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Life

Piof

A Book Review

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A brie glimpse into

the story

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Meet the curious cast

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ake a little peek o India

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4N983137983154983154983137983156983151983154Te voice o the story

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See the story in a different lens

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Valuable lie lessons

offered by the story

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Te storyrsquos

personality

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Te storyrsquos take on reality

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and the film

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How the story mirrors our lie

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on-screen sibling

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Final thoughts

on the story

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literature review

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Contents

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A983154983156 C983154983141983140983145983156983155Credits or the various art pieces

used in this literature review

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PLOT

Te story begins by divinginto how the tale came into

existence the Author scoursthrough the exotic lands oIndia or a rare inspiration ora new book Exasperated by thedeath o an idea and dwindlingunds he grew ever more ex-hausted but restless

Ten while having breakast ina small town a riendly nativecame up to him and polite

conversation ensued Te nativeoffered him a story that couldmake him believe in God Sus-picious o such a daring wagerthe Author asked i he was on areligious mission But the nativedenied the claim leading himto meet Piscine Molitor Patelinstead

Meet Piscine Molitor Patel anIndian who starts his lie inPondicherrymdasha quaint seasidetown with a pinch o France Hegrew up amongst the companyo animals in his atherrsquos zooBut tumultuous times loomedso Pirsquos ather decided to sell the

animals and move to CanadaTey board simtsum and setsailed

Pi awoke in the middle o nightto a aint noise A vicious stormhammered the ship so he decid-ed to experience all its strength

and awe Pi set out by himselafer ailing to bring his brotheralong or his little adventure Hestumbled across the deck amidstthe battering winds and rainTen alarms blared and the shipstarted to sink Shocked intomotion he rushed back to hisquarters only to find it alreadysubmerged He went back on

deck to even more chaos asescaped animals was thrashingabout in the storm Amidst allthe conusion the shiprsquos crewthrew him on the lieboat alongwith a zebra that jumped on itcausing the lieboat to breakree

He watched helplessly as theship perished along with hisentire amily and the uture thatthey were about to have As thewaves butchered the lieboathe saved Richard Parker onlyto realize his mistake later Hehad to deal with another car-nivore aboard a hyena But hehad other tamer companionsOrange Juice the orang utan anda wounded zebra

Stranded in the vastness o thePacific Ocean he used all pos-sible means to survive On thelieboat the instincts o surviv-al took over and nature tookits course the hyena brutallyattacked the zebra and the orangutan and Richard Parker tookaway the lie o the hyena Teocean was ruthless and unor-giving varying rom hot hellishdays to gale orce winds andrain

Pi struggled tending to Rich-ard Parker and himsel But

strangely by keeping the tigeralive he was keeping himselalive He trained Richard Parkerthrough trial and error to getrations rom the lieboat Onlya single ship passed them but itailed to take notice o the strug-gling survivors

He drifs between delirium and

hope then stumbled upon therarest miracles o nature a float-ing island It was alive with algaeand Meerkats Tere was a ewdays o total bliss ree o starva-tion and thirst Ten Pi discov-ered the island was carnivorousand realized remaining on theisland doesnrsquot guaranteesurvival

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He reached the coast o Mexico afer a death-deying227 days on the Pacific Ocean Barely any strengthlef in him he saw Richard Parker dive into the junglewithout leaving a single goodbye to commemoratetheir success In the hospital in the town o omatlanhe recuperated though not rom his heartbreak

wo officials rom the Japanese Ministry o ransport

asked him to recount his story to settle some ques-tions regarding the shipwreck they ound themselvesdumbounded Plagued by disbelie rom Pirsquos storythey asked or a more realistic story Pi switched theanimals on the lieboat to the people aboard simtsumwhich made the story appear closer to reality In theend the officials preerred the story with the animals

Pi continued his migration to Canada and settleddown in oronto He went to high school there anddecided to take a Bachelorrsquos degree with two majorsHe studied zoology and religious studies With hisstudies he recovered rom the traumatic experiencenow raising a amily o two children and a wie

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C HARACTERS

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Certainly a peculiar child he was named afer a swimming pool hisatherrsquos close riend Francis Adirubasamy visited in Paris He was

always curious about the world around him once he even decidedto eed Richard Parker with some meat by his bare hands Since hischildhood he devoutly adhered to three religions Hinduism Chris-tianity and Islam to his atherrsquos dismay and brotherrsquos amusement

As his name resembles one o our most requent ways o relievingourselves his childhood was marred with bullying in the schoolplayground Resourceul and smart he associated himsel withthe peculiar number Pi to try and rid himsel o ridicule when heswitched school It was useul to some extent but sometimes eventhe teachers made mistakes

His resourceulness can also be seen in his days on the sea he built araf to distance himsel and the carnivores using only what he couldfind on the lieboat and scraped out survival or a Bengal tiger andhimsel rom the clutches o death

His mental strength abounds although sometimes wavering duringthe ordeal Nonetheless his will to survive and his persistent aithendures amidst all the storms and obstacles thrown mercilessly athim by the Pacific Ocean

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Last but not least therersquos Pirsquos elder brother Ravi He preers sportsover schoolwork and is one o the popular ones in school He ofenteases Pi over his devotion to the three religions he has

Pirsquos ather Santosh Patel is a stern but caring ather He constantlyworries about Pirsquos curious antics His was bedridden with polio earlyin his lie but was saved by Western medicine With that he grewsceptical about religion and chose to believe in rationality instead othe Gods in the Hindu religion

His mother Gita Patel is a good mother that attempts to under-stand the idea o Pi having three religions A protective mother thatlooked afer Pi sometimes rom his husbandrsquos more serious parent-

ing techniques

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Literally the biggest character in the story she is an ominous being

that ofen switches personality rom lethally threatening all thepassengers aboard the lieboat with gigantic waves and lightning tocreating magnificent golden sunsets i theyrsquore lucky enough to be inher good graces Credit definitely has to be given to her or provid-ing sustenance or Pi and Richard Parker

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Francis is a close riend o the Patel amily A champion swimmerhe did his best to teach swimming to the Patel amily but only man-aged to capture Pirsquos interest He was the one who unintentionallynamed Pi as he told Santosh o the magnificent Parisian swimmingpool

Pirsquos eline companionrsquos curious name was due to a clerical errorhis true name was Tirsty but the other name stuck A hunter theactual Richard Parker ound him as a cub with his mother as hewas hunting or a panther Te cub rushed to drink in the river aferbeing picked up by the hunter hence the name Tirsty

Richard Parker is a Bengal tiger raised by the zookeepers in Pondi-cherry Zoo He was the one who kept Pi alive in the Pacific Oceanalbeit paradoxically

He was somewhat domesticated and weakened as he was poundedby hunger intense sunlight and storms In the end he didnrsquot lookback at the eeble human that ed him unceremoniously leavinghim afer leaping into the tropical jungle in Mexico

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NARRATOR Te story is mainly narrated by Pi himsel Although there are aew chapters in which the Author is narrating the story o his ate-ul meeting with Pi When Pi narrates the story o his entire liehe invites you into it allowing an almost personal and intimatelook into his lie

Just afer simtsum sank he takes on a darker tone as he grappleswith the horrible truth that his amily is lost like any traumatizedsurvivor o a shipwreck would and a earul tone when he wit-nessed the hyena attacking the zebra and the orang utan

Afer getting used to the elements Pi narrates his days adrif inthe Pacific Ocean in manner that sometimes can be quite humor-ous and anecdotal as he learns survival at the mercy o the PacificOcean and a Royal Bengal tiger

Pirsquos breezy and optimistic tone allows readers to easily sink into

the story It captures the interest o the attention o the reader in analmost subconscious way enticing the rantic flipping o pages justto discover all the wonders in his almost impossible tale o survivalwithout eeling too emotionally drained

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ANALOGIES

Te most powerul analogy is the floating island It represents themyriad o religions that we currently have Te trees on the island

represents the leaders o religions while the Meerkats the ollow-ers As it preys at night it shows that religion can disjoint us romreality i wersquore not too careul with it However religion does offersolace during times o despair it can be seen as it offers shelter andsustenance or him and Richard Parker

Another analogy is the lieboat which represents our journeythrough lie and its various passengers our critics in lie Tehyena and Richard Parker creates chaos on the lieboat which isanalogous to how people can ofen bring us down Pi also had toweather the elements which shows that that we have to weather

challenges in lie as well

Te two Japanese officials can be seen as the audience themselvesAs the two attempt to make sense o Pirsquos preposterous story theaudience are also choosing which story to believe the one with theanimals or the one without

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C ENTRAL T HEMES

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Te novel deals with religionSometimes it divides us as wefight over the differences o oth-ers When the story tells o the

bickering between the imampriest and the Hindu pandit it shows how different variousreligions can be and yet unveilsall the similarities they haveIt seems trivial to ocus on thenegative traits o other religionswhen they are merely justdifferent rather than negativeWe are asked to at least be

open-minded to other religionbecause we all have our ownGods to guide us

Te book in a sense is a ser-mon a scripture o a verymodern origin As Pi avidlyollows the three religions hisspirituality grew and evolvedwhich became instrumental tohis survival across the Pacific

Ocean Itrsquos littered throughoutthe story a God (or Gods) with-in ourselves helps us grow andmature offering warmth amidstour sometimes chaotic lives

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either drafed up by ourselves orthrown at us by lie the mo-ment it suraces Resilience ismore than just a mere skill to besharpened or a rare talent givento a gifed ew it is a way o lienot a way to deal with lie

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Early on in the book Pi quietlydeclares

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A call that reaches out to us aswe sometimes wallow trappedin excuses ears and restrictionsthat lie throws at us relentlesslyIt is a call to us to rise up romthe challenges o lie that makes

us stronger and make lie justthat more interesting

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Although itrsquos barely the smart-est move in lie still it is therare eats o kindness that kept

humanity alive throughoutcenturies o tragedies As Pisacrifices a portion o his rationsto Richard Parker he builds aconnection with him A bondthough it ended abruptly wasone o the ew things that stavedoff death or both o them

