Pi Human Communication Quotes

I’m writing to Lisa Darger, Coordinator of Sustainability from the office of Sustainability. A coordinator is who organize events, activities and arrange people in order to make sure they work together effectively. Since Darger is Coordinator, she can make all the changes and add new facilities to the recycling and littering activities. I’m wanting to discuss her about providing more trashcans here and there and also proving more recycling activities on campus. I think she will be interested in my letter because it is responsibility if there is issues about litter or recycling is occurred, and I’m sure she will be happy to help me about my issues about littering on campus.

Pi is alone with Richard Parker on the lifeboat and they both starve and suffer with dehydration. Pi starts catching fishes for both of them. He always gives the biggest share to Richard Parker as he is the strongest. One day, he decides to eat the largest part. He wants to calm his desire for hunger. He does not want to share anything with Richard Parker. Pi starts eating like an animal. Pi tells, “It came as an unmistakable indication to me of how I had sunk the day I noticed, with a pinching of the heart, that I ate like an animal” (Martel 183). The innocent boy is now as dangerous as an animal that can do anything for the food. His yearning for food makes him selfish. It is in pi’s hand not to sacrifices his integrity, but he chooses to sacrifice because he knows that at this critical situation it is right to do. Even though Pi loses his integrity, he gains the power of being the strongest one on the

Religion helped Pi find inner peace and calmness, it also helped Pi recover from various experiences. At a young age, Pi was introduced to three of the world’s major religions. Pi gave equal importance to all three religions and practiced all of them with complete devotion. Pi’s gateway to religion was opened by his aunt, when he was taken to the nearby temple for the first time: the smell of flowers and chants of the priest, it was all meant to be. Pi was very religious and had so much faith in God that Pi refused to die.

¬¬When Piscine reaches a point where he must face death, he had to do what was necessary in order to live. Pi was a vegetarian; he has been one since the day he was born. He had to give that up when his life was on the line to be able to survive. Piscine on the Pacific Ocean, had to hunt and kill fishes to satisfy his hunger. “Lord, to think that I’m a strict vegetarian. (…) I descended to a level of savagery I never imagined possible” (Martel 112) Pi exclaimed. Even though Piscine was quite religious, he had to be smart when making vital

In the story, Life of Pi by Yann Martel the character Pi becomes a different person after he kills the flying fish. When Pi is on the raft, a number of flying fish landed on the boat with him and Richard Parker. Pi hesitated to kill the flying fish because it had landed on the raft by accident. Pi says, “Several times I started bringing the hatchet down, but I couldn’t complete the action,” (Martel 87). This shows that Pi really dislikes the prospect of killing. Pi hesitates because he is a good person and holds on to his morals. Later, when Pi needs to find another fish to feed Richard Parker, Pi fishes and reels in a large dorado. Once the dorado is on the raft, Pi kills the large fish without hesitation

Pi is a vegetarian, when they are in the ship, his mother argues with the French cook because the soup is not meatless. After the ship sink, the foods are consuming, Pi has to hunt the fish to keeps himself alive. He is afraid of killing because it is contrary to the doctrine. Several times he is hesitant to break fish’s neck, and he hides the fish’s head with the blanket. When he takes this fish’s life he is cry and feels guilty. He says, “ Lord, to think that I’m a strict vegetarian. To think that when I was a child I always shuddered when I snapped open a banana because it sounded to me like the breaking of an animal’s neck.I descended to a level of savagery I never imagined possible” (Martel 197). With time flying and experience increasing, Pi becomes a better hunter. His hunting action is more skillful, and he enjoys his meat. “ Turtles —which previously I had roughly opened up with the knife and tossed onto the floor of the boat for Richard Parker, like a bowl of hot soup—became my favorite dish” (Martel 212). He bravely fight the fear which come from the scarfing of him Hindu religion. he gets survival and keeps

He is most likely frighted by this idea because he lived with animals and woke up with them every single day throughout his childhood. However when he is put in a situation where he needs to fight for survival, he needs to change his eating habits. Pi tried for a very long time to stay away from consuming animals, but at one point he realized in order to stay alive, he needed to eat his first ever animal. When reminiscing about the event he said, “You may be astonished that in such a short period of time I could go from weeping over the muffled killing of a flying fish to gleefully bludgeoning to death a dorado. I could explain it by arguing that profiting from a pitiful flying fish's navigational mistake made me shy and sorrowful, while the excitement of actively capturing a great dorado made me sanguinary and self-assured. But in point of fact the explanation lies elsewhere. It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing” (185). This line is so powerful because he truly does feel bad for the animal. Even through all of the tough times that he is enduring on the boat, he still feels really bad about

In the Life of Pi, animals have the human-like emotions. They will be mad when others do something harmful to their friends. After the ship sank, there are some animals survived on “Pi’s Ark”: a zebra, a hyena, an ape and a tiger; however, the hyena is hurting the zebra. The ape: “But with her giant arms,

