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Ang Lee's Life Of Pi

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Good morning. Discoveries that challenge original perceptions stimulate new and re-evaluated ideas and values which are confronting and provocative since they expose us to different environments. Today I will be arguing that both Ang Lee’s Life of Pi and Robert Gray’s Flames and Dangling Wire significantly support this idea. In Life of Pi, Lee explores the impact of experiences of hardship to lead to new and renewed discoveries of self and spirituality through the character of Pi. Similarly, Flames and Dangling Wire demonstrates the effect of misfortunes to lead to transformative self-discoveries.
New environments stimulate spiritual discoveries that invoke deep re-evaluations of an individual’s initial beliefs of the nature of God, leading

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