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Martel handles the plot in a very smooth light-hearted way Reading thebook is akin to a day o smooth sailing accompanied by gorgeous weatherTough there are the more suspenseul and darker chapters as well Mar-telrsquos writing allows readers to immerse into the dramatic highs and lows oPirsquos adventure without eeling too exhausted

Martel almost entirely uses proper and simple English except or the

names o the various Indian ood and Hindu Gods which thankully isusually accompanied with a brie explanation Te absence o racial orcultural slangs allows the reader to relate with the story easily and quicklywithout resorting to Google the various obscure names or terms

Martelrsquos writing can be ruminative and philosophical the story is dottedwith plenty o inspiring quotes that could last or more than a lietimeand here are some that stood out

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Representationof Reality

Te story plays with both the whimsicality o fiction and theseriousness o reality Everything rom Pirsquos childhood and liein Pondicherry to the practices o the three religion Pi ollowsclosely mirrors our reality even the scenic landscape o Munnarthat Pi visited during a amily vacation and the once elegant(now in the midst o resuscitation) Parisian swimming pool thatPi was named afer Piscine Molitor actually exist

However how ofen is that an Indian boy is actually namedafer a swimming pool in Paris and having to deal with a Bengal

tiger in middle o the Pacific Ocean or months on end Teseand other extremely circumstantial details are barely possibleand yet Martel was able to present them naturally By addingsubtle flavours and spices he turns an extraordinary story to aseemingly ordinary but nonetheless interesting one

World ViewTe story revels in a world that is ull o endless wonders andpossible impossibilities From living briefly on a carnivorousisland that seeps out acid to catch its prey rom the ocean and

its ground to the magnificence o a Bengal tiger to surviving vicious storms with insufficient rations the story depicts thewondrous brilliance o Mother Nature It shows the humanrsquosinstinctual thirst o overcoming insurmountable odds duringsurvival or hardships o lie

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F ILM ADAPTATION

Te film adaptation o the noveldebuted on November 2012instantly garnering widespread

acclaim rom critics and audi-ences It was directed by re-nowned film director Ang Leewith the adapted screenplay byDavid Magee

Suraj Sharmarsquos immense talentshown through despite beinga total newcomer He sin-gle-handedly bore the weighto the majority o the filmrsquosproduction Under Ang Leersquoswatchul guidance he embod-ied the title character with aperormance that wowed criticsOther talented cast membersinclude Irran Khan Rae SpallGeacuterard Depardieu abu andAdil Hussain

O course like most adapta-

tions the film is added with apinch o quintessential Hol-lywood magic in the ormo striking visual effects andemotionally charged scenes andtheme music which makes thestory even more powerul How-ever the film lost some o Mar-telrsquos lighter touch But with Leersquosdirection the film truly brought

out the magic and imagery othe original without allowingthe audience to compare it withthe original

Te cinematography is superb

and the visual effects a hugebulk o the film is stunninglyconvincing Especially the visu-al effects on the sea itrsquos depictedas a living breathing entity withits own set o emotions ratherthan just a prop on the set Itshows both the beautiully calmside and dangerously uriousside oceans have that we donrsquot

normally encounter

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resoundingly antastic homageto the original book successul-ly condensing the essence o theoriginal into a two-hour visualmasterpiece while also divingthe audience into the deepermeanings o lie Itrsquos very rareor a film adaptation to pull offmirroring the original withoutchanging much o the original

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As with most film adaptationsgo they are bound to be di-erent rom the original mate-rial Life of Pi is no exception

though the differences withinthe film are subtle enough tohave little impact on the storybut noticeable enough

Te authorrsquos note and most oPirsquos explanation on zoology hasbeen lef out Itrsquos a logical deci-sion as people donrsquot really needto know how sloths and other

animals behave in the zoo andout in the wild to ully under-stand the plot Adding themwould just cause a two-hourlong film to eel even lengthierthan it should be

Te addition o Anandi Pirsquosgirlriend in Pondicherry beorehe migrated is one o the moreobvious but significant differ-

ences in the film It adds anemotional depth to his adoles-cence beore he migratedto Canada and emphasizesthe pain o leaving everythingbehind in India as they leave insearch or a supposedly betteruture

Te scenes with the French cookand the Buddhist were absentrom the book Adding themallows the audience to recognise

the story in which there wasa switch between the animalsand actual people on the simt-sum and find the connectionbetween the people and theanimals that corresponded withtheir personalities

A difference can also be seen inthe scene where the oil tanker

appeared as well In the bookthe oil tanker is right in ront oPi and almost crashes into himwhich is quite dramatic How-ever the oil tanker passes Pi inthe horizon in the film subtlyemphasizing the fleetingness ohope during absolute adversity

Tere is also a part where Piseems to have lost his sanityas he and Richard Parker wentblind Pi also met a ellow sur-

vivor on the sea which couldbe a hallucination Tis sceneshouldnrsquot have been omittedrom the film it could add alittle more flavour to Pirsquos jour-ney on the silver screen as itrsquosprobably be true or anyone outon the sea or seven months

Te film also excluded the many

gory and gruelling parts o thebook Pi killing turtles anddrink their blood isnrsquot exactly agood shot However this san-itizes the story or people whohavenrsquot read the book yetshielding them rom the darkerrealities o surviving the harshconditions o the sea

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Conclusion Life of Pi is definitely a rare marvel that canprooundly move onersquos perspective on lie Itspowerul story o a boy and a Bengal tiger setagainst the ever-changing Pacific Ocean shedslight on the things in lie that we ofen ignoreIt asks us to reflect on ourselves our lie andour religion and acknowledge their imperec-tions and try to accept and be content withthem despite their imperections

Right at the beginning it unashamedlydeclares a challenge to make you believe inGod It is rare or a book to proess such amonumental dare even beore its story startsit might even deter some rom reading onAlthough in the end it does ulfil its objectivesto some extent but it may have all short to asceptical atheist

Te book is an intriguing cacophony o zoologyphilosophy and theology with a strange dose oadventure and reality It satisfies your readingpleasure while presenting a ew questions youseldom ask yoursel As you delve through thepages to uncover whatrsquos going to happen to Pinext the book slips in a ew words o wisdomthat will let you wonder about the meaning olie both the bookrsquos and yours

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Martel Yann (2001) Life of Pi New York Knop Canada

Christophe Jean-Castille (2012)Te Making of Life of Pi A FilmA Journey Harper Design

GROSS M (2008) Pondicherryrsquos French ConnectionTe New York imes 30th March

MUNOZ M (2012) lsquoLie o PirsquoComparing Ang Leersquos Film With Yann Martelrsquos Novel

Te Daily Beast

21st NovemberAvailable romhttpwwwthedailybeastcomarticles20121121lie-o-pi-comparing-ang-lee-s-film-with-yann-martel-s-novelhtml[Accessed 8th November 2013]

KEEGAN R(2012)James Cameron lsquoLie o Pirsquo lsquobreaks the paradigmrsquoo 3-D movies Los Angeles imes 2nd NovemberAvailable rom

httparticleslatimescom2012nov02entertainmentla-et-mn-james-cameron-lie-pi-3d-20121101[Accessed 12th November 2013]

Sparknotes Editors (2006) SparkNote on Life of Pi [Online]

Available rom httpwwwsparknotescomlitlieopi[Accessed October 30 2013]

Wickman K (2012)Te 32 Differences Between lsquoLife of Pirsquo Book and Movie[Online]Available romhttpwwwfilmcommoviesdifferences-between-lie-o-pi-book-and-movie[Accessed 16th November 2013

BRADSHER K (2003)Pondicherry Journal Te Zoo Is Fiction but It Just Might Spring to LieTe New York imes 20th FebruaryAvailable romhttpwwwnytimescom20030220worldpondicherry-journal-the-zoo-

is-fiction-but-it-just-might-spring-to-liehtml[Accessed 22nd November 2013]

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A brie glimpse into

the story

Pages 1 ndash 2

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Meet the curious cast

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ake a little peek o India

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4N983137983154983154983137983156983151983154Te voice o the story

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See the story in a different lens

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Valuable lie lessons

offered by the story

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Te storyrsquos

personality

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Te storyrsquos take on reality

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D983145983142983142983141983154983141983150983139983141983155Comparing the book

and the film

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How the story mirrors our lie

Page 11

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on-screen sibling

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Final thoughts

on the story

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13R983141983142983141983154983141983150983139983141983155All the materials used in this

literature review

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Contents

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A983154983156 C983154983141983140983145983156983155Credits or the various art pieces

used in this literature review

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PLOT

Te story begins by divinginto how the tale came into

existence the Author scoursthrough the exotic lands oIndia or a rare inspiration ora new book Exasperated by thedeath o an idea and dwindlingunds he grew ever more ex-hausted but restless

Ten while having breakast ina small town a riendly nativecame up to him and polite

conversation ensued Te nativeoffered him a story that couldmake him believe in God Sus-picious o such a daring wagerthe Author asked i he was on areligious mission But the nativedenied the claim leading himto meet Piscine Molitor Patelinstead

Meet Piscine Molitor Patel anIndian who starts his lie inPondicherrymdasha quaint seasidetown with a pinch o France Hegrew up amongst the companyo animals in his atherrsquos zooBut tumultuous times loomedso Pirsquos ather decided to sell the

animals and move to CanadaTey board simtsum and setsailed

Pi awoke in the middle o nightto a aint noise A vicious stormhammered the ship so he decid-ed to experience all its strength

and awe Pi set out by himselafer ailing to bring his brotheralong or his little adventure Hestumbled across the deck amidstthe battering winds and rainTen alarms blared and the shipstarted to sink Shocked intomotion he rushed back to hisquarters only to find it alreadysubmerged He went back on

deck to even more chaos asescaped animals was thrashingabout in the storm Amidst allthe conusion the shiprsquos crewthrew him on the lieboat alongwith a zebra that jumped on itcausing the lieboat to breakree

