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Life of Pi
Pi is an interesting kid, because he finds much to be admired in many different religions, and decides to become members of three prominent ones. This disturbs his parents, and the leaders of each...
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Life of Pi
Pi’s earliest mentor is Francis Adirubasamy, whom he calls Mamaji. Mamaji is a former champion swimmer who tried to teach Pi’s mother and father to swim, without success. When Pi reaches the...
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Life of Pi
Life of Pi is a story about survival, and its protagonist, Pi, is an embodiment of the will to survive. It would be wrong to say that Pi never gives up in Life of Pi: “You might think I lost all...
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Life of Pi
In The Life of Pi, the title character had spent his whole life in and around zoos before his family left India. Pi’s father, who runs the zoo, has taught Pi to have tremendous respect for the...
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Life of Pi
The hyena represents the selfish survival instinct that many human beings no doubt feel when they are stranded and the odds of survival seem dubious. Many times, the Hyena is portrayed as the most...
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Life of Pi
Richard Parker may sound like an accountant, but in actual fact he's a fearsome, 450-pound tiger accompanying Pi in a lifeboat along with other animals who've survived the recent sinking of their...
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Life of Pi
Storytelling and religion are very deeply related, both in this novel and in general. In general, all religions have sacred stories at their hearts. We call these myths; they range from the...
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Life of Pi
Pi narrates both his early life and his ordeal on the lifeboat. As a sensitive boy, he seems at the mercy of all forces. His full name, Piscine, is a terrible burden (because it sounds like...
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Life of Pi
The waiter says this to Pi slightly in jest. Eating with fingers is common where Pi came from, and learning new customs can be difficult. It is clear to the waiter that Pi is new to the country and...
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Life of Pi
I think that some of the most profound parallels between Martel's work and the modern setting would rest in the search for meaning after tragedy. Pi's struggle for meaning and his transformation...
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Life of Pi
This is one of the more famous quotes that have emerged from this incredible prize-winning novel. The quote itself is actually slightly ironic, as it refers to the relationship between life and...
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Life of Pi
Pi's full name is Piscine Molitor Patel. He was named after a family friend, who loved to swim and whose favorite swimming pool was the Piscine Molitor in Paris. Instead of giving their son their...
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Life of Pi
Pondicherry is an appropriate locale for Pi's upbringing and childhood because it offered a lot of diversity. The book takes place right around 1970s India, and it is a rough place. Not with gangs...
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Life of Pi
The external conflicts in this story mostly center around the extreme survival situation that Pi finds himself in. He has to worry about battling constant danger and impending death while he is on...
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Life of Pi
Yann Martel's Life of Pi wonderfully blends seriousness and playfulness, as Pi must navigate the very serious reality of trying to survive on the raft while whimsical and fantastical events happen...
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Life of Pi
There are a lot of potential directions that you could go with this answer. One comparison might be one of length. Pi and Noah are both on their respective lifeboats for a very long time. Pi is on...
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Life of Pi
Pi tries to use a piece of his leather shoe for bait (along with fishing tackle provided to him in the lifeboat), a sign of his dwindling supplies and growing desperation. I believe this may be the...
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Life of Pi
I think one way to relate The Life of Pi to real life is to think about Pi's outlook on religion. Pi claims that he is Christian, Muslim, and Hindu . . . at the same time. Every time I see the...
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Life of Pi
Life of Pi and Hamlet have many similarities, even though on the surface they appear to be two completely different stories. For example, both stories center around one main character, a male, and...
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Life of Pi
In Yann Martel's novel The Life of Pi, swimming is important to the title character because of his uncle. He wasn't his biological uncle, but a good friend of the family's. Pi grew up calling him...
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Life of Pi
I believe that this question is asking about narration that happens in chapter 15 of the book. This chapter sees the author interjecting to describe Pi's house, and readers are told that the house...
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Life of Pi
Morality is a system by which people determine right and wrong behavior. A moral theory explains why a certain behavior is right or wrong, and moral theories are absolutely applicable to the book...
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Life of Pi
Pi is a very spiritual and religious teenager. He converts to Hinduism, Islam and Christianity! It is no surprise, then, that he would turn to God during the biggest trial of his life. Pi is also...
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Life of Pi
That's an interesting question that deviates from the normal connections that people make to these animals. Normally, people connect these animals to real people that Pi shares in an alternate...
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Life of Pi
This question is asking more than one thing, so this answer will address the first question in the post. Once Pi is in the lifeboat with Richard Parker, he is forced to draw on the knowledge that...
