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How to perform a rhetorical analysis
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Introduction: George
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Transition – Yann Martel is a Canadian author that has spent time in Europe, Asia, South America, and North America. Martel created a multi-cultural work that combines magical realism and survival fiction in his 2001 novel, Life of Pi. Life of Pi is the story of Pi Patel, an Indian boy with unique experiences with religion and animals, surviving 227 days as a castaway with animals after the cargo ship transporting Pi and the zoo creatures makes an unscheduled stop at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Martel uses a philosophical, reflective tone as he illustrates the monumental changes Pi undergoes as his time at sea increases.
CLAIM – In Life of Pi, Yann Martel uses symbolism to develop themes
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In his life prior to the sinking of the ship, he was a vegetarian. However, he knew that if he wanted to survive he would have to eat fish. He struggled with this at first, and felt as if he “was now as guilty as Cain”(Martel 183).
Quote ANALYSIS (what does it mean? Why was it used? How does it communicate the subtopic of the body paragraph?) This tells the reader how difficult it was to kill an animal at the start of his journey. It sets the stage for how Pi will change and develop as the conditions get rougher and he is challenged more and more by life’s force.
Evidence 2 - After this murder, he killed many more and it was no longer an issue for him. Pi reached the maximum levels of hunger when he tried the cannibalistic path at one point. At the end of chapter 90, Richard Parker kills a man who was also lost at sea. The tiger saves Pi from being strangled by the frenchman, and the two end up eating him. Pi claimed to have eaten only “some of his flesh” that “slipped into his mouth nearly
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Pi that arrives to the island is his good moral personality. Pi realizes that if he stays in the island he could be dead. This means that his violent personality is growing so much that his good personality could be killed eventually.
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TOPIC statement- The Color Orange represents survival and the drive to push on.
EVIDENCE from the book – at least two specific quotes required- don’t forget to place the quote in context “It seems orange -such a nice Hindu colour- is the colour of survival because the whole inside of the boat and the tarpaulin and life jackets and life buoy and the oars and most every other significant object aboard was orange” (Martel 138).
Quote ANALYSIS (what does it mean? Why was it used? How does it communicate the subtopic of the body paragraph?) This quote is used to directly state that the color orange is a symbol of survival. I says all of the most important objects that are needed for Pi to survive, are orange. This quote ties all further situations that have orange with survival.
Evidence 2
“Warmth came only when the sun, looking like an electrically lit orange…” (Martel
Stranded for 227 days at sea in a lifeboat, with no one else except an adult Bengal tiger. This is exactly what the main character Pi, in "The Life of Pi" went through. "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel is a story about a boy named Piscine Molitor Patel, an Indian boy who survives more than seven months floating on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean, with no one else but a 450-pound tiger (Cooper). Yann Martel was born on June 25, 1963, in Salamanca, Spain. His parents, Emile Martel and Nicole Perron, were both born in Canada. He spent his childhood in several different countries, including France, Mexico, the United States, Canada, and Costa Rica. As an adult, he lived in many other places but one of them was India, which may be where he got inspiration for writing “Life of Pi”. Yann Martel uses the literary elements similes and foreshadowing, to express the theme that believing in religion can give you the faith to want to survive.