He watched helplessly as theship perished along with hisentire amily and the uture thatthey were about to have As thewaves butchered the lieboathe saved Richard Parker onlyto realize his mistake later Hehad to deal with another car-nivore aboard a hyena But hehad other tamer companionsOrange Juice the orang utan anda wounded zebra

Stranded in the vastness o thePacific Ocean he used all pos-sible means to survive On thelieboat the instincts o surviv-al took over and nature tookits course the hyena brutallyattacked the zebra and the orangutan and Richard Parker tookaway the lie o the hyena Teocean was ruthless and unor-giving varying rom hot hellishdays to gale orce winds andrain

Pi struggled tending to Rich-ard Parker and himsel But

strangely by keeping the tigeralive he was keeping himselalive He trained Richard Parkerthrough trial and error to getrations rom the lieboat Onlya single ship passed them but itailed to take notice o the strug-gling survivors

He drifs between delirium and

hope then stumbled upon therarest miracles o nature a float-ing island It was alive with algaeand Meerkats Tere was a ewdays o total bliss ree o starva-tion and thirst Ten Pi discov-ered the island was carnivorousand realized remaining on theisland doesnrsquot guaranteesurvival

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He reached the coast o Mexico afer a death-deying227 days on the Pacific Ocean Barely any strengthlef in him he saw Richard Parker dive into the junglewithout leaving a single goodbye to commemoratetheir success In the hospital in the town o omatlanhe recuperated though not rom his heartbreak

wo officials rom the Japanese Ministry o ransport

asked him to recount his story to settle some ques-tions regarding the shipwreck they ound themselvesdumbounded Plagued by disbelie rom Pirsquos storythey asked or a more realistic story Pi switched theanimals on the lieboat to the people aboard simtsumwhich made the story appear closer to reality In theend the officials preerred the story with the animals

Pi continued his migration to Canada and settleddown in oronto He went to high school there anddecided to take a Bachelorrsquos degree with two majorsHe studied zoology and religious studies With hisstudies he recovered rom the traumatic experiencenow raising a amily o two children and a wie

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C HARACTERS

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Certainly a peculiar child he was named afer a swimming pool hisatherrsquos close riend Francis Adirubasamy visited in Paris He was

always curious about the world around him once he even decidedto eed Richard Parker with some meat by his bare hands Since hischildhood he devoutly adhered to three religions Hinduism Chris-tianity and Islam to his atherrsquos dismay and brotherrsquos amusement

As his name resembles one o our most requent ways o relievingourselves his childhood was marred with bullying in the schoolplayground Resourceul and smart he associated himsel withthe peculiar number Pi to try and rid himsel o ridicule when heswitched school It was useul to some extent but sometimes eventhe teachers made mistakes

His resourceulness can also be seen in his days on the sea he built araf to distance himsel and the carnivores using only what he couldfind on the lieboat and scraped out survival or a Bengal tiger andhimsel rom the clutches o death

His mental strength abounds although sometimes wavering duringthe ordeal Nonetheless his will to survive and his persistent aithendures amidst all the storms and obstacles thrown mercilessly athim by the Pacific Ocean

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Last but not least therersquos Pirsquos elder brother Ravi He preers sportsover schoolwork and is one o the popular ones in school He ofenteases Pi over his devotion to the three religions he has

Pirsquos ather Santosh Patel is a stern but caring ather He constantlyworries about Pirsquos curious antics His was bedridden with polio earlyin his lie but was saved by Western medicine With that he grewsceptical about religion and chose to believe in rationality instead othe Gods in the Hindu religion

His mother Gita Patel is a good mother that attempts to under-stand the idea o Pi having three religions A protective mother thatlooked afer Pi sometimes rom his husbandrsquos more serious parent-

ing techniques

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Literally the biggest character in the story she is an ominous being

that ofen switches personality rom lethally threatening all thepassengers aboard the lieboat with gigantic waves and lightning tocreating magnificent golden sunsets i theyrsquore lucky enough to be inher good graces Credit definitely has to be given to her or provid-ing sustenance or Pi and Richard Parker

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Francis is a close riend o the Patel amily A champion swimmerhe did his best to teach swimming to the Patel amily but only man-aged to capture Pirsquos interest He was the one who unintentionallynamed Pi as he told Santosh o the magnificent Parisian swimmingpool

Pirsquos eline companionrsquos curious name was due to a clerical errorhis true name was Tirsty but the other name stuck A hunter theactual Richard Parker ound him as a cub with his mother as hewas hunting or a panther Te cub rushed to drink in the river aferbeing picked up by the hunter hence the name Tirsty

Richard Parker is a Bengal tiger raised by the zookeepers in Pondi-cherry Zoo He was the one who kept Pi alive in the Pacific Oceanalbeit paradoxically

He was somewhat domesticated and weakened as he was poundedby hunger intense sunlight and storms In the end he didnrsquot lookback at the eeble human that ed him unceremoniously leavinghim afer leaping into the tropical jungle in Mexico

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NARRATOR Te story is mainly narrated by Pi himsel Although there are aew chapters in which the Author is narrating the story o his ate-ul meeting with Pi When Pi narrates the story o his entire liehe invites you into it allowing an almost personal and intimatelook into his lie

Just afer simtsum sank he takes on a darker tone as he grappleswith the horrible truth that his amily is lost like any traumatizedsurvivor o a shipwreck would and a earul tone when he wit-nessed the hyena attacking the zebra and the orang utan

Afer getting used to the elements Pi narrates his days adrif inthe Pacific Ocean in manner that sometimes can be quite humor-ous and anecdotal as he learns survival at the mercy o the PacificOcean and a Royal Bengal tiger

Pirsquos breezy and optimistic tone allows readers to easily sink into

the story It captures the interest o the attention o the reader in analmost subconscious way enticing the rantic flipping o pages justto discover all the wonders in his almost impossible tale o survivalwithout eeling too emotionally drained

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ANALOGIES

Te most powerul analogy is the floating island It represents themyriad o religions that we currently have Te trees on the island

represents the leaders o religions while the Meerkats the ollow-ers As it preys at night it shows that religion can disjoint us romreality i wersquore not too careul with it However religion does offersolace during times o despair it can be seen as it offers shelter andsustenance or him and Richard Parker

Another analogy is the lieboat which represents our journeythrough lie and its various passengers our critics in lie Tehyena and Richard Parker creates chaos on the lieboat which isanalogous to how people can ofen bring us down Pi also had toweather the elements which shows that that we have to weather

challenges in lie as well

Te two Japanese officials can be seen as the audience themselvesAs the two attempt to make sense o Pirsquos preposterous story theaudience are also choosing which story to believe the one with theanimals or the one without

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C ENTRAL T HEMES

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Te novel deals with religionSometimes it divides us as wefight over the differences o oth-ers When the story tells o the

bickering between the imampriest and the Hindu pandit it shows how different variousreligions can be and yet unveilsall the similarities they haveIt seems trivial to ocus on thenegative traits o other religionswhen they are merely justdifferent rather than negativeWe are asked to at least be

open-minded to other religionbecause we all have our ownGods to guide us

Te book in a sense is a ser-mon a scripture o a verymodern origin As Pi avidlyollows the three religions hisspirituality grew and evolvedwhich became instrumental tohis survival across the Pacific

Ocean Itrsquos littered throughoutthe story a God (or Gods) with-in ourselves helps us grow andmature offering warmth amidstour sometimes chaotic lives

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either drafed up by ourselves orthrown at us by lie the mo-ment it suraces Resilience ismore than just a mere skill to besharpened or a rare talent givento a gifed ew it is a way o lienot a way to deal with lie

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Early on in the book Pi quietlydeclares

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A call that reaches out to us aswe sometimes wallow trappedin excuses ears and restrictionsthat lie throws at us relentlesslyIt is a call to us to rise up romthe challenges o lie that makes

us stronger and make lie justthat more interesting

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Although itrsquos barely the smart-est move in lie still it is therare eats o kindness that kept

humanity alive throughoutcenturies o tragedies As Pisacrifices a portion o his rationsto Richard Parker he builds aconnection with him A bondthough it ended abruptly wasone o the ew things that stavedoff death or both o them

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Martel handles the plot in a very smooth light-hearted way Reading thebook is akin to a day o smooth sailing accompanied by gorgeous weatherTough there are the more suspenseul and darker chapters as well Mar-telrsquos writing allows readers to immerse into the dramatic highs and lows oPirsquos adventure without eeling too exhausted

Martel almost entirely uses proper and simple English except or the

names o the various Indian ood and Hindu Gods which thankully isusually accompanied with a brie explanation Te absence o racial orcultural slangs allows the reader to relate with the story easily and quicklywithout resorting to Google the various obscure names or terms

Martelrsquos writing can be ruminative and philosophical the story is dottedwith plenty o inspiring quotes that could last or more than a lietimeand here are some that stood out

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Representationof Reality

Te story plays with both the whimsicality o fiction and theseriousness o reality Everything rom Pirsquos childhood and liein Pondicherry to the practices o the three religion Pi ollowsclosely mirrors our reality even the scenic landscape o Munnarthat Pi visited during a amily vacation and the once elegant(now in the midst o resuscitation) Parisian swimming pool thatPi was named afer Piscine Molitor actually exist

However how ofen is that an Indian boy is actually namedafer a swimming pool in Paris and having to deal with a Bengal

tiger in middle o the Pacific Ocean or months on end Teseand other extremely circumstantial details are barely possibleand yet Martel was able to present them naturally By addingsubtle flavours and spices he turns an extraordinary story to aseemingly ordinary but nonetheless interesting one

World ViewTe story revels in a world that is ull o endless wonders andpossible impossibilities From living briefly on a carnivorousisland that seeps out acid to catch its prey rom the ocean and

its ground to the magnificence o a Bengal tiger to surviving vicious storms with insufficient rations the story depicts thewondrous brilliance o Mother Nature It shows the humanrsquosinstinctual thirst o overcoming insurmountable odds duringsurvival or hardships o lie

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F ILM ADAPTATION

Te film adaptation o the noveldebuted on November 2012instantly garnering widespread

acclaim rom critics and audi-ences It was directed by re-nowned film director Ang Leewith the adapted screenplay byDavid Magee

