Title: the life of pie
Text type : book
Authour : yann martel
Life of pie text response
After deciding to sell their zoo in India and move to Canada, Santosh and Gita Patel board a freighter with their sons and a few remaining animals. Tragedy strikes when a terrible storm sinks the ship, leaving the Patels’ teenage son, Pi (Suraj Sharma), as the only human survivor. However, Pi is not alone; a fearsome Bengal tiger has also found refuge aboard the lifeboat. As days turn into weeks and weeks drag into months, Pi and the tiger must learn to trust each other if both are to survive.
This story is built around strong character development of pi . his life flips around when the ship sinks, Pi is torn from his family and left alone on a lifeboat with a bengal tiger and other wild animals.he must now become self-sufficient. Though he fears for his life, he rises to challenge . Something that really intrigued me in this story is when he eats raw fish although he is vegetarian and religious (hindu).Questioning his own values, he decides that his vegetarianism is a luxury so he eats it. I can understand that because it was life or death for him he ran out of all the food he had so that was the only choice for him. Watching this part in the movie made me realize how lucky I am. I can eat whatever I want. The message I took from this part of the story is I should be more grateful for what I got .pie determination to survive is really inspiring stranded in the ocean with a freaking tiger i can’t imagine what that must have felt like.
“So that I can sort of accept. But Muslim? It’s totally foreign to our tradition. They’re outsiders.”
“They’ve been here a very long time too. They’re a hundred more times as numerous than the Christians.
“That makes no difference. They’re outsiders.”
This conversation between Pi’s parents makes me think of myself in a way, since Pi is very much religious and his parents are not, and in my family it’s the opposite, my parents and older sister are fairly religious, while I on the other hand am not. Also the two adults are almost fighting over religion, and that also makes me think of my own religiousness, and how personally, I do not care who has what religion, or what their race is or anything. I think that it doesn’t really matter who practices what religions, or lack thereof, or how they choose to do that. I believe that there is room for both science and religion,
There are many examples of animals coming into surprising living arrangements. All are instances of that animal equivalent of anthropomorphism: zoomorphism, where an animal takes a human being, or another animal, to be one of its kind.
Anthropomorphism, the instance where an animal may take a human as one of its own, reminds me of a man named Shaun Ellis, who has a book and a few different documentaries. Shaun Ellis went into the Canadian wild, and for two years, lived with a pack of wild wolves with nothing more than the shirt on his back and a few food rations. None of the scientists said that he would even get close to the wolves, never mind be accepted by them as one of their The man who lives with wolves own, yet Shaun lived with the wolf pack, before returning to society and starting his own domesticated wolf pack called The Wolf Center in the United Kingdom. Just like how Pi was saying that dogs and other animals sometimes take another species as its own, the wolves took Shaun Ellis and even though he appeared as a human, who kill hundreds of wolves every year, they took him in, gave him shelter, protection from other wild animals, and even brought him food, and the biggest of all, letting him into their world.
I think that it is really cool how some species of animals, wild or domesticated, will treat a human as one of their own species, or even another animal,. This happens especially if the animal is a social animal, and is looking for a family group to belong to.
The message I took from this story is that We all have a built-in desire for survival; some more, some less. I believe my desire to live, to survive, to just keep going, grew from experiencing this book.
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