Through the powerful diction of the Eye of the Tiger, thoughts of hard-work and grit are sparked. The
This is when the main story starts. The rest of the book describe Pi’s attempts to survive and train Richard Parker. Most of it revolves around his catching food from his surroundings and trying not to go crazy while alone with the
In Life of Pi by Yann Martel, the author uses the elements of voice to convey that Pi believes that religion is up for interpretation by each individual, rather than a global set of rules. After Pi explains and lists the actions of others, he begins to explain why they are wrong. He begins by noting that God should “be defended” “on the inside”, instead of “on the outside” (71). Building on that, Pi continues by comparing a “battlefield” to “the small clearing of each heart” (71). This metaphor of a battle on the inside of a person is shown by the elements of voice. By using similar sentence length throughout the paragraph, Pi shows that he is logically and calmly explaining. The paradox of a battle on the inside combined with parallelism shows
When they got to the shore, Pi realized that he needed to survive without Richard Parker because he left him without looking
Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, is a fictional novel written in 2001 that explores the primacy of survival by employing symbolism, foreshadowing and motifs. This story follows the life of the protagonist, Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel, as he embarks on his journey as a castaway. After boarding the Tsimtsum which carries Pi and his family along with a menagerie of animals, an abysmal storm capsizes the ship leaving Pi as the only survivor, though he is not alone. The great Bengal tiger, Richard Parker, also survives the shipwreck and during the 227 days that Pi and Richard Parker are stranded at sea together, the two must learn to coexist and trust one another for survival. Through Pi and Richard Parker’s struggles to remain alive, Martel explores the primal idea of survival by employing literary techniques.
Pi tells the chinese officials 2 accounts, one that involves animals and then one without animals. One of the officials, Mr. Okamoto connects the two tales together, “‘So the Taiwanese sailor is the zebra, his [Pi’s] mother is the orang-utan, the cook is… the hyena - which means he’s the tiger!’”(page 392). Pi creates the narrative with animals to cope with the things he saw, which were truly traumatic. In addition Pi and Richard Parker go through similar physical obstacles. One example of this occurs on page 304 “I was staring into his [Richard Parker’s] eyes as if I were an eye doctor, while he was looking back vacantly. Only a blind wild cat would fail to react to such a stare … The next day I started feeling a stinging in my eyes … By noon, everything was pitch black” . If Richard Parker is real he probably would not go blind at nearly the same time as Pi, tiger bodies are different than human ones, this reaffirms that Richard Parker is a figment of Pi’s
Having just experienced the sinking of his family’s ship, and being put onto a life boat with only a hyena, Pi felt completely lost and alone. When he sees Richard Parker, the Bengal tiger from his family’s zoo, it is a familiar face to him. His initial reaction is to save the life of his familiar friend so that he may have a companion, and a protector aboard the lifeboat. Suddenly Pi realizes just what he is doing. He is saving the life of Richard Parker, by welcoming him, a 450 pound Bengal tiger, onto the small lifeboat. He experiences a change of heart when helping the tiger onto the boat. Pi realizes that he is now posing a threat on his own life. With Richard Parker on the boat, Pi is faced with not only the fight to survive stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but the fight to survive living with a meat eating tiger. The change of heart that Pi experiences might possibly mean that he is an impulsive thinker. It may mean that he often does something on impulse without thinking it through, and then later regrets his actions.
This unimaginable tale, is the course of events upon Pi’s journey in the Pacific ocean after the ship that Pi and his family were aboard crashes, leaving him stranded with a tiger named Richard Parker, an orangutan, a zebra, and a hyena. Pi loses everything he has and starts to question why this is happening to him. This is parallel to the story of Job. Job is left with nothing and is experiencing great suffering and he begins to demand answers from God. Both Pi and Job receive no answers, only being left with their faith and trust. To deal with this great suffering Pi begins to describe odd things which begin to get even more unbelievable and ultimately become utterly unrealistic when he reaches the cannibalistic island. Richard Parker’s companionship serves to help Pi through these events. When the reader first is intoduced to Richard Parker he emerges from the water, making this symbolic of the subconscious. Richard Parker is created to embody Pi’s alter ego. Ironically, each of these other animals that Pi is stranded with comes to symbolize another person. The orangutan represents Pi’s mother, the zebra represents the injured sailor, and the hyena represents the cook. Pi fabricated the people into animals in his mind to cope with the disillusion and trails that came upon him while stranded at the erratic and uncontrollable sea,
During his narration of the tragic ordeal, his voice resonates with an attitude of acceptance and overcoming. Pi realizes he was visited by the strangest sensations and thoughts as a castaway. Pi comes to a conclusion on unfixed things in natural phenomenons. Pi’s thoroughly resolute state is demonstrated in his actions at the end of his interrogation. He states, “I guess I’ll go back to Canada”.
