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  • Learning To Read

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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

  • Pi Allegory

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    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

  • Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

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    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

  • Life Of Pi Argumentative Essay

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    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

  • Just Juice By Karen Hesse: Literary Analysis

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    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

  • Summary: The Importance Of Literacy

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    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

  • How Is Life Of Pi A Dynamic Character

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    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

  • Orange Symbolism In Life Of Pi

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    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

  • Realism In Life Of Pi

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    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

  • Essay On Life Of Pi Religion

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    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

  • How Does Galbraith Show Courage In 'Snowfire'?

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    great bravery when she is trying to enter the RATS compound to help the tigers. “We have got to kill the generator [or the tigers will be massacred]. Tania is always trying to do as much as she can to save the tigers and is helping Michael destroy the read hand. Tania shows great courage and with the help of various characters they might just save the tigers. Casper a character that shows great courage to spare the tigers of Siberia. Casper sacrifices himself in order to spare the tigers. Casper is

  • John Wilson Character Analysis

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    In the story, Zebra was a character that changed from his experiences in order to discover what he loved. For example, the text states, “Then a year ago, racing down Franklin Avenue he had given himself that push and had begun to turn into an eagle, when a huge rushing shadow appeared in his line of vision and crashed into him and plunged him into a darkness from which he emerged very, very slowly. . . .” (Potok 48) Starting from the beginning of the story, Zebra had to change. This quote shows

  • Steve Irwin Passion For Wild Life

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    Steve Irwin once stated, “I have no fear of losing my life. If I have to save a koala, or crocodile, or a kangaroo or a snake mate, I will save it.” Steve had no fear in doing what he loved. He went after his life ambitions and became what he set out to be. Steve Irwin is known all over the world as an adventurer and television star. Steve spent all his life protecting the environment and being a guardian angel to the animals around us. Steve was and still is one of the most influential wildlife

  • The Lady Or The Tiger Analysis

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    Lady Vs. Tiger In the story “ The Lady , or the Tiger?” By Frank R. Stockson there is a semi-barbaric king who’s way of punishing a criminal was by giving him two options which in this case were two doors. He could open either door he pleased in which one of them had a tiger and the other the lady , if he opened the one with the tiger the tiger would immediately eat him but if he got the lady he would have to marry her and make a family. This was actually a fair decision because he had no idea

  • The Importance Of Religion In Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

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    Pi, a teenager who believed in Christianity, Hinduism and Islam was stuck in a lifeboat with a tiger. During his adventure, Pi’s belief and trust in God help him got through a serious of difficulties. Along with Pi’s concern and trust in the God, Pi survived the end of the novel. Although religion makes Pi feel guilty and concerned in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, religion still helped Pi to survived when he was on the sea because religion was Pi’s spiritual pillar, and it made Pi believe God could save

  • Survival Of Life In Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

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    Pi could survive on the ocean for many months is a miracle, and he even stayed with a tiger during the venture. He probably was eaten by the tiger, but he didn’t. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Pi survival depended on his past experiences, Pi not only survives, he becomes stronger due to learning how to swim when he was young, believing in three religions, and stay with animals for a long time because he father used to own a zoo. Learning how to swim when Pi was young helps him to survive when he

  • Summary Of Bill Reed's 'The Men Who Saved Tomorrow'

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    William AllenMrs. DesLauriersAdvanced English Composition26 March 2018 The Men Who Saved Tomorrow Sitting on a hill in southern China, a man watched as planes, tattooed with the mouth of a shark, took on mighty Japan. He didn’t know it yet, but the very next day that man would write saying: “They’re fighting like Tigers. Like Flying Tigers.” On that fateful day, the legend of the Flying Tigers became one for the history books. While defending mainland China, these brave men created something that

  • Pi Fear Quotes

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    In Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, an Indian boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean for 227 days with a tiger, named Richard Parker, to keep him company. While Pi is on the boat, he has to take care of himself and Richard Parker to avoid being killed by the tiger. Being all alone in the middle of the Pacific with a tiger strikes fear into Pi. He says, “...If your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of

  • Life Of Pi Vs Story Of Keesh Essay

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    The two stories, "The Life of Pi," by Yann Martel and "The Story of Keesh," by Jack London share a typical theme, survival against the forces of nature. With Pi in the ocean and Jack in the Arctic. Yet not at all like Pi, Keesh volunteered to keep his whole town alive while Pi, was constrained into his own circumstance, which was being stranded amidst the sea on a raft with a tiger on board. They both have a lot of similarities and contrast, in topics and different part of the story. For instance

  • Andy Is The Tiger Analysis

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    Andy faced multiple challenges in tears of a tiger but the most obvious one is the lost of his best friend Rob. He struggled with telling people how he was feeling about the accident and only opened up to very little people. I think that tears of a tiger is a great title for this book because I think it shows what Andy is like. The title is “Tears of a Tiger.” In the story Andy Is the tiger. Monty is the only character in the book compares Andy to a tiger he says “well I drew a picture last week