Life of Pi Essay
Life has tons of struggles, problems, and challenges in it that we all have to go through, but sometimes, those issues can turn into something much more. In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, we follow Piscine Molitor Patel, a young boy who goes from his home in India where his father runs a zoo to stranded in the middle of the sea on a lifeboat with a tiger. Pi has many beliefs that were formulated while he lived in India that we see appear on the lifeboat. These beliefs helped him survive through his time of peril. Pi’s three beliefs are that religion is important, routine makes life less complicated, and that someone needs to take charge in order for things to go right.
One belief that Pi learned in India was that religion …show more content…
This goes hand in hand with religion because he would make it a habit to pray daily, thus being a religious routine. He would go to the zoo everyday after school, another routine. He also went to school everyday, and something as simple as that is still a routine. These routines gave him order and organization in life, the same way our schedule at school gives us order, he had a set list of what he did everyday in his mind. This made life less complicated because it was easy, he did the same things everyday and didn’t have to worry much about …show more content…
Pi is stuck with Richard Parker, a bengal tiger. Tigers are territorial animals, and like to mark their territory. Pi would have been in great danger if he didn’t decide to tame RP, because the tiger would have ultimately believed it was superior to Pi and would have attempted to kill him for being in his space. Therefore, Pi took a role quite similar to his Father’s back in India and took charge of the situation, taming RP with a whistle, and over time, becoming the dominant being out of the two of them. This helped Pi avoid not only being eaten alive, but also gaining a relationship with RP as he was no longer afraid of him, and could find comfort and companionship instead. Pi states, “I had to tame him. It was at that moment that I realized this necessity. It was not a question or him or me, but him and me” (Martel
Life has tons of struggles, problems, and challenges in it that we all have to go through, but sometimes, those issues can turn into something much more. In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, we follow Piscine Molitor Patel, a young boy who goes from his home in India where his father runs a zoo to stranded in the middle of the sea on a lifeboat with a tiger. Pi has many beliefs that were formulated while he lived in India that we see appear on the lifeboat. These beliefs helped him survive through his time of peril. Pi’s three beliefs are that religion is important, routine makes life less complicated, and that someone needs to take charge in order for things to go right.
One belief that Pi learned in India was that religion …show more content…
This goes hand in hand with religion because he would make it a habit to pray daily, thus being a religious routine. He would go to the zoo everyday after school, another routine. He also went to school everyday, and something as simple as that is still a routine. These routines gave him order and organization in life, the same way our schedule at school gives us order, he had a set list of what he did everyday in his mind. This made life less complicated because it was easy, he did the same things everyday and didn’t have to worry much about …show more content…
Pi is stuck with Richard Parker, a bengal tiger. Tigers are territorial animals, and like to mark their territory. Pi would have been in great danger if he didn’t decide to tame RP, because the tiger would have ultimately believed it was superior to Pi and would have attempted to kill him for being in his space. Therefore, Pi took a role quite similar to his Father’s back in India and took charge of the situation, taming RP with a whistle, and over time, becoming the dominant being out of the two of them. This helped Pi avoid not only being eaten alive, but also gaining a relationship with RP as he was no longer afraid of him, and could find comfort and companionship instead. Pi states, “I had to tame him. It was at that moment that I realized this necessity. It was not a question or him or me, but him and me” (Martel