This alternate ending plays a key role in understanding how to view the novel through Freudian lenses. Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis clarifies many troubling issues raised in the novel Life of Pi. Martel’s novel is about the journey of a young man being forced to test his limits in order to survive the unthinkable predicament of being lost at sea alongside an adult Bengal tiger. Life of Pi starts out by introducing an anonymous author on a quest to find his next big story and goes to a man by the name of Piscine Molitor Patel who supposedly has a story worth hearing. Patel begins his story talking about his childhood and the main events that shaped him such as his family’s zoo, the constant curiosity in religion he sought as a young boy and also how he got his nickname Pi.
Through Islamic beliefs, Pi is able to find companionship with Richard Parker, a Royal Bengal tiger. Richard Parker displays that Pi does not stand alone in the position he finds himself in. Instead of going completely insane having nobody human present, Pi’s mind always remains occupied finding means of survival not only for himself, but for Richard Parker as well.
His belief was what kept him grounded in his time of despair and hopelessness, helping him to push through and continue to survive. While on the lifeboat while Pi did sometimes put his faith and beliefs on the backburner, he did always come back to them. Such as when his food began to run out he had to kill a fish. The first time he killed a fish he was in a state of hysteria. His emotions ran rampant, not only having to kill a living thing but eat it as well did not come easily to the vegetarian Pi. He said, “I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It’s a terrible burden to carry” (183). However, as time went on and the boy became more desperate, he killed easily and clinically, without hesitation and only thinking of his survival. He says, “I stuck finger into eyes, jammed hands into gills, crushed soft stomachs with knees, bit tails with my teeth--I did whatever necessary to hold a fish down until I could reach for the hatchet to chop its head off” (195). Even though at times Pi had to give up some of his beliefs to survive at the time, he never truly gave up. He always came back to
Imagination played a large role behind the scenes in the book Life of Pi. “This was the terrible cost of Richard Parker” As the reader, this passage makes you think that Richard Parker was a burden for Pi, that there was nothing positive that came from this tremendous creature. Richard Parker was more than just an idea that Pi thought up, Richard Parker was Pi’s Conscience/himself. The first line of this passage represents imagination, since Richard Parker is Pi’s imagination it would translate to this was the terrible cost of my imagination. When Pi witnesses Richard Parker attack the cannibal he says “Something in me died then that has never come back to life” This has a more spiritual meaning than a literal meaning in the way Pi says it. This means that when he “imagines” this man being killed this shows how cruel life can be even when he looks to god for answers. The reason that Richard Parker is Pi’s imagination is because during the course of this book Richard Parker mimicked exactly what Pi did. For example the moment that they bot...
The projection of Richard Parker helps Pi to be aware of this current situation, which was him being stranded in the ocean on a lifeboat in comparison to his beliefs in his religions. His fear towards Richard Parker was one of the reasons of his survival. Pi says, “Fear and reason fought over answer. Fear said yes. He was a fierce, 450-pound carnivore. Each of his claws was sharp as a knife” (Martel 108). Pi describes Richard Parker as an extremely dangerous, fearful, and vicious predator. This causes Pi keep aware because he is on a boat with a deadly carnivore. He tries to keep awake at night while being on the lifeboat with Richard Parker from the fear of being attacked and eaten by the Bengal tiger. However, since Richard Parker is Pi’s id, it was actually him keeping himself aware and alive. Pi states, “If I still had the will to live, it was thanks to Richard Parker. He kept me from thinking too much about my family and my tragic circumstances” (Martel 164). This shows how Richard Parker occupies Pi’s mind and influences his thoughts about the tragic incident that has happened. The will to live for Pi is no longer his family, but Richard Parker, his id. Richard Parker taught Pi how to survive based on his instincts an...