Suraj Sharmarsquos immense talentshown through despite beinga total newcomer He sin-gle-handedly bore the weighto the majority o the filmrsquosproduction Under Ang Leersquoswatchul guidance he embod-ied the title character with aperormance that wowed criticsOther talented cast membersinclude Irran Khan Rae SpallGeacuterard Depardieu abu andAdil Hussain

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tions the film is added with apinch o quintessential Hol-lywood magic in the ormo striking visual effects andemotionally charged scenes andtheme music which makes thestory even more powerul How-ever the film lost some o Mar-telrsquos lighter touch But with Leersquosdirection the film truly brought

out the magic and imagery othe original without allowingthe audience to compare it withthe original

Te cinematography is superb

and the visual effects a hugebulk o the film is stunninglyconvincing Especially the visu-al effects on the sea itrsquos depictedas a living breathing entity withits own set o emotions ratherthan just a prop on the set Itshows both the beautiully calmside and dangerously uriousside oceans have that we donrsquot

normally encounter

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resoundingly antastic homageto the original book successul-ly condensing the essence o theoriginal into a two-hour visualmasterpiece while also divingthe audience into the deepermeanings o lie Itrsquos very rareor a film adaptation to pull offmirroring the original withoutchanging much o the original

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As with most film adaptationsgo they are bound to be di-erent rom the original mate-rial Life of Pi is no exception

though the differences withinthe film are subtle enough tohave little impact on the storybut noticeable enough

Te authorrsquos note and most oPirsquos explanation on zoology hasbeen lef out Itrsquos a logical deci-sion as people donrsquot really needto know how sloths and other

animals behave in the zoo andout in the wild to ully under-stand the plot Adding themwould just cause a two-hourlong film to eel even lengthierthan it should be

Te addition o Anandi Pirsquosgirlriend in Pondicherry beorehe migrated is one o the moreobvious but significant differ-

ences in the film It adds anemotional depth to his adoles-cence beore he migratedto Canada and emphasizesthe pain o leaving everythingbehind in India as they leave insearch or a supposedly betteruture

Te scenes with the French cookand the Buddhist were absentrom the book Adding themallows the audience to recognise

the story in which there wasa switch between the animalsand actual people on the simt-sum and find the connectionbetween the people and theanimals that corresponded withtheir personalities

A difference can also be seen inthe scene where the oil tanker

appeared as well In the bookthe oil tanker is right in ront oPi and almost crashes into himwhich is quite dramatic How-ever the oil tanker passes Pi inthe horizon in the film subtlyemphasizing the fleetingness ohope during absolute adversity

Tere is also a part where Piseems to have lost his sanityas he and Richard Parker wentblind Pi also met a ellow sur-

vivor on the sea which couldbe a hallucination Tis sceneshouldnrsquot have been omittedrom the film it could add alittle more flavour to Pirsquos jour-ney on the silver screen as itrsquosprobably be true or anyone outon the sea or seven months

Te film also excluded the many

gory and gruelling parts o thebook Pi killing turtles anddrink their blood isnrsquot exactly agood shot However this san-itizes the story or people whohavenrsquot read the book yetshielding them rom the darkerrealities o surviving the harshconditions o the sea

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Conclusion Life of Pi is definitely a rare marvel that canprooundly move onersquos perspective on lie Itspowerul story o a boy and a Bengal tiger setagainst the ever-changing Pacific Ocean shedslight on the things in lie that we ofen ignoreIt asks us to reflect on ourselves our lie andour religion and acknowledge their imperec-tions and try to accept and be content withthem despite their imperections

Right at the beginning it unashamedlydeclares a challenge to make you believe inGod It is rare or a book to proess such amonumental dare even beore its story startsit might even deter some rom reading onAlthough in the end it does ulfil its objectivesto some extent but it may have all short to asceptical atheist

Te book is an intriguing cacophony o zoologyphilosophy and theology with a strange dose oadventure and reality It satisfies your readingpleasure while presenting a ew questions youseldom ask yoursel As you delve through thepages to uncover whatrsquos going to happen to Pinext the book slips in a ew words o wisdomthat will let you wonder about the meaning olie both the bookrsquos and yours

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Martel Yann (2001) Life of Pi New York Knop Canada

Christophe Jean-Castille (2012)Te Making of Life of Pi A FilmA Journey Harper Design

GROSS M (2008) Pondicherryrsquos French ConnectionTe New York imes 30th March

MUNOZ M (2012) lsquoLie o PirsquoComparing Ang Leersquos Film With Yann Martelrsquos Novel

Te Daily Beast

21st NovemberAvailable romhttpwwwthedailybeastcomarticles20121121lie-o-pi-comparing-ang-lee-s-film-with-yann-martel-s-novelhtml[Accessed 8th November 2013]

KEEGAN R(2012)James Cameron lsquoLie o Pirsquo lsquobreaks the paradigmrsquoo 3-D movies Los Angeles imes 2nd NovemberAvailable rom

httparticleslatimescom2012nov02entertainmentla-et-mn-james-cameron-lie-pi-3d-20121101[Accessed 12th November 2013]

Sparknotes Editors (2006) SparkNote on Life of Pi [Online]

Available rom httpwwwsparknotescomlitlieopi[Accessed October 30 2013]

Wickman K (2012)Te 32 Differences Between lsquoLife of Pirsquo Book and Movie[Online]Available romhttpwwwfilmcommoviesdifferences-between-lie-o-pi-book-and-movie[Accessed 16th November 2013

BRADSHER K (2003)Pondicherry Journal Te Zoo Is Fiction but It Just Might Spring to LieTe New York imes 20th FebruaryAvailable romhttpwwwnytimescom20030220worldpondicherry-journal-the-zoo-

is-fiction-but-it-just-might-spring-to-liehtml[Accessed 22nd November 2013]

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PLOT

Te story begins by divinginto how the tale came into

existence the Author scoursthrough the exotic lands oIndia or a rare inspiration ora new book Exasperated by thedeath o an idea and dwindlingunds he grew ever more ex-hausted but restless

Ten while having breakast ina small town a riendly nativecame up to him and polite

conversation ensued Te nativeoffered him a story that couldmake him believe in God Sus-picious o such a daring wagerthe Author asked i he was on areligious mission But the nativedenied the claim leading himto meet Piscine Molitor Patelinstead

Meet Piscine Molitor Patel anIndian who starts his lie inPondicherrymdasha quaint seasidetown with a pinch o France Hegrew up amongst the companyo animals in his atherrsquos zooBut tumultuous times loomedso Pirsquos ather decided to sell the

animals and move to CanadaTey board simtsum and setsailed

Pi awoke in the middle o nightto a aint noise A vicious stormhammered the ship so he decid-ed to experience all its strength

and awe Pi set out by himselafer ailing to bring his brotheralong or his little adventure Hestumbled across the deck amidstthe battering winds and rainTen alarms blared and the shipstarted to sink Shocked intomotion he rushed back to hisquarters only to find it alreadysubmerged He went back on

deck to even more chaos asescaped animals was thrashingabout in the storm Amidst allthe conusion the shiprsquos crewthrew him on the lieboat alongwith a zebra that jumped on itcausing the lieboat to breakree

He watched helplessly as theship perished along with hisentire amily and the uture thatthey were about to have As thewaves butchered the lieboathe saved Richard Parker onlyto realize his mistake later Hehad to deal with another car-nivore aboard a hyena But hehad other tamer companionsOrange Juice the orang utan anda wounded zebra

Stranded in the vastness o thePacific Ocean he used all pos-sible means to survive On thelieboat the instincts o surviv-al took over and nature tookits course the hyena brutallyattacked the zebra and the orangutan and Richard Parker tookaway the lie o the hyena Teocean was ruthless and unor-giving varying rom hot hellishdays to gale orce winds andrain

Pi struggled tending to Rich-ard Parker and himsel But

strangely by keeping the tigeralive he was keeping himselalive He trained Richard Parkerthrough trial and error to getrations rom the lieboat Onlya single ship passed them but itailed to take notice o the strug-gling survivors

He drifs between delirium and

hope then stumbled upon therarest miracles o nature a float-ing island It was alive with algaeand Meerkats Tere was a ewdays o total bliss ree o starva-tion and thirst Ten Pi discov-ered the island was carnivorousand realized remaining on theisland doesnrsquot guaranteesurvival

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He reached the coast o Mexico afer a death-deying227 days on the Pacific Ocean Barely any strengthlef in him he saw Richard Parker dive into the junglewithout leaving a single goodbye to commemoratetheir success In the hospital in the town o omatlanhe recuperated though not rom his heartbreak

wo officials rom the Japanese Ministry o ransport

asked him to recount his story to settle some ques-tions regarding the shipwreck they ound themselvesdumbounded Plagued by disbelie rom Pirsquos storythey asked or a more realistic story Pi switched theanimals on the lieboat to the people aboard simtsumwhich made the story appear closer to reality In theend the officials preerred the story with the animals

Pi continued his migration to Canada and settleddown in oronto He went to high school there anddecided to take a Bachelorrsquos degree with two majorsHe studied zoology and religious studies With hisstudies he recovered rom the traumatic experiencenow raising a amily o two children and a wie

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Certainly a peculiar child he was named afer a swimming pool hisatherrsquos close riend Francis Adirubasamy visited in Paris He was

always curious about the world around him once he even decidedto eed Richard Parker with some meat by his bare hands Since hischildhood he devoutly adhered to three religions Hinduism Chris-tianity and Islam to his atherrsquos dismay and brotherrsquos amusement

As his name resembles one o our most requent ways o relievingourselves his childhood was marred with bullying in the schoolplayground Resourceul and smart he associated himsel withthe peculiar number Pi to try and rid himsel o ridicule when heswitched school It was useul to some extent but sometimes eventhe teachers made mistakes

His resourceulness can also be seen in his days on the sea he built araf to distance himsel and the carnivores using only what he couldfind on the lieboat and scraped out survival or a Bengal tiger andhimsel rom the clutches o death

