Conflicts And Conflict In Life Of Pi, By Yann Marti

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The story of Life of Pi is indeed a unique and interesting story that is written by Yann Martell, the author of the book of Life of Pi. This is because this story shows and reveals about the conflicts of man and nature, society and himself. In life or other real life stories, men have always encounter problems and conflicts that go against their ids and things that could have helped them to achieve their pleasures. This has always been occurring in everyone’s daily life as there will always be issues and problems regardless of the place and time. However, in this story, both Pi and his family members had faced challenges and conflicts that have been shown in the book of Life of Pi. The conflicts are of Pi versus the sea, Pi versus his inner beast and Pi and his family versus the society due to the change in government of India. Basically, the story of Life of Pi contains conflicts of the man and nature, society and he himself which can be found in the book itself.
Among these conflicts is the man versus society. Pi and his family were forced to leave India and live in Canada. This is because of the change in government in India and the taking over of India government power by the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. In 1975, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was found and charged guilty regarding her 1971 election campaign and was ordered to resign. However, Indira Gandhi declared the state of emergency whereby she will give herself full power to rule India by decree. This state of emergency had been lasted for about 18 months and had been officially ended in the March 1977 when Gandhi called for another round of election. Moreover, the historical legacy of this Emergency became more and more highly controversial as Gandhi’s political oppone...

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...ves regardless of where and when they are. It is a matter of how and the ways in order to overcome the problems faced in their daily lives and keep moving forward. For example, Pi never gave up on hopes of being rescued while being stranded on the lifeboat in the sea with Richard Parker. Also, he used his knowledge about the animals and their habits to help him protect himself from the hyena, zebra, orangutan or known as Orange Juice and the adult Bengal tiger, known as Richard Parker. This is because without problems and challenges for us, humans to overcome them, we will never be able to have the experience and the ways of overcoming the challenges and problems as every mistake we make will be a lesson for the future. Furthermore, we will fall behind, unable to keep moving forward in life and end up giving up hope in life. Therefore, do not give up hope and faith.

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