Life Of Pi

The three main similarities between the book and the movie are that all the animals still represent the same people, in both the movie and the book Pi’s father fed the goat to the tiger, and they both explain Pi’s 3 religions. I believe that they kept all the animals to represent the same people because it adds more of a story to it. Pi’s father Santosh was teaching Pi a lesson to

In the book Life of Pi the author Yann Martel wrote about a young boy named Pi Patel surviving on a lifeboat by himself. Throughout the entire book Pi was very close to religion and in the end his religions were the main reason he had survived. At the start of the book Yann Martel introduces three religions, Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism. There are three main points that aided in Pi’s survival. One being that Pi was open to religions and started to follow the Islamic faith. The second reason is that Islam believed that one should pray five times a day, and Pi did exactly this. The last reason is that the religion

Once Pi has finished telling both of his stories, he asks which one the men prefer to believe, since neither of them make a difference (317). They both reply that the story with the animals makes for a much more interesting story (317) and then reference that story in their official report (319). Each person decides what they believe and that decides what becomes truth to them. To every individual what is true can be completely different based on their thoughts and

In Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi, he wants the reader to decipher whether his first story or his second story is real. The first story consists of the protagonist, Piscine Patel, being trapped on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, Richard Parker, and many other animals from his father’s zoo after they were lost together at sea. In the second story, Piscine re-tells a different story with a chef, his mother, and a sailor, this was to give the Japanese investigators “a story that wont surprise them (you)” (Martel 302). Martel clearly wishes the reader to understand why “Pi” might

Life of Pi was a well written novel with an interesting story line. The authors syntax and use of metaphors make the book a great read. Of all the books that we have read this year, Life of Pi sparked the most conversation outside of school on what the book meant, and which story was true. The novel provides two stories. The story that the majority of the book follows has Pi stranded with Richard Parker, a hyena, an orangutan, and a zebra. At the end of the book, Pi provides an alternate story after the men interviewing him state their disbelief of his original story. This second version equates each animal to a human that had been aboard the Tsimtsum. The hyena was the cook aboard the ship, the orangutan was the mother,

The will to live is a strong urge of survival that occurs when one’s life is threatened. The novel and film Life of Pi is about a boy named Piscine Molitor Patel who is lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean due to a shipwreck with a 450 pound Bengal Tiger. The theme that fits the novel and film the best is the will to live. The novel and film effectively prove the theme by using symbols to portray how badly Pi wants to live. Characterization also plays an important role in proving the theme as the novel and book show how Pi and his tiger have to change themselves to live. Cinematic techniques such as different types of camera angles are used as well to prove that the will to live is the essential theme in the film. In the novel, Yann Martel shows how the camera angles prove what they prove. The film and novel Life of Pi effectively capture the theme of the will to live by the effective use of symbolism, characterization, and cinematic techniques.

When writing, authors focus on what they wish for their audience to gain from the story, what they want the readers to learn from the actions and thoughts of the narrator. In The Life of Pi Yann Martel uses Pi and his experiences whether the audience believes Pi’s grand story of his survival or not, to impart upon them the relativity of truth. In the beginning this is shown threw Pi’s explorations with different religions already guiding the reader to consider what truth means with his thoughts on the different religions. It is later explored in Pi’s telling of what occurred to him while shipwrecked to the officials and their reactions to his tale. Especially once it becomes clear that the few differences between the stories were the lack of animals in one. Pi asks the officials which story they prefer; the officials can choose to believe whichever story they prefer, and that version becomes the truth to them.

Storytelling is a form of human expression; when something cannot be said outright, storytelling is often utilized. This is due to the fact that, it is interactive, it calls for an imagination and it tells the story the author really wants to tell. Pi uses storytelling to mask the realism of his condition, in other words, to sugar coat what is actually happens to him. Through storytelling he is able to pick and choose exactly what he wants to accept and change what troubles him so that he can remain both faithful and fearless. Throughout his entire order, Pi never accepted anything at its face value; he always added a twist to make himself feel better. “In both stories the ship sinks…which story do you prefer.” (Martel, 352). Pi asks the two detectives which story they believe since it makes no difference; they both liked the one with the animals. It goes to show humans choose to believe the beautiful, but absurd, story they all reject the nasty reality. Accepting the reality makes an event all the more real. It explains why Pi chooses to turn everything into a story; through it he chooses what he wants to accept and what he doesn’t. Storytelling allows you to take away and add to an experience the way you choose to. It gives its