His mental strength abounds although sometimes wavering duringthe ordeal Nonetheless his will to survive and his persistent aithendures amidst all the storms and obstacles thrown mercilessly athim by the Pacific Ocean

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Last but not least therersquos Pirsquos elder brother Ravi He preers sportsover schoolwork and is one o the popular ones in school He ofenteases Pi over his devotion to the three religions he has

Pirsquos ather Santosh Patel is a stern but caring ather He constantlyworries about Pirsquos curious antics His was bedridden with polio earlyin his lie but was saved by Western medicine With that he grewsceptical about religion and chose to believe in rationality instead othe Gods in the Hindu religion

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Literally the biggest character in the story she is an ominous being

that ofen switches personality rom lethally threatening all thepassengers aboard the lieboat with gigantic waves and lightning tocreating magnificent golden sunsets i theyrsquore lucky enough to be inher good graces Credit definitely has to be given to her or provid-ing sustenance or Pi and Richard Parker

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Francis is a close riend o the Patel amily A champion swimmerhe did his best to teach swimming to the Patel amily but only man-aged to capture Pirsquos interest He was the one who unintentionallynamed Pi as he told Santosh o the magnificent Parisian swimmingpool

Pirsquos eline companionrsquos curious name was due to a clerical errorhis true name was Tirsty but the other name stuck A hunter theactual Richard Parker ound him as a cub with his mother as hewas hunting or a panther Te cub rushed to drink in the river aferbeing picked up by the hunter hence the name Tirsty

Richard Parker is a Bengal tiger raised by the zookeepers in Pondi-cherry Zoo He was the one who kept Pi alive in the Pacific Oceanalbeit paradoxically

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NARRATOR Te story is mainly narrated by Pi himsel Although there are aew chapters in which the Author is narrating the story o his ate-ul meeting with Pi When Pi narrates the story o his entire liehe invites you into it allowing an almost personal and intimatelook into his lie

Just afer simtsum sank he takes on a darker tone as he grappleswith the horrible truth that his amily is lost like any traumatizedsurvivor o a shipwreck would and a earul tone when he wit-nessed the hyena attacking the zebra and the orang utan

Afer getting used to the elements Pi narrates his days adrif inthe Pacific Ocean in manner that sometimes can be quite humor-ous and anecdotal as he learns survival at the mercy o the PacificOcean and a Royal Bengal tiger

Pirsquos breezy and optimistic tone allows readers to easily sink into

the story It captures the interest o the attention o the reader in analmost subconscious way enticing the rantic flipping o pages justto discover all the wonders in his almost impossible tale o survivalwithout eeling too emotionally drained

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ANALOGIES

Te most powerul analogy is the floating island It represents themyriad o religions that we currently have Te trees on the island

represents the leaders o religions while the Meerkats the ollow-ers As it preys at night it shows that religion can disjoint us romreality i wersquore not too careul with it However religion does offersolace during times o despair it can be seen as it offers shelter andsustenance or him and Richard Parker

Another analogy is the lieboat which represents our journeythrough lie and its various passengers our critics in lie Tehyena and Richard Parker creates chaos on the lieboat which isanalogous to how people can ofen bring us down Pi also had toweather the elements which shows that that we have to weather

challenges in lie as well

Te two Japanese officials can be seen as the audience themselvesAs the two attempt to make sense o Pirsquos preposterous story theaudience are also choosing which story to believe the one with theanimals or the one without

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C ENTRAL T HEMES

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Te novel deals with religionSometimes it divides us as wefight over the differences o oth-ers When the story tells o the

bickering between the imampriest and the Hindu pandit it shows how different variousreligions can be and yet unveilsall the similarities they haveIt seems trivial to ocus on thenegative traits o other religionswhen they are merely justdifferent rather than negativeWe are asked to at least be

open-minded to other religionbecause we all have our ownGods to guide us

Te book in a sense is a ser-mon a scripture o a verymodern origin As Pi avidlyollows the three religions hisspirituality grew and evolvedwhich became instrumental tohis survival across the Pacific

Ocean Itrsquos littered throughoutthe story a God (or Gods) with-in ourselves helps us grow andmature offering warmth amidstour sometimes chaotic lives

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either drafed up by ourselves orthrown at us by lie the mo-ment it suraces Resilience ismore than just a mere skill to besharpened or a rare talent givento a gifed ew it is a way o lienot a way to deal with lie

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Early on in the book Pi quietlydeclares

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A call that reaches out to us aswe sometimes wallow trappedin excuses ears and restrictionsthat lie throws at us relentlesslyIt is a call to us to rise up romthe challenges o lie that makes

us stronger and make lie justthat more interesting

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Although itrsquos barely the smart-est move in lie still it is therare eats o kindness that kept

humanity alive throughoutcenturies o tragedies As Pisacrifices a portion o his rationsto Richard Parker he builds aconnection with him A bondthough it ended abruptly wasone o the ew things that stavedoff death or both o them

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Martel handles the plot in a very smooth light-hearted way Reading thebook is akin to a day o smooth sailing accompanied by gorgeous weatherTough there are the more suspenseul and darker chapters as well Mar-telrsquos writing allows readers to immerse into the dramatic highs and lows oPirsquos adventure without eeling too exhausted

Martel almost entirely uses proper and simple English except or the

names o the various Indian ood and Hindu Gods which thankully isusually accompanied with a brie explanation Te absence o racial orcultural slangs allows the reader to relate with the story easily and quicklywithout resorting to Google the various obscure names or terms

Martelrsquos writing can be ruminative and philosophical the story is dottedwith plenty o inspiring quotes that could last or more than a lietimeand here are some that stood out

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Representationof Reality

Te story plays with both the whimsicality o fiction and theseriousness o reality Everything rom Pirsquos childhood and liein Pondicherry to the practices o the three religion Pi ollowsclosely mirrors our reality even the scenic landscape o Munnarthat Pi visited during a amily vacation and the once elegant(now in the midst o resuscitation) Parisian swimming pool thatPi was named afer Piscine Molitor actually exist

However how ofen is that an Indian boy is actually namedafer a swimming pool in Paris and having to deal with a Bengal

tiger in middle o the Pacific Ocean or months on end Teseand other extremely circumstantial details are barely possibleand yet Martel was able to present them naturally By addingsubtle flavours and spices he turns an extraordinary story to aseemingly ordinary but nonetheless interesting one

World ViewTe story revels in a world that is ull o endless wonders andpossible impossibilities From living briefly on a carnivorousisland that seeps out acid to catch its prey rom the ocean and

its ground to the magnificence o a Bengal tiger to surviving vicious storms with insufficient rations the story depicts thewondrous brilliance o Mother Nature It shows the humanrsquosinstinctual thirst o overcoming insurmountable odds duringsurvival or hardships o lie

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F ILM ADAPTATION

Te film adaptation o the noveldebuted on November 2012instantly garnering widespread

acclaim rom critics and audi-ences It was directed by re-nowned film director Ang Leewith the adapted screenplay byDavid Magee

Suraj Sharmarsquos immense talentshown through despite beinga total newcomer He sin-gle-handedly bore the weighto the majority o the filmrsquosproduction Under Ang Leersquoswatchul guidance he embod-ied the title character with aperormance that wowed criticsOther talented cast membersinclude Irran Khan Rae SpallGeacuterard Depardieu abu andAdil Hussain

O course like most adapta-

tions the film is added with apinch o quintessential Hol-lywood magic in the ormo striking visual effects andemotionally charged scenes andtheme music which makes thestory even more powerul How-ever the film lost some o Mar-telrsquos lighter touch But with Leersquosdirection the film truly brought

out the magic and imagery othe original without allowingthe audience to compare it withthe original

Te cinematography is superb

and the visual effects a hugebulk o the film is stunninglyconvincing Especially the visu-al effects on the sea itrsquos depictedas a living breathing entity withits own set o emotions ratherthan just a prop on the set Itshows both the beautiully calmside and dangerously uriousside oceans have that we donrsquot

normally encounter

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resoundingly antastic homageto the original book successul-ly condensing the essence o theoriginal into a two-hour visualmasterpiece while also divingthe audience into the deepermeanings o lie Itrsquos very rareor a film adaptation to pull offmirroring the original withoutchanging much o the original

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As with most film adaptationsgo they are bound to be di-erent rom the original mate-rial Life of Pi is no exception

though the differences withinthe film are subtle enough tohave little impact on the storybut noticeable enough

Te authorrsquos note and most oPirsquos explanation on zoology hasbeen lef out Itrsquos a logical deci-sion as people donrsquot really needto know how sloths and other

animals behave in the zoo andout in the wild to ully under-stand the plot Adding themwould just cause a two-hourlong film to eel even lengthierthan it should be

Te addition o Anandi Pirsquosgirlriend in Pondicherry beorehe migrated is one o the moreobvious but significant differ-

ences in the film It adds anemotional depth to his adoles-cence beore he migratedto Canada and emphasizesthe pain o leaving everythingbehind in India as they leave insearch or a supposedly betteruture

Te scenes with the French cookand the Buddhist were absentrom the book Adding themallows the audience to recognise

the story in which there wasa switch between the animalsand actual people on the simt-sum and find the connectionbetween the people and theanimals that corresponded withtheir personalities

A difference can also be seen inthe scene where the oil tanker

appeared as well In the bookthe oil tanker is right in ront oPi and almost crashes into himwhich is quite dramatic How-ever the oil tanker passes Pi inthe horizon in the film subtlyemphasizing the fleetingness ohope during absolute adversity

Tere is also a part where Piseems to have lost his sanityas he and Richard Parker wentblind Pi also met a ellow sur-

vivor on the sea which couldbe a hallucination Tis sceneshouldnrsquot have been omittedrom the film it could add alittle more flavour to Pirsquos jour-ney on the silver screen as itrsquosprobably be true or anyone outon the sea or seven months

Te film also excluded the many

gory and gruelling parts o thebook Pi killing turtles anddrink their blood isnrsquot exactly agood shot However this san-itizes the story or people whohavenrsquot read the book yetshielding them rom the darkerrealities o surviving the harshconditions o the sea

