Close reading responds Life Of Pi The book Life of Pi by Yann Martel is about the story of Pi Patel a 16-year-old boy who survives at sea with a tiger for 227 days. Pi begins his journey when the boat he is one sinks and he gets on a lifeboat. The lifeboat contains a hyena zebra‚ an orangutan‚ and Richard Parker the tiger. Throughout the book Pi struggles to stay alive and keep fighting. The theme of loneliness and trying to stay alive plays a big part in this story. Especially in the quote
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never -under any circumstances -to touch a tiger‚ to pet a tiger‚ to put your hands through the bars of a cage‚ even to get close to a cage’” (Martel 42). After telling him this his father shows Pi how a tiger eats. Quickly Pi learns and is horrified and scared by the it’s carnivorous demeanor. From that day on Pi looks at animals differently and keeps his space between them and him. Until the night the Tsimtsum sank. When
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Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist‚ Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel‚ a Tamil boy from Pondicherry‚ explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tigernamed Richard Parker. The novel‚ which has sold more than ten million copies worldwide‚[1] was rejected by at least five London publishing houses[2] before being accepted by Knopf
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Tzu January 28‚ 2013 Reaction Paper Life of Pi Having just experienced the sinking of his family’s ship‚ and being put onto a life boat with only a hyena‚ Pi felt completely lost and alone. Then he met a familiar face from his family’s zoo‚ Pi saw the Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker onboard. His first reaction was to save the life of Richard Parker so that he may have a companion‚ and a protector aboard the lifeboat. Suddenly Pi realizes just what he is doing. He is saving the life of
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Human’s wisdom from environment The relationship between the Bangal tiger Richard parker and Pi Patel is the main focus in the novel ‘Life of Pi’.Their relationship are continually changing and it is the struggle for survival makes them need to change.A long time ago‚human are weaker than animal as they don’t have strong body as animal .They do not have the sharp claws as Richard Parker does to protect themselves.However‚as time going on ‚human starts to dominate the
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His first book‚ a collection of short stories called The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios‚ was published in 1993. His first novel‚ Self‚ followed in 1996. Like “the author” who narrates Life of Pi‚ Martel did not achieve much commercial or critical success with either of his earlier books. Life of Pi‚ on the other hand‚ became a bestseller upon publication in 2001. It has been translated into more than forty languages and has won several prestigious awards‚ including the Hugh MacLennan Prize for
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Religion is a believe that relates humanity to spirituality. One of the major themes in the novel ‘Life of Pi’ is religion and the significance and importance of it is portrayed throughout the novel. In the novel ‘Life of Pi’ by Yann Martel‚ Martel shows the importance of religion in Pi’s life‚ as religion helped Pi understand the nature of animals‚ also helped him in his daily life and helped keep Pi from giving up on life. Yann Martel portrays the events as real and tries to convince us what we are going
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my thesis will be in the novel Life of Pi‚ Yann Martel uses the protagonist Pi to demonstrate how faith‚ ritual and one’s will to live save one from the barbaric and carnivorous reality. The key arguments that I will use to prove this thesis is firstly how Pi uses faith to help him survive in on the boat‚ for example Pi unconsciously makes a ritual for himself daily to follow in order keep himself busy and so that he forgets the notion of time‚ with this Pi is able to survive because he makes an
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feeling of being alone or strand. In both the excerpt of Life of Pi and “The Story of Keesh”‚ both characters had either faced one or another problem‚ and had to live difficult lives in different ways. But they both had difficult challenges to face. They weren’t just successful in facing their problems but they toughened up and faced the challenge ahead of them like a true hero. In both “The Story of Keesh” and the book excerpt Life of Pi both characters demonstrate their bravery and intelligence when
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different functional groups. The reaction is called a 4+2 cycloaddition because a ring is formed by four pi electrons in the diene interacting with two pi electrons of the alkene or alkyne (Wade‚ Jr.‚ 2013). In this experiment anthracene was used as the diene and considered to be electron rich in the reaction. Maleic anhydride was the electron poor dienophile used in the reaction. The reaction converted two pi bonds into two sigma bonds forming 1‚9 dihydroanthracene-9‚ 10-‚ succinic anhydride (Wade‚ Jr
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