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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

Life, as they say, is a journey, and that’s never so clear as when watching a life story unfold in the hands of a masterful film director. In Life of Pi, the voyage is both literal and symbolic, as the title character is forced to traverse the high seas under Grimms’ fairy tale-like circumstances that must be seen to be — well, if not believed, then at least experienced at a deep level. At the same time, the young, Indian lead character, a devoted spiritual seeker, undergoes an intense inner journey

Every problem we face we are given a choice, face it, or run away from it. Often times we choose to face it. With facing it comes integrity, responsibility, and more importantly will and determination. In the Life Of Pi by Yann Martel, Pi is in a shipwreck and stranded at sea for 227 days. Although he is faced with many challenges and the odds are greatly against him, his strong will and determination allow him to live. As Pi starts to realize the true situation that he is in, he comes to the conclusion

sounded to [him] as the breaking of an animal's neck.” (page 197). Throughout chapter 61 in Life of Pi, Pi demonstrates how humans act more as animals when put under the right circumstances. Pi is transformed from an innocent boy to a wild, ruthless man. For instance, Pi alters the way he views himself when he decides he would “break [the fish’s] neck. [Pi] egged himself on until [he] heard a cracking sound and no longer felt any life fighting in [his] hands” (page …) . Killing

everybody would answer this the same way. I believe that to survive, you need not to have an insane survival skill set taught to you by some secretive agency; You do however need to posses a few major things. In the story Life of Pi by Yann Martel, a young man has what it takes to get to safety, but would you? Determination. If you are wanting to survive, you have to be determined to. Survival is no easy feat and will not just be handed to you like anything else might have been. You have to be willing to

Hi! My name's Ratha. For my independent novel project, I chose the book 'Life of Pi', written by Yann Martel. Life of Pi is about an Indian teenager named Piscine Molitor Patel. He was named after a French swimming pool, and he changes his name to Pi after everyone started to call him "Pissing". His father is a zoo owner, and his family lives in Pondicherry, a French colony on India's eastern coast. Pi's dad decides to leave India and move his entire zoo to Canada, crossing the Pacific ocean on a

"You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it." In the fiction novel, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Survival is a major topic. Personally, I feel this is one of the biggest themes of the book. It is easily identifiable based on the various settings, characters and events. Survival is a key motivation when put against unorganized events occurring in the world. Pi and his family were aboard a ship to Canada. There were some technical issues and the ship sank rapidly leaving Richard

Pi is a teenager born in India and at the same time believing in Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism, and his father runs a zoo, so from childhood Pi understand the habits of animals... Frankly speaking, the beginning of this story is not attractive, Mixed with a religious belief in a teenager's growth experience. But then the story officially entered into the "fantasy draft". Pi family moved to Canada, with their zoo animals on the ship, Pi's father wanted to bring them to a foreign country to sell

In the story Life of Pi by Yann Martel, a teenage boy named Pi who is forced to kill a fish, leads him to become a different person. Pi and his family owned a zoo in India, but they tried to sail across the ocean with all of their animals to Canada. Due to a storm, their boat sinks. As a result of the ship sinking, Pi was left on a life boat with Richard Parker, one of their tigers from the zoo. All that was left to do is survive. Pi was not left with much, which leads him to learn new skills, that

direction of the forces enacting. Power and powerlessness have created polarity specially in post colonial period, bringing in frustration, alienation, identity crisis and at times even revolt. J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Disgrace’ depicts the struggle of a white man and his daughter in quest for their lost identity being the victims of the racial revolt and sexual assault. The impact of post apartheid context is the main concern reflecting the social status of South Africans. The legacy of the apartheid still