In Life of Pi sixteen year old Piscine Patel gets stranded at sea on a life boat after the cargo ship that he and his family was traveling on sank. Along with Pi on the boat is a wounded zebra, a hyena, a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, and a female orangutan name Orange Juice who floated in on a net of bananas. Stricken with fear by the hyena and tiger Pi quickly learned that he would need to conquer the animals if he was going to have any chance of survival. Being the son of an important zookeeper in India Pi had learned at a young age all about exotic animals, their habits and what they need to survive. This strong incite made him well prepared to take on the animals, but before he was able to start the hyena ate the wounded zebra alive and killed Orange Juice.
The hurricane hits the Outer Banks, and a ship sunk and was drowning. There were people in the ship, and the surf men rescued a baby boy, his mother, and two other sailors. Nathan’s realize that he could never be able to do what the surf men were doing, but he helped the baby and the injured sailor because he learned what to do in the medical books. Name of protagonist: Nathan, Mr. Etheridge, Mr. Meekins, Mr.Pugh, Mrs.Gardiner Conflict: The conflict of the story is that the surf men went rescued sailors whose ship sunk and were drowning in a storm, but it was hard to save them. Resolution: The resolution is that surf men could save everybody from the ship and Nathan helped the rescuers thanks to what he learned from the medical books.
A passing by ship sees the smoke and the boys are finally rescued. Now, in the movie Madagascar, Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are put on a boat to be shipped to Africa. When Marty and Alex start to argue, they all fall off of the boat and wash up onto an island. They search the island and come across a lot of lemurs. The lemurs feed them only once, which is not satisfying to Alex at all!
In the Heart of the Sea 1. Nantucket was a Quaker community, these groups of people reconcile their beliefs in non-violence with their occupation in the incredibly violent world of whaling by they had hoped to support themselves not a fishermen but a farmers and shepherds on this grassy, pond-speckled crescent without wolves. Pacifist killers, plain-dressed millionaires, the whalemen of Nantucket were simply fulfilling the Lore’s will. 2. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival.
If you stay with a tiger in a boat, will you be afraid? If you stay with a tiger in a boat for 227 days, do you think that you can survive? In Life of Pi, Yann Martel (2001) gives us a unique experience of a twelve year-old boy who demonstrates how to live with a tiger in a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean for 227 days. In the novel, a twelve year-old boy who is called Pi, is a one of the survivors from a ship wreck in the Pacific Ocean. He loves animals and religions.
The Pearl- Kino’s Hero’s Journey Separation from the Comfortable: A Mexican-Indian pearl diver named Kino lives with his wife and infant son, Juana and Coyotito in a brush house, near a village called La Paz. Kino is uncomfortable with his state of being because he is poor and lives a hard life. The Call: The call is when Kino and his wife take their son, Coyotito are sent home after being told to leave by the doctor for checking on Coyotito’s wound from a scorpion. The Threshold of Adventure: Kino is on shores in his canoe searching for pearls, and when he dives in the water, he sees an enormous oyster. He brings it to his canoe and breaks the shell, realizing that it’s a giant gleaming pearl.
PETA’s campaign SeaWorld of Hurt shares, “In captivity, orcas are unable to hunt and obtain water from their prey, so SeaWorld gives them gelatin, a substance that is not natural for them, in an attempt to keep them hydrated. Tilikum, who weighs 12,000 pounds alone consumes 83 pounds of gelatin every day.” (SeaWorld of Hurt) The SeaWorld Parks are blatantly taking advantage of the helplessness of these mammals, using them as props for education and
The Real Story in Life of Pi The difference between fiction and reality is not always evident to those who are unable or unwilling to recognize the difference. 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 tells us that he was actually on a lifeboat with a chef, his mother, and a sailor, where the characters were changed to animals to help him cope with his loss. Martel clearly wishes the reader to understand why “Pi” might have been more truthful in the one story rather than the other.
In the first part, Pi talks about his family and how they own a zoo and then later he learns how dangerous every animal in the zoo could be. Pi also believed in 3 religions (Hinduism, Christianity and Muslim) and in June 21, 1977 he and his family and the zoo animal set sail. In the second part, the ship that Pi set sail on sank and only Pi, a tiger, a zebra, a hyena, and an orangutan managed to escape on a life boat. The hyena ate the zebra and the orangutan then
sThe Life of Pi Main Characters * Pi Patel Piscine Molitor is the protagonist around whom the book revolves, known as Pi. He grew up in Pondicherry, but left for Canada with his family. He is named after an Olympic swimming pool in Paris ‘Piscine Molitor’. He is interested in religious studies and adopts Christianity and Islam apart from Hinduism. He considers himself to be a bright student and double majors in Religion and Zoology.