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Life of Pi
Some of the critics of religion mention how it can make people entrenched in their own ideas, particularly in regard to science. Historically, religious organizations like the Catholic Church have...
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Life of Pi
When the Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum sank, Pi Patel lost much, but he gained a little, too. Besides his family's possessions, including most of the zoo animals they were transporting to Canada, Pi...
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Life of Pi
Pondicherry, India is a city with a very diverse population. It has changed hands frequently between the French and the British, but it is now Indian. It is also a tourist destination and is home...
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Life of Pi
During their months together at sea, Pi formed a bond with the Bengal tiger. Pi never forgot that Richard Parker was a 450-pound carnivorous beast, and they never were on friendly terms. Yet in...
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Life of Pi
In the final chapter of Life of Pi, having come to the end of his fantastic, harrowing journey, Pi presents the possibility to the rapt interviewer that his entire story is an allegorical account...
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Life of Pi
Canadian author Yann Martel believes that there is a strong relationship between religion, faith, and storytelling. I’ve always been struck how . . . religion is profoundly narrative. All...
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Life of Pi
There is no single correct answer to this question. It is definitely the type of question that is asking for an individual reader's opinion. Additionally, the answer to this question is either...
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Life of Pi
Pi's full name is Piscine Molitor Patel. Pi's parents named him after a family friend of theirs who loved to swim. Well, that's not exactly true. The family friend loved to swim and his favorite...
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Life of Pi
Pi Patel's full name is Piscine Molitor Patel; he was named after a famous swimming pool and hotel complex in Paris. His unusual first name sounds a lot like "pissing," and so, unsurprisingly, he...
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Life of Pi
Imagination enabled Pi to take what was an awful tragedy, a horrific experience, and a living nightmare, and turn it into an endearing tale of survival, friendship, and endurance. The harsh...
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Life of Pi
It depends what you mean by hero. Over the course of the story, Pi does do some incredible things including saving his own life, escaping peril, and caring for the tiger that resides on the boat...
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Life of Pi
There are many different opinions of what fiction is, but this is not an unrealistic explanation of what it is. The selective transformation of reality means that there is a grain of truth in...
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Life of Pi
For the first third of the book being entirely about Pi's devotion to religion in different forms, the rest of the book is surpisingly sparse on any religious commentary or references. While Pi...
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Life of Pi
The novel has aspects of all three, but its most dominant themes fall in the tragedy and romance area. There are moments of comedy throughout the novel as Pi deals with his parents, his...
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Life of Pi
Richard Parker represents Pi's will to survive because it is only through the tiger that anything necessary to brutal survival comes to pass. Wild animals learn to survive each day by doing that...
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Life of Pi
The quote in question appears at the very end of chapter seven, and it is one of my favorite quotes from the entire text. I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but...
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Life of Pi
Foreshadowing is a technique used throughout Yann Martel's Life of Pi and in Chapter 46, foreshadowing is used to show the dangers the protagonist finds himself in and hint at what might happen to...
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Life of Pi
Margaret Atwood’s poem “True Stories” offers numerous ideas and images that resonate with Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi. Both works are concerned with the fundamental nature of truth, and...
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Life of Pi
Life of Pi is 2001 critically acclaimed and commercially successful fictional adventure novel written by Canadian writer Yann Martel. It follows an Indian boy named Piscine Molitor Patil (Pi) who...
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Life of Pi
This quote occurs just after Pi has almost a moment of epiphany where he realises that his suffering occurs in a "grand setting." He experiences a moment of almost seraphic calm as he is...
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Life of Pi
The novel begins as an adult Pi discusses his life after the sinking of Tsimtsum, the loss of his family, and his months at sea as a boy. In university, Pi had pursued religious studies and...
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Life of Pi
Life of Pi is filled with adversity that Pi Patel overcomes. One early example deals with Pi's name. His full name is Piscine Molitor Patel, and it's not exactly a name that his friends go easy on....
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Life of Pi
In "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel, the main need that he is asserting that human beings need is the need for imagination and storytelling. The entire story itself was an incredibly imaginative...
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Life of Pi
There are many times that Pi refers to Richard Parker saving him either mentally, emotionally, or physically. There are times on the lifeboat that Pi experiences stress and strain with each facet...
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Life of Pi
ESCAPE is the six-letter word that is the theme of chapters 10 and 11. You can see that the word "escape" is the theme in the very first sentence of chapter 10: "Yet there will always be animals...
