Essays on Life of Pi

The Life of Pi is a story about survival, and how a belief in God can make a boy into a man and how facing life and death in the Pacific Ocean can lead to either utter despair or having an unwavering faith in God…

This story, from my viewpoint, is a fanatic one. The realness the author involves in the story makes readers believing. On the other hand, he wants to describe how hard was the life of the protagonist, PI’s life. This story starts with normal family life,…

Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, is a story that tackles the topics of human nature and necessity. This story demonstrates that when one is faced with conflict and isolation, it forces one to make decisions. Time can help an individual cope with isolation and…

Imagine you’ve been stranded with a zebra, orangutan, hyena, and a hungry and unreliable Bengal tiger, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Piscine Molitor Patel, known to everyone as Pi, is a Hindu boy and a strict vegetarian who leaves his native land in…

This paper is to compare the stages of the monomyth and how they tie to The Life of Pi. A hero with a thousand faces by Joseph Campbell goes through the stages of a hero’s journey. The hero’s journey is a pattern of narrative identified…

What would you do at age of 16 if your lifestyle was shaken suddenly like the intensity of an earthquake? In the Life of Pi, Piscine Molitor Patel, a 16 year old Indian boy from Pondicherry experienced two hundred twenty-seven days lost at sea. Undoubtedly…

The novel Life of Pi, By Yann Martel, shows the readers a heroic journey of an individual who lost his family through a tragic shipwreck and was left stranded in the sea with a companion who was a tiger. Pi, who was left stranded in…

Yann Martel, of The Life of Pi fame says that, “in all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity which can be thrilling when you are young but which…

In Yann Martel’s novel “Life of Pi” the keynote of narration is enforced from the starting point of the novel with the Author’s Note. When Francis Adriubasamy says “I have a story that will make you believe in God”, it likewise anticipates that there is…

The novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel has too many characteristics of a fairy tale, too many instances that make little to no sense; The story about being in the raft with the animals is cute and all but it doesn’t seem real, its…