Gordon Ramsay

Piscine Molitor Patel was born and raised in India. It was in India where he was named after Mamaji’s (his father’s business partner) favorite swimming pool. It was in India where he came up with the nickname Pi to stop the bullies from making fun of his name. It was in India where he fell in love with God three times and with three different ways: with Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. However, Pi learned most when he was trapped on a lifeboat for 227 with a tiger. When Pi was sixteen, his…

This book is really worth a taste of the book, the beginning of Pi is an ignorant teenager, and then because the whole family to move to Canada and take the Japanese cargo ship, but unfortunately at sea, the ship Difficult to live Pi is followed by a hyena, a broken zebra, an orangutan and an adult Bengal tiger in a lifeboat, the hyena was killed after the injured zebra and orangutan, and then replaced by a tiger Pi killed the hyenas, Pi watched these things happen, but he could do nothing,…

Richard Parker, a massive bengal tiger lost at sea for nearly a year with only a teenage boy to keep him company. Or is it the other way around; Pi, a teenage boy with only a tiger to share the boat with? As interesting as it is unlikely, but just who are Pi and Richard Parker? Pi, formally Piscine, grew up at his father’s zoo, the same one where Richard Parker came upon. As the story states, the tiger was initially named Thirsty because he was caught while drinking, yet there had been a…

“When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival,” claims the author of Life of Pi, Yann Martel, in the voice of his character Piscine “Pi” Patel. Pi survives as a castaway for 227 days after the cargo ship Tsimtsum sinks for an unknown reason, and takes Pi’s family with it. Now Pi must face survival with only a limited supply of food and water and the fully grown Bengal Tiger, Richard Parker, for company. Pi’s story shows the…

In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Piscine M. Patel (also known as Pi) is a teenager believing in three religions: Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. All three of these regions with their respective gods and deities have teached Pi morality and kindness. However, when Pi’s family sells their zoo at Pondicherry, and prepares a move to Canada, he nearly loses his morality fighting for survival after their cargo ship sank in the Pacific Ocean. Sailing on a lifeboat with 4 other animals for over 200…

Piscine Patel (known as Pi), a religious boy from Pondicherry, is part of a family who, under the motivation of India’s disastrous political state, decides to move to Canada. After the cargo ship sets sail to Canada the ship begins to sink and Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat with a hyena, orangutan, zebra and tiger, Richard Parker. All the animals die at the hands of each other, except for Richard Parker, who saves Pi from the hyena and once again from a desperate blind Frenchman at sea who…

A Spiritual Survival Guide It is nearly impossible to imagine the capacity at which Pi Patel, a young Indian boy, relies and survives because of his undying faith. The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel is a story about this very phenomenon. As this story comes into fruition, this boy is introduced as one who has double majored in zoology and religion after surviving miraculously at sea for 227 days. The very nature of this tale incorporates these ideologies in such a way that elicits strong feelings of…

Introduction Life of Pi is situated against the tumultuous time of Indian history known as the Emergency. Life of Pi is suffused by a pervasive liminality. The teenaged Pi is in movement between mainlands, in the middle of religions, and in the middle of youth and adulthood, which implies that the novel is likewise a bildungsroman. The story is a kinder, more hopeful decision contrasted with the more "sensible" story. Pi is content with his life living in the zoo with his crew. He grows up…

Chapter two of Into the Jungle introduces Alfred Wallace in the Rio dos Uaupes in the Amazon, where he had been staying for about four years discovering and collecting new animals, plants, and specimen. However, on his journey back to England in 1852, a tragic fire on the ship led him to lose almost all of his discoveries. Even though he was able to salvage some of his findings and had even been able to sell some of his specimens because of his agent Samuel Stevens, he still had an urge to go…

Imagine being lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger that’s starving of hunger and having to figure out a way not to get eaten by it. Or having to train a really dangerous tiger knowing that it might attack because it’s hungry. Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, describes one full story of a kid who’s lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger, and a kid whose family passed away when they were on a boat on their way to Canada for better job opportunities. The story with…