Life Of Pi Isolation Essay

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Intro – The impact of isolation on an individual and their resulting response is examined throughout two texts, John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. The two authors communicate the significant negative responses the characters have to their specific isolation in both similar and different manners. COME BACK TO THIS!!!!!!! Boyne and Martel effectively communicate a similar initial negative emotional response by the main characters due to the isolation experienced when they are forced to move away from the comfort and safety of their own home. When Bruno moved to ‘Out-with,’ which was his naïve and childish perception of the Jewish concentration camp, Auschwitz, he ‘had a pain in his stomach and could feel …show more content…

In The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Bruno and Shmuel meet each other and develop a friendship, which removes Bruno’s isolation and enables a friendship that is deeper and more meaningful to Bruno. The boys stick together through thick and thin. An example of this is in Chapter 15 of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, when Bruno denies that he knows Shmuel when asked by Lieutenant Kotler. Shmuel forgives him almost immediately, and the boys become friends again with and share a ‘handshake.’ It was ‘the first time they had ever touched’. In Patel’s text, Life of Pi, Pi is forced to build a trusting relationship with Richard Parker, an adult Bengal tiger. If Richard Parker didn’t trust Pi, he could have easily killed him. When Pi was stuck on the boat with Richard Parker, he realised that it was ‘Richard Parker who calmed [me] down.’ The irony of this is evident because he was originally petrified of the tiger. Martel uses the relationship that Pi builds with Richard Parker to emphasize that building an unlikely relationship can lessen or remove isolation. The significance of the respective relationships and how they lessen or remove isolation is evident to the reader and a greater appreciation for their personal relationships is

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