Life of Pi Literary Analysis

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Yann Martel composed a novel that tells a story of a teenage Indian boy who is shipwrecked in the Pacific ocean and manages to withstand the recklessness of mother nature for 227 days in the company of a 450 pound Bengal tiger. This book is an understanding of faith and spirituality at many levels. Young Pi loves God, and to corroborate his love he adds Christianity and Muslimism to his native practice of Hinduism. He also has a passion for animals, and much of the book analyzes animal psychology and its Conjunction to human psychology in a vibrant, intriguing way. This book had me questioning my beliefs, and role in my society in every chapter and when I got to the very end of the book I was forced to ask myself many questions. If ever there was a novel that had such a theological approach along with a magical, fascinating touch to it this would be the definition of it. "The Life of Pi" will, at the very least, would deliver a very mesmerizing and captivating way to spend time. Intelligent storytelling, Indeed it is but it can also help you think twice on how you examine the world and isn't that the point of awesome piece of literature. The novel begins by inaugurating its protagonist and narrator, Pi (shortened from piscine) Patel. The first ninety pages or so of the book explain Pi’s childhood in India, and are full of rapture. Pi’s father is the director of a zoo, so pi has with a vast intelligence of animals. He mentions that animals do not really want large open spaces, but need to know the boundaries of their habitat not caring about the size and to know who the leader of group is. Pi is teased at school because Pissing sounding similar to his name Piscine who is now grown up and living in Canada, relives his Indian childhood. A Hindu, he once came across a hill town church and was stunned. A kind priest took the child to Christ; Pi tells us he could
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