Life Of Pi Rhetorical Analysis

Pi’s mentor on the journey was a God. He exercised three religions at once. These religions include Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. “We are all born without religion, until some figure introduces us to God” (58). Pi navigated the threshold when the ship he was traveling on, Tsimtsum, sank in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Despite the fact that Pi earnestly strives to make the best of his situation and maintain his faith in God, at times, he is pushed past his tipping point. Like Jesus, he feels as if God deserted him and struggles to overcome his doubts in the Almighty. But in spite of Pi’s deplorable and hopeless situation, he still believes in the goodness of God: “Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression…. The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a

With the combination of magical realistic events and Pi’s religious beliefs, Pi along with the reader a contemplates life’s concepts. From the very beginning, Pi makes his love and yearning for religion clear. As Life of Pi progresses, the protagonist picks up multiple religions as he travels through the novel. With the addition of first Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity, Pi gains attention from leaders and priests of these faiths. Conflict commences with the religious leaders of these individual faiths.

Since he is still young, it is a road of up and downs, trial and error, to understand what it is like to become an independent adult. The mental boundaries mostly consist of how Pi’s religion(s) play into his life and his decisions. Because Pi is religious,

Pi simply answered ¨I like to explore different religions and learn about all of them¨. That got Lady Macbeth and the Knight very angry and they argued over how you can only believe in one religion and only practice one. Finny sat in the back trying to please everyone saying ¨its ok guys it's not that big of a deal¨. He shouldn't have said that, everyone turned on Finny at that time yelling at him saying ¨religion doesn't matter huh¨?? Finny then started crying and ran off to a different room to cry. Beowulf followed him in the room and tried helping him but Finny called him a fat ugly monster.

After this, Pi describes the killing of the cook/hyena surprisingly easy, this is the shadow self and survival instincts shining through as well. what does this say about pi? Has this changed him? Go into more depth, this seems a little rushed. Concluding

Thus lead Pi to gather up food and head back on his voyage home. The road back to Pi’s somewhat normal life begins after he leaves the uncanny, floating island. Pi has felt many levels of fear and wanting death to come his way but this was the climax of his tolerance for life.

I think the meaning behind Pi’s reply, “so it is with God.” is that a life is better with some kind of believe than one without because Pi’s original story with the animals in less tragic and horrific in comparison to Pi’s second story. For an example, on page 309, Pi has to witness his mother be stabbed to death and then later beheaded by the brute-like cook, “He killed her. The cook killed my mother….He caught her by the wrist and twisted it. SHe shrieked and fell.

This quote from Life of Pi in chapter 24 I believe is an example of a literary device called foreshadowing. In this quote spoken by Pi, it is able to describe the events to come in the novel. It deals with the truth and his imagination. However it is up to the reader to decide what is truly certain and what is made up from his imagination. It is important to the novel because it relates to religion where the whole theme of the novel is focused on.

Secondly, as young Pi and Briony stand on the threshold of adolescence, their unhealthy combination of confidence and naivety threatens the security of themselves and others. Afterwards, In Life of Pi, Yann Martel explores this tension between childhood encouragement and the adolescent admonishment through Pi’s father and mother different approaches to Pi’s interdenominational faith. Furthermore, Gita comprising the process in which her child is going through to choose a path and she claims ‘he is young… he is still finding his way’. Pi’s father, however, realizes that Pi will carry his quixotic beliefs with him through adolescence to adulthood, resulting in his cruel life lesson with Richard Parker. Next, Emily diminishes Briony to a small, dependent child, creating disparity between the precocious.

Pi indicates, “You may be astonished that in such a short period of time I could go from weeping over the muffled killing of a flying fish to gleefully bludgeoning to death a dorado” (Martel 89). This clearly states that Pi is a dynamic character through this time span. At first, his religious values made it hard for him to kill the flying fish, but when the dorado was killed “gleefully” he goes against his religious values. Conclusively, people may think that Pi does not change as a person, but evidently, he is looked upon as a dynamic character after the actions of killing the flying

Choosing the better story seems easy; however, this idea never crossed my mind until I read Life of Pi. The beginning of this novel promises the writer a story that will make him believe in God. Once the novel starts, we learn that Pi Patel is a believer of Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. These three religions all offer different stories, but when they come together they help Pi to survive his journey with a Bengal tiger and several other animals. Once he finally makes it to land, Pi chooses to change the animal characters into humans to make the story more believable.

The movie begins with Pi describing how he was introduced to religion through Hinduism, Christianity and Islam. Pi states “None of us know God unless he is introduced to us.” Pi says that throughout his life he came to know a few of the Hindu gods through stories about the world and through experiences. He says, “the Gods were my super heroes growing up.”

Life of Pi is a movie about Pi, a shipwreck survivor, and his epic journey of discovery and faith. It is based on Yann Martel’s novel with the same name, and the movie, directed by Ang Lee, makes use of magical realism to convey many themes related to life and spirituality. Many significant symbols are also used to showcase the characteristics of magical realism. In particular, water and the carnivorous island were two important symbols that represented the theme of spirituality in Life of Pi.

If faced with great challenges would you choose to stick by your morals, or do whatever it takes to survive? This is the same question Piscine Molitor Patel or “pi” as he likes to be called, faced. From being stranded at sea for 227 days, to losing his family, Pi’s story is truly extraordinary. Through the use of personification, similes and metaphors proves that hardships in life can truly change someone. Yann Martel describes Pi’s journey with great detail making a story that will truly make you believe in god.