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Conclusion Life of Pi is definitely a rare marvel that canprooundly move onersquos perspective on lie Itspowerul story o a boy and a Bengal tiger setagainst the ever-changing Pacific Ocean shedslight on the things in lie that we ofen ignoreIt asks us to reflect on ourselves our lie andour religion and acknowledge their imperec-tions and try to accept and be content withthem despite their imperections

Right at the beginning it unashamedlydeclares a challenge to make you believe inGod It is rare or a book to proess such amonumental dare even beore its story startsit might even deter some rom reading onAlthough in the end it does ulfil its objectivesto some extent but it may have all short to asceptical atheist

Te book is an intriguing cacophony o zoologyphilosophy and theology with a strange dose oadventure and reality It satisfies your readingpleasure while presenting a ew questions youseldom ask yoursel As you delve through thepages to uncover whatrsquos going to happen to Pinext the book slips in a ew words o wisdomthat will let you wonder about the meaning olie both the bookrsquos and yours

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Martel Yann (2001) Life of Pi New York Knop Canada

Christophe Jean-Castille (2012)Te Making of Life of Pi A FilmA Journey Harper Design

GROSS M (2008) Pondicherryrsquos French ConnectionTe New York imes 30th March

MUNOZ M (2012) lsquoLie o PirsquoComparing Ang Leersquos Film With Yann Martelrsquos Novel

Te Daily Beast

21st NovemberAvailable romhttpwwwthedailybeastcomarticles20121121lie-o-pi-comparing-ang-lee-s-film-with-yann-martel-s-novelhtml[Accessed 8th November 2013]

KEEGAN R(2012)James Cameron lsquoLie o Pirsquo lsquobreaks the paradigmrsquoo 3-D movies Los Angeles imes 2nd NovemberAvailable rom

httparticleslatimescom2012nov02entertainmentla-et-mn-james-cameron-lie-pi-3d-20121101[Accessed 12th November 2013]

Sparknotes Editors (2006) SparkNote on Life of Pi [Online]

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Wickman K (2012)Te 32 Differences Between lsquoLife of Pirsquo Book and Movie[Online]Available romhttpwwwfilmcommoviesdifferences-between-lie-o-pi-book-and-movie[Accessed 16th November 2013

BRADSHER K (2003)Pondicherry Journal Te Zoo Is Fiction but It Just Might Spring to LieTe New York imes 20th FebruaryAvailable romhttpwwwnytimescom20030220worldpondicherry-journal-the-zoo-

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He reached the coast o Mexico afer a death-deying227 days on the Pacific Ocean Barely any strengthlef in him he saw Richard Parker dive into the junglewithout leaving a single goodbye to commemoratetheir success In the hospital in the town o omatlanhe recuperated though not rom his heartbreak

wo officials rom the Japanese Ministry o ransport

asked him to recount his story to settle some ques-tions regarding the shipwreck they ound themselvesdumbounded Plagued by disbelie rom Pirsquos storythey asked or a more realistic story Pi switched theanimals on the lieboat to the people aboard simtsumwhich made the story appear closer to reality In theend the officials preerred the story with the animals

Pi continued his migration to Canada and settleddown in oronto He went to high school there anddecided to take a Bachelorrsquos degree with two majorsHe studied zoology and religious studies With hisstudies he recovered rom the traumatic experiencenow raising a amily o two children and a wie

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Certainly a peculiar child he was named afer a swimming pool hisatherrsquos close riend Francis Adirubasamy visited in Paris He was

always curious about the world around him once he even decidedto eed Richard Parker with some meat by his bare hands Since hischildhood he devoutly adhered to three religions Hinduism Chris-tianity and Islam to his atherrsquos dismay and brotherrsquos amusement

As his name resembles one o our most requent ways o relievingourselves his childhood was marred with bullying in the schoolplayground Resourceul and smart he associated himsel withthe peculiar number Pi to try and rid himsel o ridicule when heswitched school It was useul to some extent but sometimes eventhe teachers made mistakes

His resourceulness can also be seen in his days on the sea he built araf to distance himsel and the carnivores using only what he couldfind on the lieboat and scraped out survival or a Bengal tiger andhimsel rom the clutches o death

His mental strength abounds although sometimes wavering duringthe ordeal Nonetheless his will to survive and his persistent aithendures amidst all the storms and obstacles thrown mercilessly athim by the Pacific Ocean

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Last but not least therersquos Pirsquos elder brother Ravi He preers sportsover schoolwork and is one o the popular ones in school He ofenteases Pi over his devotion to the three religions he has

Pirsquos ather Santosh Patel is a stern but caring ather He constantlyworries about Pirsquos curious antics His was bedridden with polio earlyin his lie but was saved by Western medicine With that he grewsceptical about religion and chose to believe in rationality instead othe Gods in the Hindu religion

His mother Gita Patel is a good mother that attempts to under-stand the idea o Pi having three religions A protective mother thatlooked afer Pi sometimes rom his husbandrsquos more serious parent-

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Literally the biggest character in the story she is an ominous being

that ofen switches personality rom lethally threatening all thepassengers aboard the lieboat with gigantic waves and lightning tocreating magnificent golden sunsets i theyrsquore lucky enough to be inher good graces Credit definitely has to be given to her or provid-ing sustenance or Pi and Richard Parker

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Francis is a close riend o the Patel amily A champion swimmerhe did his best to teach swimming to the Patel amily but only man-aged to capture Pirsquos interest He was the one who unintentionallynamed Pi as he told Santosh o the magnificent Parisian swimmingpool

Pirsquos eline companionrsquos curious name was due to a clerical errorhis true name was Tirsty but the other name stuck A hunter theactual Richard Parker ound him as a cub with his mother as hewas hunting or a panther Te cub rushed to drink in the river aferbeing picked up by the hunter hence the name Tirsty

Richard Parker is a Bengal tiger raised by the zookeepers in Pondi-cherry Zoo He was the one who kept Pi alive in the Pacific Oceanalbeit paradoxically

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NARRATOR Te story is mainly narrated by Pi himsel Although there are aew chapters in which the Author is narrating the story o his ate-ul meeting with Pi When Pi narrates the story o his entire liehe invites you into it allowing an almost personal and intimatelook into his lie

Just afer simtsum sank he takes on a darker tone as he grappleswith the horrible truth that his amily is lost like any traumatizedsurvivor o a shipwreck would and a earul tone when he wit-nessed the hyena attacking the zebra and the orang utan

Afer getting used to the elements Pi narrates his days adrif inthe Pacific Ocean in manner that sometimes can be quite humor-ous and anecdotal as he learns survival at the mercy o the PacificOcean and a Royal Bengal tiger

Pirsquos breezy and optimistic tone allows readers to easily sink into

the story It captures the interest o the attention o the reader in analmost subconscious way enticing the rantic flipping o pages justto discover all the wonders in his almost impossible tale o survivalwithout eeling too emotionally drained

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ANALOGIES

Te most powerul analogy is the floating island It represents themyriad o religions that we currently have Te trees on the island

represents the leaders o religions while the Meerkats the ollow-ers As it preys at night it shows that religion can disjoint us romreality i wersquore not too careul with it However religion does offersolace during times o despair it can be seen as it offers shelter andsustenance or him and Richard Parker

Another analogy is the lieboat which represents our journeythrough lie and its various passengers our critics in lie Tehyena and Richard Parker creates chaos on the lieboat which isanalogous to how people can ofen bring us down Pi also had toweather the elements which shows that that we have to weather

challenges in lie as well

Te two Japanese officials can be seen as the audience themselvesAs the two attempt to make sense o Pirsquos preposterous story theaudience are also choosing which story to believe the one with theanimals or the one without

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C ENTRAL T HEMES

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Te novel deals with religionSometimes it divides us as wefight over the differences o oth-ers When the story tells o the

bickering between the imampriest and the Hindu pandit it shows how different variousreligions can be and yet unveilsall the similarities they haveIt seems trivial to ocus on thenegative traits o other religionswhen they are merely justdifferent rather than negativeWe are asked to at least be

open-minded to other religionbecause we all have our ownGods to guide us

Te book in a sense is a ser-mon a scripture o a verymodern origin As Pi avidlyollows the three religions hisspirituality grew and evolvedwhich became instrumental tohis survival across the Pacific

Ocean Itrsquos littered throughoutthe story a God (or Gods) with-in ourselves helps us grow andmature offering warmth amidstour sometimes chaotic lives

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either drafed up by ourselves orthrown at us by lie the mo-ment it suraces Resilience ismore than just a mere skill to besharpened or a rare talent givento a gifed ew it is a way o lienot a way to deal with lie

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Early on in the book Pi quietlydeclares

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A call that reaches out to us aswe sometimes wallow trappedin excuses ears and restrictionsthat lie throws at us relentlesslyIt is a call to us to rise up romthe challenges o lie that makes

us stronger and make lie justthat more interesting

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Although itrsquos barely the smart-est move in lie still it is therare eats o kindness that kept

humanity alive throughoutcenturies o tragedies As Pisacrifices a portion o his rationsto Richard Parker he builds aconnection with him A bondthough it ended abruptly wasone o the ew things that stavedoff death or both o them

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Martel handles the plot in a very smooth light-hearted way Reading thebook is akin to a day o smooth sailing accompanied by gorgeous weatherTough there are the more suspenseul and darker chapters as well Mar-telrsquos writing allows readers to immerse into the dramatic highs and lows oPirsquos adventure without eeling too exhausted

Martel almost entirely uses proper and simple English except or the

names o the various Indian ood and Hindu Gods which thankully isusually accompanied with a brie explanation Te absence o racial orcultural slangs allows the reader to relate with the story easily and quicklywithout resorting to Google the various obscure names or terms

Martelrsquos writing can be ruminative and philosophical the story is dottedwith plenty o inspiring quotes that could last or more than a lietimeand here are some that stood out

