Change In Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

While on the road to nowhere, Pi starts to acquire water from the rain and obtains food to stock up while he’s worrying about the 400 pound tiger that’s on the lifeboat while Pi is on a small raft. When Pi starts to tame Richard Parker he can finally call him a friend and now has a purpose. As a Hindu, Pi does not eat meat but that went out of the window when he catches a fish and eats it raw to stay alive. When it comes down to survival there is no preference in what to eat.

“Without Richard Parker, I wouldn’t be alive today to tell you my story.” The significance of this quote is that the presence of Richard saves him from the effects of loneliness. “The lower you are, the higher your mind will soar.” This quote is important because when Pi is at his lowest point, he reaches for his only remaining sources of salvation, which is his faith and imagination. “Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The element couldn’t be more simple, or the stake higher.” The quote significance is that the few that survive the ship are force to face each other in a strategic battle of wits to see who will

1. Reason One of the most enjoyable aspects of the novel was the way Pi presents his point of view in his telling of the story. In the earlier stages of the book Pi tells us of his discovery of religion which he turns to for hope later on when the cargo ship him and his family travel on sinks, leaving him orphaned and lost. Throughout the novel he retells the story of his survival with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker and the situation of their survival.

In addition, Pi decides to feed a “450-pound” (Martel 61) bengal tiger named Richard Parker for his own self preservation. He acknowledges, “I had to tame him. It was at that moment that I realized this necessity…More likely the worst would happen: the simple passage of time, in which his animal toughness would easily outlast my human frailty” (Martel 164). This means that Pi fears that the fierce animal strength and power of Richard Parker would eventually kill and eat him for food.

Pi’s resourcefulness during his journey led him to survival. When he had gotten shipwrecked, he uses life-jackets to build a raft to keep him afloat. He even managed to salvage Richard Parker, who helps relieve Pi of his anxiety. He concentrates his effort on training, feeding, providing for, and working with Richard Parker is the main reason what helps him to be focused, which is what eventually saves his life. He’s even able to adapt easily to his surroundings by making these pragmatic decisions. One decision that he had to make was to kill his first fish, even though killing animals goes against his morals of being a vegetarian. “You may be astonished that in a short period of time I could go from weeping over the muffled killing of a 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

Also, because Pi’s family background, his father is working for zoo, so he was interested in animals. He is on the boat with the tiger named Richard Parker only, and he started to observe him. “He couldn’t be hungry. Or at least not dangerously hungry. Was he thirsty?

HE must stay far from the tiger. With the tiger being on the boat, at first, it is impossible for Pi to be on the same boat. Pi, finds many helpful items in the boat. He find water and food which he transports to his raft away from the malicious tiger. As time passes, the tiger is getting hungrier and Pi's fear that the tiger would devour him are near. One night, a huge whale slams into Pi's boat causing him to lose all his food and fresh water. Being stranded in the middle of the sea knowing death was around the corner makes Pi want to fight and

Before psychoanalysing anything, terms need to be defined. First, ID. ID is the homeplace to all unconscious desires, like the unconscious desire to fit in a community, or be accepted. It also houses unconscious fears, such as the fear of being rejected. The Ego is the part of mind in which is mostly conscious, and processes experiences.

In the beginning of the novel, Pi’s father teaches him a horrifying lesson through the acts of the tiger Mahisha. His father showed him what happens when a

Yann Martel keeps the story of Pi's long voyage moving at an interesting pace. You know from the beginning that Pi will survive, which can disturb the curiosity authors usually want from the audience regarding to the ending. But at times you wonder how he will overcome each challenge he faces. Martel doesn't allow Richard Parker’s character to develop, he is nothing more than a dangerous Bengal tiger and Pi was never more than a desperate boy lost at sea. The first section of the book was very fast paced, and middle section is their entire life boat ride, their survival adventure dragged on so long I was desperate to skip some pages and skip straight to the climax. Martel set a pattern of repetitiveness throughout the entire book, leaving

In Part 2, chapter 38, Pi says “I am worried about my family. I can’t get to the level where the cabins are.” This shows how he wanted to help his family get out of the ship safely. However, he lost his whole family in the shipwreck while he was thrown into a lifeboat. This could have massively affected Pi’s mental health and his will to survive.

The author of life of Pi, Yann Martel says “This book was born as I was hungry.” Pi’s life is a test of faith bravery and pure luck. So far Pi’s luck has not run out. Richard Parker is satisfied with the hyena, and zebra in his stomach. Pi has found a frenchman with food and an island full of meekrats. Weeks later he is rescued from the island and is visited by two japanese men. He told them two stories. Even though the first story had Pi’s boat life animal companions, it did not obtain the feeling and innervation that ensured the second story’s superiority.

The major theme in Life of Pi is the will to live. This theme is front and center through most of the book. Pi and the animals in the lifeboat fight for their survival from the very beginning of being shipwrecked at sea. Through this theme, Martel shows that both humans and animals will go to extremes in order to survive, sometimes altering their very nature. Pi acknowledges this change in him, by stating, “I descended to a level of savagery I never imagined possible” (Martel 197). Pi is forced to desert his beliefs so that he can survive. He resorts to eating fish and turtles even though he is a vegetarian and he takes life in order to eat by killing the fish and turtles himself. Pi held these beliefs strong until his survival was at stake.

The young man, Pi is stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with several animals that escaped from the zoo including an orange Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. In the course of his journey, Pi is subjected to extreme conditions such as death and starvation which force his hand into taking radical measures as a means of survival; measures that go against his morality and everything he ever stood, and stands for. Pi’s faith is put to test on several instances, according to Hinduism; Pi was expected to observe a strict vegetarian diet all the time which proved to be impossible to maintain in the middle of the sea. In order to survive Pi was forced to eat whatever food nature brought his way, and in this case, lots of fishes and some birds. It was a choice between life and death; Pi was a vegetarian whose morality demanded he respects all life, however, he must eat something or he will die of

The theme of freedom arises again as Pi finds himself in a fight for survival at sea. He is without responsibility to anyone else, he is without any need to be anywhere in the world, he is perpetually in motion; yet he has probably never been less free, for he must always be putting his survival above all else. An example of this is that he can no longer choose to be a vegetarian; he must eat meat to stay alive. Thus the theme I have chosen develops the course of the film. Throughout the film, the primacy of survival, of life, greatly restricts “freedom,” and thus redefines the very