He starts out with a zebra, hyena, an orangutan, and a tiger, but the animals slowly diminish leaving only Pi and Richard Parker. Pi works to tame and care for Richard Parker, and the two survive for two hundred twenty-seven days. Pi encounters a fellow French castaway who is eaten by Richard Parker (Martel 311-320). Pi also comes across a man-eating island (Martel 322-358). The events that take place are fairly far-fetched, and the probability of all of them occurring to the same person in the period of time given is even less believable. The second story, on the other hand, is a perhaps more believable retelling of the original story. Pi relates the second tale upon the request of his interviewers for “‘a story without animals’” (Martel 381). In this story the animals are replaced with human representatives including an injured Chinese sailor, a French cook, Pi’s mother, and Pi himself. The second story, like the first, begins with many passengers on the boat, but in the end it leaves only Pi to survive by himself after brutally murdering and eating the cook who killed both the sailor and Pi’s own mother (Martel 381-391). Unlike Pi’s first story, this account is dark, desperate, and harshly realistic, without any sense of hope to counter it all. After relating both of these stories to his interviewers, Pi asks them which story they think is better (Martel 398). Although the

Living on a boat with an adult bengal tiger or watching a man murder everyone but you on a lifeboat. These were the main to points of each stories Pi told. The story without animals is the more believable for these reasons, Pi could not survive with a bengal tiger on the lifeboat, The animals were never released from their cages with the Tsimtsum sank, and in the story with animals the animals share all same qualities with human. Although, the story with the animals is more unique and interesting it is highly unbelievable.

In the beginning of Life of Pi, the author opens up with a detailed description of the sloth, the different types, the speed, and the wittiness. It survives by being slow and because of its slowness; it allows algae to grow on its body that acts like a camouflage with the surrounding moss and foliage. The book starts out in first person with the main character, Piscine Patel, talking about his name which means "pool" in numerous languages. He found it weird that his parents named him Piscine but neither of them ever took to the water. It was Pi's uncle, Mamaji, who was the enthusiast of water. Mamaji had taught Pi how to swim. "I lay on the bench and fluttered my legs and scratched away at the sand with my hands, turning my head at every

Life of Pi is a very interesting book. There are two different versions of Pi’s story that are given near the end of the book. There is one story with Pi, a hyena, zebra, orangutan and a tiger named Richard Parker. The other story is without animals. This story has a sailor, a chef, Pi and his mother replacing the animals. The question is, which story is true?

The most humanized, yet most animalistic, was Richard Parker, the tiger, Pi’s boatmate for 227 days. Pi explained his ironic feelings towards Richard Parker, “...the one who scared me witless to start with was the one that brought me peace, purpose, I dare say wholeness,” (162). Richard Parker gave Pi the reason to wake up everyday on that boat, he cared for him like a father would care for a son. Without purpose in humans lives, lives aren’t worth living. So the thing that scares him the most makes him feel the most ‘whole’. This animalistic, ferocious yet graceful being is what gave Pi the purpose and drive to survive. Richard Parker is a part of all humans, just like he was a part of Pi. He was the part of Pi that needed to be taken out of him in this situation. He was the part that kept him human and alive. He was the coexisting personality that caused Pi to be the ruthless survivor he was. The theory of Richard Parker’s existence allowed Pi to cope with the fact that, there was no tiger, preying on a hyena. The death of the hyena or the cook was pure vengeance seeked out by Pi’s instinctual personality, that allowed for him to thrive and be the only survivor of the shipwreck. This side to him, scared him the most, yet relieved him in a way of his sins, allowing him to move on with his life, it allowed him to cope. Richard Parker wasn’t

The final product was a graphical representation based on the novel Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. The assignment, which was representing Pi’s life at sea, had a superior outcome than expected. I originally believed that the final image would be mediocre and that my group and I would be struggling to complete it in the last minute. However, the project was finished well in advance and the ultimate result was a pleasant surprise. The whole group worked together and used our strengths to create the graphic text. The work process sheet provided a great deal of assistance in our project. As we had to record all our work on the sheet, no member became abated during our time working on the assignment. Everyone wanted their worksheet filled, so

Yann Martel’s account on the evolution journey of Pi The Life of Pi is a beautifully constructed book by author Yann Martel. Yann Martel published this mesmerizing book in September, 2001. The Life of Pi digs down into the inner depths of the reader’s mind, and leaves the reader perplexed as the plot unravels. The Life of Pi isn’t filled with exemplary lucidity, but rather challenges the reader to think deeper than the surface.