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Representationof Reality

Te story plays with both the whimsicality o fiction and theseriousness o reality Everything rom Pirsquos childhood and liein Pondicherry to the practices o the three religion Pi ollowsclosely mirrors our reality even the scenic landscape o Munnarthat Pi visited during a amily vacation and the once elegant(now in the midst o resuscitation) Parisian swimming pool thatPi was named afer Piscine Molitor actually exist

However how ofen is that an Indian boy is actually namedafer a swimming pool in Paris and having to deal with a Bengal

tiger in middle o the Pacific Ocean or months on end Teseand other extremely circumstantial details are barely possibleand yet Martel was able to present them naturally By addingsubtle flavours and spices he turns an extraordinary story to aseemingly ordinary but nonetheless interesting one

World ViewTe story revels in a world that is ull o endless wonders andpossible impossibilities From living briefly on a carnivorousisland that seeps out acid to catch its prey rom the ocean and

its ground to the magnificence o a Bengal tiger to surviving vicious storms with insufficient rations the story depicts thewondrous brilliance o Mother Nature It shows the humanrsquosinstinctual thirst o overcoming insurmountable odds duringsurvival or hardships o lie

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F ILM ADAPTATION

Te film adaptation o the noveldebuted on November 2012instantly garnering widespread

acclaim rom critics and audi-ences It was directed by re-nowned film director Ang Leewith the adapted screenplay byDavid Magee

Suraj Sharmarsquos immense talentshown through despite beinga total newcomer He sin-gle-handedly bore the weighto the majority o the filmrsquosproduction Under Ang Leersquoswatchul guidance he embod-ied the title character with aperormance that wowed criticsOther talented cast membersinclude Irran Khan Rae SpallGeacuterard Depardieu abu andAdil Hussain

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tions the film is added with apinch o quintessential Hol-lywood magic in the ormo striking visual effects andemotionally charged scenes andtheme music which makes thestory even more powerul How-ever the film lost some o Mar-telrsquos lighter touch But with Leersquosdirection the film truly brought

out the magic and imagery othe original without allowingthe audience to compare it withthe original

Te cinematography is superb

and the visual effects a hugebulk o the film is stunninglyconvincing Especially the visu-al effects on the sea itrsquos depictedas a living breathing entity withits own set o emotions ratherthan just a prop on the set Itshows both the beautiully calmside and dangerously uriousside oceans have that we donrsquot

normally encounter

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resoundingly antastic homageto the original book successul-ly condensing the essence o theoriginal into a two-hour visualmasterpiece while also divingthe audience into the deepermeanings o lie Itrsquos very rareor a film adaptation to pull offmirroring the original withoutchanging much o the original

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As with most film adaptationsgo they are bound to be di-erent rom the original mate-rial Life of Pi is no exception

though the differences withinthe film are subtle enough tohave little impact on the storybut noticeable enough

Te authorrsquos note and most oPirsquos explanation on zoology hasbeen lef out Itrsquos a logical deci-sion as people donrsquot really needto know how sloths and other

animals behave in the zoo andout in the wild to ully under-stand the plot Adding themwould just cause a two-hourlong film to eel even lengthierthan it should be

Te addition o Anandi Pirsquosgirlriend in Pondicherry beorehe migrated is one o the moreobvious but significant differ-

ences in the film It adds anemotional depth to his adoles-cence beore he migratedto Canada and emphasizesthe pain o leaving everythingbehind in India as they leave insearch or a supposedly betteruture

Te scenes with the French cookand the Buddhist were absentrom the book Adding themallows the audience to recognise

the story in which there wasa switch between the animalsand actual people on the simt-sum and find the connectionbetween the people and theanimals that corresponded withtheir personalities

A difference can also be seen inthe scene where the oil tanker

appeared as well In the bookthe oil tanker is right in ront oPi and almost crashes into himwhich is quite dramatic How-ever the oil tanker passes Pi inthe horizon in the film subtlyemphasizing the fleetingness ohope during absolute adversity

Tere is also a part where Piseems to have lost his sanityas he and Richard Parker wentblind Pi also met a ellow sur-

vivor on the sea which couldbe a hallucination Tis sceneshouldnrsquot have been omittedrom the film it could add alittle more flavour to Pirsquos jour-ney on the silver screen as itrsquosprobably be true or anyone outon the sea or seven months

Te film also excluded the many

gory and gruelling parts o thebook Pi killing turtles anddrink their blood isnrsquot exactly agood shot However this san-itizes the story or people whohavenrsquot read the book yetshielding them rom the darkerrealities o surviving the harshconditions o the sea

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Conclusion Life of Pi is definitely a rare marvel that canprooundly move onersquos perspective on lie Itspowerul story o a boy and a Bengal tiger setagainst the ever-changing Pacific Ocean shedslight on the things in lie that we ofen ignoreIt asks us to reflect on ourselves our lie andour religion and acknowledge their imperec-tions and try to accept and be content withthem despite their imperections

Right at the beginning it unashamedlydeclares a challenge to make you believe inGod It is rare or a book to proess such amonumental dare even beore its story startsit might even deter some rom reading onAlthough in the end it does ulfil its objectivesto some extent but it may have all short to asceptical atheist

Te book is an intriguing cacophony o zoologyphilosophy and theology with a strange dose oadventure and reality It satisfies your readingpleasure while presenting a ew questions youseldom ask yoursel As you delve through thepages to uncover whatrsquos going to happen to Pinext the book slips in a ew words o wisdomthat will let you wonder about the meaning olie both the bookrsquos and yours

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Martel Yann (2001) Life of Pi New York Knop Canada

Christophe Jean-Castille (2012)Te Making of Life of Pi A FilmA Journey Harper Design

GROSS M (2008) Pondicherryrsquos French ConnectionTe New York imes 30th March

MUNOZ M (2012) lsquoLie o PirsquoComparing Ang Leersquos Film With Yann Martelrsquos Novel

Te Daily Beast

21st NovemberAvailable romhttpwwwthedailybeastcomarticles20121121lie-o-pi-comparing-ang-lee-s-film-with-yann-martel-s-novelhtml[Accessed 8th November 2013]

KEEGAN R(2012)James Cameron lsquoLie o Pirsquo lsquobreaks the paradigmrsquoo 3-D movies Los Angeles imes 2nd NovemberAvailable rom

httparticleslatimescom2012nov02entertainmentla-et-mn-james-cameron-lie-pi-3d-20121101[Accessed 12th November 2013]

Sparknotes Editors (2006) SparkNote on Life of Pi [Online]

Available rom httpwwwsparknotescomlitlieopi[Accessed October 30 2013]

Wickman K (2012)Te 32 Differences Between lsquoLife of Pirsquo Book and Movie[Online]Available romhttpwwwfilmcommoviesdifferences-between-lie-o-pi-book-and-movie[Accessed 16th November 2013

BRADSHER K (2003)Pondicherry Journal Te Zoo Is Fiction but It Just Might Spring to LieTe New York imes 20th FebruaryAvailable romhttpwwwnytimescom20030220worldpondicherry-journal-the-zoo-

is-fiction-but-it-just-might-spring-to-liehtml[Accessed 22nd November 2013]

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C HARACTERS

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Certainly a peculiar child he was named afer a swimming pool hisatherrsquos close riend Francis Adirubasamy visited in Paris He was

always curious about the world around him once he even decidedto eed Richard Parker with some meat by his bare hands Since hischildhood he devoutly adhered to three religions Hinduism Chris-tianity and Islam to his atherrsquos dismay and brotherrsquos amusement

As his name resembles one o our most requent ways o relievingourselves his childhood was marred with bullying in the schoolplayground Resourceul and smart he associated himsel withthe peculiar number Pi to try and rid himsel o ridicule when heswitched school It was useul to some extent but sometimes eventhe teachers made mistakes

His resourceulness can also be seen in his days on the sea he built araf to distance himsel and the carnivores using only what he couldfind on the lieboat and scraped out survival or a Bengal tiger andhimsel rom the clutches o death

His mental strength abounds although sometimes wavering duringthe ordeal Nonetheless his will to survive and his persistent aithendures amidst all the storms and obstacles thrown mercilessly athim by the Pacific Ocean

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Last but not least therersquos Pirsquos elder brother Ravi He preers sportsover schoolwork and is one o the popular ones in school He ofenteases Pi over his devotion to the three religions he has

Pirsquos ather Santosh Patel is a stern but caring ather He constantlyworries about Pirsquos curious antics His was bedridden with polio earlyin his lie but was saved by Western medicine With that he grewsceptical about religion and chose to believe in rationality instead othe Gods in the Hindu religion

His mother Gita Patel is a good mother that attempts to under-stand the idea o Pi having three religions A protective mother thatlooked afer Pi sometimes rom his husbandrsquos more serious parent-

ing techniques

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Literally the biggest character in the story she is an ominous being

that ofen switches personality rom lethally threatening all thepassengers aboard the lieboat with gigantic waves and lightning tocreating magnificent golden sunsets i theyrsquore lucky enough to be inher good graces Credit definitely has to be given to her or provid-ing sustenance or Pi and Richard Parker

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Francis is a close riend o the Patel amily A champion swimmerhe did his best to teach swimming to the Patel amily but only man-aged to capture Pirsquos interest He was the one who unintentionallynamed Pi as he told Santosh o the magnificent Parisian swimmingpool

Pirsquos eline companionrsquos curious name was due to a clerical errorhis true name was Tirsty but the other name stuck A hunter theactual Richard Parker ound him as a cub with his mother as hewas hunting or a panther Te cub rushed to drink in the river aferbeing picked up by the hunter hence the name Tirsty

Richard Parker is a Bengal tiger raised by the zookeepers in Pondi-cherry Zoo He was the one who kept Pi alive in the Pacific Oceanalbeit paradoxically

He was somewhat domesticated and weakened as he was poundedby hunger intense sunlight and storms In the end he didnrsquot lookback at the eeble human that ed him unceremoniously leavinghim afer leaping into the tropical jungle in Mexico

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NARRATOR Te story is mainly narrated by Pi himsel Although there are aew chapters in which the Author is narrating the story o his ate-ul meeting with Pi When Pi narrates the story o his entire liehe invites you into it allowing an almost personal and intimatelook into his lie