In the story “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel, Pi faces many struggles. One struggle Pi faces is the trouble of food. He takes his attempts at fishing, with little reward. After many unsuccessful attempts, Pi is rewarded, but by chance. A school of flying fish leap out of the water, some even landing in his boat. After Pi kills one of the flying fish, he becomes a different person. Pi describes that as he is killing the flying fish he had “Tears flowing down my cheeks” (Martel 88). He is mortified by having to kill the fish, even if it is to stay alive. He was shy and timid. A little while later though, Pi tries his hand at fishing one more time for the day. He manages to hook a great big Dorado, or Mahi Mahi. He yanks it in triumphantly and says

Pi survives emotionally, physically, and spiritually but there is still one more means of survival which is considered even more difficult to deal with than the rest- Mental survival. It is surprisingly easy to fail your mental health, especially in Pi’s current situation. Whether he is happy, healthy, and one with god or not, it would be easy to lose his grip on his own sanity; hence why it is considered so difficult. In both stories he experiences life-changing trauma like death, loss, and multiple life-threatening situations, but to hinder the setbacks of this trauma, he keeps himself busy, puts a hold on his feelings, and pushes himself to survive. For example, he refuses to let himself have too much pity for the zebra and he even forces

While reading chapters 29 – 57 of Life of Pi it was interesting to see the character development of Pi. Watching Pi grow up in Pondicherry you quickly realize he has a pacifistic nature and it became obvious his personality would not allow him to hurt anything or confront anyone. This is not the same Pi we see lost at sea. Pi’s survival instinct is quickly realized after he saves Richard Parker from drowning. By saving Richard Parker from a certain death he has certainly guaranteed his own death. Pi soon realizes he must establish himself as the dominate alpha male otherwise he will not survive.

Pi was born into the Hinduism, becoming involved in its rites and rituals as an infant (“Life of Pi”). One of the rituals of being a Hindu is believing that all animals are sacred. For Pi, being stranded out on the Pacific Ocean, this was a problem for him. Pi had no other source of food except for the few packages on the lifeboat, which were quickly running out. Pi hesitates to kill one of flying fish that land on his lifeboat, but the lifelong pacifist and vegetarian breaks the fish’s neck (“Life of Pi”). It was hard for Pi to hurt the fish and then he remembered a story from the Hindu religion of Markandeya and falling out of Vishnu's mouth into the universe. This inspired him to see how small and meaningless his suffering actually was. (Martel). So his faith in Hinduism was a double-sided sword in which he found more light than darkness

Heroes are the characters who are triumphant over complication while keeping their morals intact. Unfortunately “Life of Pi” is one of the few novels without a hero to claim victory in the end. The events that ensued on the boat were the darkest moments in Pi’s life. In those moments of uncertainty between life and death Pi chooses to live by any means necessary. Pi forgoes his religious beliefs to survive. Partaking in the religions, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam to officiate his love for God because as state in the 23rd chapter of the novel “I just want to love God” to worship God one has abide by his commandments. The act of murder is offense in all three of his ideology. A vast portion of Pi’s life was spent around animals so he has

In chapter 23 where the religious leaders are arguing over which religion Pi belongs to. As he is an especially innocent boy he sees no way following three religions could be so malevolent as he states, “I just want to love God,” (23.69). This first struggle that Pi faces right off starts when Pi is still in his childhood and reveals how hard he has to work to prove he is not a confused child, but instead that he knows of what he wants and that maybe believing in three religions can not be terribly heathen. The struggle of religion becomes a symbol through the entire novel as he grows closer to his spirituality and we come to see that his faith is not a threat but instead becomes much more pure than some people who live for one religion. Another struggle Pi goes through is his constant battle of keeping or breaking the morals his parents so often practiced with him. A constant struggle of this young protagonist was his pure mind and his caring nature of the animals since he was raised a vegetarian, for the reason that of this when the zebra is killed and he does nothing, therefore he feels “sorry,” and “ not a prayer goes by that I don’t think of him,” revealing how compassionate he truly is but having to become accustomed to the natural cycle of life,” (45.120). As Pi is on his adventure he finds himself becoming quite desperate and giving up his vegetarian diet, such as when he becomes “just plain desperate,” and starts catching all the fish he can, mainly since he has become a survivalist and to him it does not matter that he is breaking the morals that were instilled anymore because he did “whatever was necessary,” in order to survive (65.195). The psychological effect Pi endured by the end of the book as he finally succumbed to eating another person when he meets the stranger in the middle of the ocean, he felt

Pi's journey of endurance was motivated by survival and safety. Physical requirements for human survival is oxygen, water, food, shelter and sleep if these necessities are not followed the body cannot function properly and eventually fail. In the beginning of the novel, when Pi’s Maslow’s hierarchy of needs was content he would make time in his day to practice religion but on the boat he did not have the strength and motivation to do so. Pi was on a downhill slant to survival, he stopped consulting his religious beliefs when it came to the decision of killing. Pi was no a guiltless boy who studied religion and zoology he became a savage who tortured turtles and fish to quench his thirst. Pi progressively became more violent throughout the