Many people may say that the key component to survival is to experience loss. After experiencing loss and concluding with survival, people may change to different people with different personalities. “And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But, one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in.”-Haruki Murakami. This quote relates to the two different short stories, Story of Keesh and Life of Pi, written by two different authors, Jack London and Yann Martel. In the short story, Story of Keesh, the protagonist, Keesh, lost his father, who was a very skilled hunter, and after …show more content…
In the short story, Story of Keesh, Keesh experiences the loss of his father, a ferocious hunter. According to the story, it states, “The father of Keesh had been a very brave man, but he had met his death in a time of famine when he sought to save the lives of his people by taking the life of a great polar bear. In his eagerness, he came to close grapples with the bear, and his bones were crushed; but the bear had much meat on him and the people were saved.” This explains that Keesh experienced loss of his father, one of the bravest hunter, by trying to take the life of a polar bear to save the life of his people. In similarity, in the short story the Life of Pi, Pi loses his whole family from the shipwreck. For example, it states, “I looked about for my family, for survivors, for another lifeboat, for anything that might bring me hope. There was nothing.” The purpose of this is that Pi was searching for anyone that survived or even another lifeboat that was around, but instead, he saw nothing but the ocean, and that means that no one survived except him. Therefore, both of the main characters experience loss. (London, 61, Martel,
To inaugurate, it is lucid that Louie from Unbroken and Pi from Life of Pi share reflecting qualities in their mental state. For example, in the text Unbroken, it states,”His vibrant body had shrunken until only the bones remained, draped in yellow skin, crawling with parasites. All I see, he thought, is a dead body breathing.” This shows that even though Louie is in a very unfortunate situation and tends to lose hope and confidence, that very element of his mental state is what pushes him to strive to live and continue with his life. Likewise, in Life of Pi, it similarly states, “ You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result, I perked up and felt much better.”. This coherently indicates how along
I used the picture of the two boys leaning on each other because it is designed to be like Salva and Marial trusting and helping each other. It also has salva with a determined face, because throughout the entire story is determined to survive. Salva’s determination to survive is shown in places such as when she has the swim across the Gilo river which is contaminated with numerous crocodiles, and when she had to power through her fatigue when she had to keep up with her group even when her feet have given up on her, and she had no energy left. Marial is shown, because he was significant to Salva and his death initially made salva feel fainthearted and perturbed, but it ended up empowered Salva to continue to trek through Southern Sudan. This
The mind is divided into three parts, the id, the ego, and the superego. The part of the mind which is visible for all to see is the superego and the ego. Both the ego and the superego are rational parts of the mind. The id is said to be the only part of the mind that we are born with. Martel used the iceberg theory to depict the real survival struggle Pi had to go through. “Tears flowing down my cheeks, I egged myself on until I heard a cracking sound and I no longer felt any life fighting in my hands. I pulled back the folds of the blanket. The flying fish was dead. It was split open and bloody on one side of its head, at the level of the gills.” (231) In this moment it is Pi’s superego, his conscience fighting his id. His superego is wanting so badly not to kill an innocent animal, but his id is saying you need to do this to survive. This is the point where Pi’s superego is being used less and less until it is not used whatsoever. Pi’s ego is reality, it is rational thinking and his true personality. “I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.” (212) The last part of
How do people change in times of crisis and tragedy? In the novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, Victor learns a lesson in thinking before acting. Before creating the monster, he only cares about his studies and is relatively happy. After his creation, his studies become his phobia and his creation (which, while constructing him, used to be his love) became his tormentor. In the end, he learns his lesson and stops himself before committing the same mistake again. In creating life, one learns to live life a little wiser.
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,
Choices play a prominent role in ensuring comfort and happiness in life. People make choices, which ultimately shape their lives. In Yann Martel’s The Life of Pi, the main character, Pi Patel is forced to make choices, which go against his morals, but ultimately keep him alive. This becomes clear when Pi chooses to change his person by eating meat. Pi then chooses to eliminate all personal boundaries, due to his incredible will to survive. Finally, he chooses to view all of the people on the life boat as animals in order to cope with the psychological distress of being lost at sea. When faced with choices, Pi puts all morals behind him to survive.
