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few seconds to take it in I ask why why¨ why am I getting held back!! With sorrow on their face about to cry they said you can 't read as the other kids. Learning to read was going to be a challenge but I knew I had to overcome it but it was later on though. I didn 't like that when I was younger but now I like that I did. When I got older it was easier for me to read then with excitement I knew I was going to get past all reading test that come my way. I also knew I was going to work hard with frustration

After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a lifeboat remains floating on the blue Pacific ocean. The only survivors are a sixteen year old teenager named Pi, a hyena, a zebra witch has a broken leg, a female orangutan and a 450 pound Royal Bengal tiger. It is a surprisingly entertaining story that involves the animal kingdom. The story itself does not concern itself overly with plausibility and at times Martel lets his imagination run wild, using allegory and metaphor to further the story (and to

There has been an argument about whether or not it’s a person’s should be accountable for their actions in life or death situations. I believe that people shouldn’t be accountable for their actions. When people argue about this topic they tend to leave out examples on why their point of view is correct. In many situations people have to do things that they don’t do everyday. Well, being in life or death situations isn’t really a normal thing to be in for most people. For instance in the Life of

Literacy Literacy is a beneficial acquisition for developing knowledge, gaining information and understanding of how things are and why things happen. According to Dewey, language has always been a medium were culture is transmitted through. Therefore, Literacy is a crucial acquisition one must learn to be self-equipped for science field, technology field, and office field work and many more. Initially, the ability to speak and write is Literacy, not only that but to be able to understand and recognize

Choosing the “better” story seems like an easy task; however, this idea never crossed my mind until I read Life of Pi. The beginning of the novel promises the writer a story that will make him believe in God. However, 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 allow Pi to survive his journey on the boat for 227 days. While on this journey, Pi is stuck on his raft

fish. He has a very limited supply of food, and he is already beginning to starve. Pi says, “I thought this was remarkable considering how little I had eaten in the last several days.”, and “After a breakfast of three biscuits and one can of water, I read what the survival manual had to say on the subject.” (Martel 83). This evidence shows that Pi has to kill the fish because he needs food for himself, and for

centers on Juice who despises going to school because she lacks academic excellence. However, Juice is skillful at working with her hands, and helping her parents out. In the end, Juice learns to seek education and the family decides to all learn how to read and work together to make ends meet. This book reveals the underlying inequality in the American school system. The hidden curriculum in our schools is designed

The book Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, is a very unique story. It is about a boy, Pi, who is trapped in the middle of the ocean with a tiger. Some after reading it, think this story is real. Yann Martel wanted to express how fiction is important to a reader “If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams” (XII). Martel definitely believes in his work. He believes in stimulation

Blueprint and Refined Thesis Template INTRODUCTION Lead: “It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise, you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.” (316-317) Refined Thesis Statement: In Yann Martel’s best-selling novel the “Life of Pi”, Pi’s voyage on the lifeboat, helps him find his true identity. Three Supporting Arguments: • At a youthful age, Pi experiments three different religions; Islam

A long book with a never ending story. One could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time. Alas, there was no scripture in the lifeboat… At the very least, if I had a good novel! But there was only the survival manual, which I must have read a thousand times over the course of my ordeal.” Theme: The Importance of Storytelling React: I think that books are an important part of

Yann Martel wrote a fascinating story about the journey of an Indian boy, Piscine Molitor Patel, simply titled Life of Pi. The book revolves around Pi who is forced by his parents to move from India to Canada, with his family and the animals they owned at their zoo. Disaster struck as the family was traveling to Canada when the Japanese cargo ship they were on crashed and sunk. Pi escaped and made it to a lifeboat with some of the animals. The book follows Pi’s journey after the crash and shows how

Life of Pi is a recent book that I’ve read for my grade 11 English summative and it took me approximately 20-25 days to read. The author of the book was Yann Martel and the length of it was approximately 356 pages long. The genre of the book was fictional, magical realism, adventurous, and philosophical. The theme of the story was about faith and survival. Piscine Molitor Patel or Pi Patel was the protagonist of the book who grows up in a small town in India. Pi is the narrator for most of the novel

Dillon R. Johnson Professor Tyler Fish EN 102 7 May 2017 Orange: A Symbol of Survival in Life of Pi The story Life of Pi is about the protagonist’s (Piscine Molitor Patel) struggle to survive against seemingly unsurmountable circumstances that he is faced with. Orange has traditionally been a color associated with safety and survival, that is often used to display a necessary contrast between an object and its environment to propagate enhanced safety. In Life of Pi Yann Martel uses the color orange

“It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise, you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.” (316-317). The novel “Life of Pi” is about a young protagonist Piscine Molitor Patel that has faced traumatic obstacles, and had to struggle for his survival, in a heart of the Pacific Ocean. In Yann Martel’s best-selling novel, the “Life of Pi”, Pi’s voyage on the lifeboat, helps him find his true individuality

The adventure novel—Life of Pi revolves around a 17 year old Indian boy who had an inconceivable journey with a tiger on the Pacific Ocean. When Pi and his family moved to Canada, the ship sank by the catastrophe. Pi’s family died by this tragedy, but Pi survived on a small boat. Although there’re several animals on the boat, only Pi and Richard Parker survived at the end of th adventure which happened on the Pacific Ocean. Furthermore, Richard Parker left Pi away, and he went to the forest without

In the novel “American Born Chinese” by Gene Luen Yang (2006), it talks about three different people’s stories. The author starts off with telling a story about a monkey called the Monkey King, who lives in the jungle, seeking for higher power to become considered a god in the book. The author also tells a story about an American born Chinese boy named Jin Wang, who moves from San Francisco and struggles with fitting in at a new school. The last story the author tells is about a boy named Danny

Study Habits Many students value the importance of education as it helps them to achieve their goals in life. Study habits are the ways of a student to improve their ideas academically. Study habits can also be done through positive and negative actions of a student. Good study habit refers to reading articles, writing notes, listening and reviewing lesson for the advantage of learning. On the other hand, bad study habits include addiction to computer games, ditching class, and being late in passing

The family decides to move from India to Canada, bringing many of the animals with them. When the freighter carrying the family hits a storm, the stage is set for the main act – Pi is left adrift on a 26-foot lifeboat, lost in the Pacific Ocean, in the company of a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker—all vying in a grim competition for survival. His faith is tested as an adolescent when his father is forced to give up the family zoo, where Pi realises he's

Is it fundamentally dangerous to think that humans and wild animals are not so different? Humans are just animals: We establish territories, we need shelter and food, and we even share the ability to use language and tools with many of our fellow creatures. Not to mention, we also tend to see similar emotional expressions in animals. Then again, when you 're face-to-face with a tiger, the differences between human and animal, and predator and prey, become pretty important. In Life of Pi, one theme

Surviving in an extreme environment requires one to use different strategies in order to survive. In the “The Story of Keesh” Keesh goes out in the cold and hunts for a fair portion of meat himself after the council dismisses his request for additional meat. Then in the “Life of Pi” Pi is left alone with a tiger in a lifeboat in a deserted ocean after a storm, he does everything he can to survive. Both “The Story of Keesh” and “Life of Pi” contain characters that need to be not only physically but