing as being ethical. Law is clear cut and to the point while ethics have more gray areas‚ and they are less about doing certain things because they are what is expected‚ and more about doing what is right and what feels in line with one’s moral code. Demanding ethical and socially responsible behavior from one’s self and from others can be intimidating‚ especially in the professional world. However‚ it is important that people work up
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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
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In her poem “One Perfect Rose‚” Dorothy Parker misleads the reader throughout the first and second stanzas into believing this poem is a romantic tribute to a tender moment from her past through her word choice and style of writing. However‚ the tone of the entire poem dramatically changes upon reading the third and final stanza when Parker allows the reader to understand her true intention of the poem‚ which is a cynical and perhaps bewildered view of the memory. And‚ with this shift in the tone
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the island‚ or even finding the food in the locker of the lifeboat. The most important‚ is the hope Pi is given through his companion on the lifeboat‚ Richard Parker‚ a four hundred and fifty pound Royal Bengal tiger. Being the color orange‚ the tiger becomes an example of hope throughout the book. Pi realizes‚ to keep himself‚ Richard Parker‚ and the will to survive alive‚ he must tame the tiger. “I had to tame him. It was at that moment that I realized this necessity. It was not a question of him
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labeling generally results in stereotyping” (Moore and Parker‚ 2007‚ p. 122). Stereotypes are not in any way based on the actual provable facts of these individual’s. In fact‚ our textbook defines stereotype in this manner‚ “is a thought or image about a group of people based on little or no evidence” (Moore and Parker‚ 2007‚ p. 122). This paper is to be in Rhetoric in style meaning that it “refers to the study of persuasive writing” (Moore and Parker‚ 2007‚ p. 118). In addition‚ this paper will include
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Richard Parker devotes all of the 227 days on the boat with Pi. The odds of survival with a man eating beast next to yourself are low‚ and then you add in the facts that they are stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for over 7 months. When Pi discovers that his only chance of survival relies on taming Richard Parker he has a great amount of determination. Before this realization Pi begins to give up in belief
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