Society is known to put everyone and everything into roles that, if or when the role assigned is changed, all hell breaks loose. Through Freud’s theory, he explains the behaviors that are associated with the id, the ego, and the superego. Being that Pi was someone who had been relatively well-off prior to embarking on his trip to Canada and then thrown into a new scenario that involves him becoming a starving survivor of a boat wreck stuck in a boat with a tiger that is threatening to eat him, it can be seen that Freud’s theory is displayed. When observing the events that take place throughout Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, it is observable that he creates an impressive relationship between Freud’s theory of the id, ego, and superego and Pi’s mental facade while using a paradox within the specific animals, as well as his strive for survival.
A quick glance at Life of Pi and a reader may take away the idea that it is an easy read and a novel full of imagination, but take a Freudian view on the work and it transforms into a representation of the human psyche. Martel’s novel takes the reader on a journey with Pi as he struggles for his own survival. Pi experiences a breakdown of each component that makes up ones personality according to Freud throughout the novel. One by one id, ego and super ego both express a huge factor in Pi’s choices and emotions throughout his story. The readers are also introduced to an alternate ending to choose from. 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.
Despite negative views from the society, isolation reveals and strengthens the good in an individual as they are not manipulated from their surroundings. As shown in Life of Pi, where the main character’s alienation has an impact on the nature of humankind, his identity and morality. First of all, human beings are capable of adapting to any changes, which is why Pi has become a better survivor and has overcome many difficulties when he was isolated on the lifeboat. Furthermore, a person can discover their true identity when faced with hardship. Pi’s true self is revealed as he remained faithful to God till the end. Lastly, when alienated, Pi is forced to choose between good or evil in order to stay alive, and he chooses to take care of Richard
In drastic situations, human psychology uses coping mechanisms to help them through it. In the novel, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Pi’s coping mechanism is his religions and his projection of Richard Parker. Martel’s Life of Pi shows how the projection of Richard Parker played a greater role in keeping Pi alive in comparison to his beliefs in his religions. During the period in which Pi was stranded on the lifeboat, Richard Parker kept Pi aware, helped Pi make the right decisions, and was Pi’s sub-consciousness.
Thesis: Pi’s journey is characterized better in the movie because it gets rid of excess information to get the story line along, has major effects to visually represent the story, and finishes with a definite conclusion.
Have you ever experienced something so unbelievable and horrifying that you can’t even talk about it? In Life of Pi by Yann Martel the protagonist Pi faces this situation head on. After an unexpected shipwreck, he is left alone, or so we think, to survive with zoo animals, including a ferocious tiger. Once Pi finds land, he is interrogated by two Japanese men where, after some coercing, he tells the real story; The one with all the gory details. It is revealed that he was too scared and shocked to tell the real account first which clearly represents how sometimes illusion is easier to grasp than reality.
Piscine Molitor Patel, this name carries great significance throughout the novel Life Of Pi. Associations of Pi 's name with water is very clear to the reader. Pi was named after a pool in Paris, Piscine Molitor, Mr. Adirubasamy 's favourite pool, Mr. Adirubasamy also taught Pi how to swim. He then became a skilful swimmer. I believe that the author has incorporated this connection to make Pi 's story of the shipwreck seem more realistic, because Pi is a good swimmer, then he has a skill to aid him in living on an ocean. This is used to enhance the authors credibility and make the fantasized story feel more realistic. Another thing that is interesting about the name Pi, is that it is a very unusual name, we don 't regularly see people with
Intercultural communication, as defined in the text is, “the interactions that occur between people whose cultures are so different that the communication between them is altered” (Verderber, Macgeorge). This is used in our daily lives, and sometimes without us even noticing that we are surrounded by several different cultures. The theme of this paper is to show how interpersonal concepts where used in Life of Pi. There are a number of concepts that are used in the chapter this include; Cultural Identity, social class, values, low-context culture, high-context culture, individualistic culture.
I have always been to asking myself what is meaning of life? or what I supposed to do ? or what I have to achieve? . Meaning of life what 's you have been given? what you have given by different kind of human? Or what I believe or what I do not believe in life .Everybody have Meaning of life it depends between person to person, I found myself when I was young because my parents always talk about experience in their life.Throughout my entire life ,I have wondered about the significance meaning of life that has beneficial for the people, because the life is beginning odds and ending odds .Even though struggle of life, I believe meaning of life are ,regional ,ambition, participate ,achievement ,and happiness .Due to this, I