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Comperative Essay Outline

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Life of Pi and Cast Away
Comparative Essay Outline

Paragraph 1 (Introduction)
General sentence to introduce the essay: When people are faced with isolation, they must have the will to survive spiritually, physically, and emotionally. Piscine Malitor Patel and Chuck Nolan, the protagonists, demonstrate these attributes very well.
Points to be covered in the essay (what are the 3 similarities?)
1. Pi survives physically with the help of Richard Parker while Chuck Nolan survives with a volleyball named Wilson
2. Pi is able to survive emotionally by telling an imaginative story while Chuck Nolan survives by keeping the picture of his wife in a locket
3. Pi survives spiritually by praying every morning while Chuck Nolan decides to keep …show more content…

When Pi witnessed his family die as well as the Frenchman losing all sense of humanity, he cannot bare to narrate the events. That is why he devises an imaginative story about animals killing each other, because it is natural in them and less heart-breaking.
Point 2: (explain how the first common topic is seen in Y then give a specific example to show this)
Every night before Chuck Nolan goes to sleep, he makes sure that the locket his wife gave him is with him. This gives Chuck Nolan the ability to stay strong because it makes him want to fight harder to survive in order to see his wife again.
Summary/Transition (one sentence that sums up everything you have written about in this paragraph with a lead-in to the next paragraph)
Throughout the novel and the movie, the main characters display how they survive emotionally in many specific ways. At the same time, they also illustrate how they were able to survive spiritually.
Paragraph 4 (Point of Contrast 3)
Topic sentence (Introduce your paragraph with your first contrast point from your thesis – what is the first similarity in both works?)
Finally, in the novel Life of Pi, and movie Cast Away, the main characters demonstrate how they survive spiritually
Point 1: (explain how the first common topic is seen in X then give a specific example to show this)
Every day, Pi expresses his faith to Islam as well as

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