Just afer simtsum sank he takes on a darker tone as he grappleswith the horrible truth that his amily is lost like any traumatizedsurvivor o a shipwreck would and a earul tone when he wit-nessed the hyena attacking the zebra and the orang utan

Afer getting used to the elements Pi narrates his days adrif inthe Pacific Ocean in manner that sometimes can be quite humor-ous and anecdotal as he learns survival at the mercy o the PacificOcean and a Royal Bengal tiger

Pirsquos breezy and optimistic tone allows readers to easily sink into

the story It captures the interest o the attention o the reader in analmost subconscious way enticing the rantic flipping o pages justto discover all the wonders in his almost impossible tale o survivalwithout eeling too emotionally drained

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ANALOGIES

Te most powerul analogy is the floating island It represents themyriad o religions that we currently have Te trees on the island

represents the leaders o religions while the Meerkats the ollow-ers As it preys at night it shows that religion can disjoint us romreality i wersquore not too careul with it However religion does offersolace during times o despair it can be seen as it offers shelter andsustenance or him and Richard Parker

Another analogy is the lieboat which represents our journeythrough lie and its various passengers our critics in lie Tehyena and Richard Parker creates chaos on the lieboat which isanalogous to how people can ofen bring us down Pi also had toweather the elements which shows that that we have to weather

challenges in lie as well

Te two Japanese officials can be seen as the audience themselvesAs the two attempt to make sense o Pirsquos preposterous story theaudience are also choosing which story to believe the one with theanimals or the one without

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C ENTRAL T HEMES

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Te novel deals with religionSometimes it divides us as wefight over the differences o oth-ers When the story tells o the

bickering between the imampriest and the Hindu pandit it shows how different variousreligions can be and yet unveilsall the similarities they haveIt seems trivial to ocus on thenegative traits o other religionswhen they are merely justdifferent rather than negativeWe are asked to at least be

open-minded to other religionbecause we all have our ownGods to guide us

Te book in a sense is a ser-mon a scripture o a verymodern origin As Pi avidlyollows the three religions hisspirituality grew and evolvedwhich became instrumental tohis survival across the Pacific

Ocean Itrsquos littered throughoutthe story a God (or Gods) with-in ourselves helps us grow andmature offering warmth amidstour sometimes chaotic lives

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either drafed up by ourselves orthrown at us by lie the mo-ment it suraces Resilience ismore than just a mere skill to besharpened or a rare talent givento a gifed ew it is a way o lienot a way to deal with lie

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Early on in the book Pi quietlydeclares

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A call that reaches out to us aswe sometimes wallow trappedin excuses ears and restrictionsthat lie throws at us relentlesslyIt is a call to us to rise up romthe challenges o lie that makes

us stronger and make lie justthat more interesting

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Although itrsquos barely the smart-est move in lie still it is therare eats o kindness that kept

humanity alive throughoutcenturies o tragedies As Pisacrifices a portion o his rationsto Richard Parker he builds aconnection with him A bondthough it ended abruptly wasone o the ew things that stavedoff death or both o them

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Martel handles the plot in a very smooth light-hearted way Reading thebook is akin to a day o smooth sailing accompanied by gorgeous weatherTough there are the more suspenseul and darker chapters as well Mar-telrsquos writing allows readers to immerse into the dramatic highs and lows oPirsquos adventure without eeling too exhausted

Martel almost entirely uses proper and simple English except or the

names o the various Indian ood and Hindu Gods which thankully isusually accompanied with a brie explanation Te absence o racial orcultural slangs allows the reader to relate with the story easily and quicklywithout resorting to Google the various obscure names or terms

Martelrsquos writing can be ruminative and philosophical the story is dottedwith plenty o inspiring quotes that could last or more than a lietimeand here are some that stood out

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Representationof Reality

Te story plays with both the whimsicality o fiction and theseriousness o reality Everything rom Pirsquos childhood and liein Pondicherry to the practices o the three religion Pi ollowsclosely mirrors our reality even the scenic landscape o Munnarthat Pi visited during a amily vacation and the once elegant(now in the midst o resuscitation) Parisian swimming pool thatPi was named afer Piscine Molitor actually exist

However how ofen is that an Indian boy is actually namedafer a swimming pool in Paris and having to deal with a Bengal

tiger in middle o the Pacific Ocean or months on end Teseand other extremely circumstantial details are barely possibleand yet Martel was able to present them naturally By addingsubtle flavours and spices he turns an extraordinary story to aseemingly ordinary but nonetheless interesting one

World ViewTe story revels in a world that is ull o endless wonders andpossible impossibilities From living briefly on a carnivorousisland that seeps out acid to catch its prey rom the ocean and

its ground to the magnificence o a Bengal tiger to surviving vicious storms with insufficient rations the story depicts thewondrous brilliance o Mother Nature It shows the humanrsquosinstinctual thirst o overcoming insurmountable odds duringsurvival or hardships o lie

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F ILM ADAPTATION

Te film adaptation o the noveldebuted on November 2012instantly garnering widespread

acclaim rom critics and audi-ences It was directed by re-nowned film director Ang Leewith the adapted screenplay byDavid Magee

Suraj Sharmarsquos immense talentshown through despite beinga total newcomer He sin-gle-handedly bore the weighto the majority o the filmrsquosproduction Under Ang Leersquoswatchul guidance he embod-ied the title character with aperormance that wowed criticsOther talented cast membersinclude Irran Khan Rae SpallGeacuterard Depardieu abu andAdil Hussain

O course like most adapta-

tions the film is added with apinch o quintessential Hol-lywood magic in the ormo striking visual effects andemotionally charged scenes andtheme music which makes thestory even more powerul How-ever the film lost some o Mar-telrsquos lighter touch But with Leersquosdirection the film truly brought

out the magic and imagery othe original without allowingthe audience to compare it withthe original

Te cinematography is superb

and the visual effects a hugebulk o the film is stunninglyconvincing Especially the visu-al effects on the sea itrsquos depictedas a living breathing entity withits own set o emotions ratherthan just a prop on the set Itshows both the beautiully calmside and dangerously uriousside oceans have that we donrsquot

normally encounter

Te film adaptation pays a

resoundingly antastic homageto the original book successul-ly condensing the essence o theoriginal into a two-hour visualmasterpiece while also divingthe audience into the deepermeanings o lie Itrsquos very rareor a film adaptation to pull offmirroring the original withoutchanging much o the original

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As with most film adaptationsgo they are bound to be di-erent rom the original mate-rial Life of Pi is no exception

though the differences withinthe film are subtle enough tohave little impact on the storybut noticeable enough

Te authorrsquos note and most oPirsquos explanation on zoology hasbeen lef out Itrsquos a logical deci-sion as people donrsquot really needto know how sloths and other

animals behave in the zoo andout in the wild to ully under-stand the plot Adding themwould just cause a two-hourlong film to eel even lengthierthan it should be

Te addition o Anandi Pirsquosgirlriend in Pondicherry beorehe migrated is one o the moreobvious but significant differ-

ences in the film It adds anemotional depth to his adoles-cence beore he migratedto Canada and emphasizesthe pain o leaving everythingbehind in India as they leave insearch or a supposedly betteruture

Te scenes with the French cookand the Buddhist were absentrom the book Adding themallows the audience to recognise

the story in which there wasa switch between the animalsand actual people on the simt-sum and find the connectionbetween the people and theanimals that corresponded withtheir personalities

A difference can also be seen inthe scene where the oil tanker

appeared as well In the bookthe oil tanker is right in ront oPi and almost crashes into himwhich is quite dramatic How-ever the oil tanker passes Pi inthe horizon in the film subtlyemphasizing the fleetingness ohope during absolute adversity

Tere is also a part where Piseems to have lost his sanityas he and Richard Parker wentblind Pi also met a ellow sur-

vivor on the sea which couldbe a hallucination Tis sceneshouldnrsquot have been omittedrom the film it could add alittle more flavour to Pirsquos jour-ney on the silver screen as itrsquosprobably be true or anyone outon the sea or seven months

Te film also excluded the many

gory and gruelling parts o thebook Pi killing turtles anddrink their blood isnrsquot exactly agood shot However this san-itizes the story or people whohavenrsquot read the book yetshielding them rom the darkerrealities o surviving the harshconditions o the sea

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Conclusion Life of Pi is definitely a rare marvel that canprooundly move onersquos perspective on lie Itspowerul story o a boy and a Bengal tiger setagainst the ever-changing Pacific Ocean shedslight on the things in lie that we ofen ignoreIt asks us to reflect on ourselves our lie andour religion and acknowledge their imperec-tions and try to accept and be content withthem despite their imperections

Right at the beginning it unashamedlydeclares a challenge to make you believe inGod It is rare or a book to proess such amonumental dare even beore its story startsit might even deter some rom reading onAlthough in the end it does ulfil its objectivesto some extent but it may have all short to asceptical atheist

Te book is an intriguing cacophony o zoologyphilosophy and theology with a strange dose oadventure and reality It satisfies your readingpleasure while presenting a ew questions youseldom ask yoursel As you delve through thepages to uncover whatrsquos going to happen to Pinext the book slips in a ew words o wisdomthat will let you wonder about the meaning olie both the bookrsquos and yours

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Martel Yann (2001) Life of Pi New York Knop Canada

Christophe Jean-Castille (2012)Te Making of Life of Pi A FilmA Journey Harper Design

GROSS M (2008) Pondicherryrsquos French ConnectionTe New York imes 30th March

MUNOZ M (2012) lsquoLie o PirsquoComparing Ang Leersquos Film With Yann Martelrsquos Novel

Te Daily Beast

21st NovemberAvailable romhttpwwwthedailybeastcomarticles20121121lie-o-pi-comparing-ang-lee-s-film-with-yann-martel-s-novelhtml[Accessed 8th November 2013]

KEEGAN R(2012)James Cameron lsquoLie o Pirsquo lsquobreaks the paradigmrsquoo 3-D movies Los Angeles imes 2nd NovemberAvailable rom

httparticleslatimescom2012nov02entertainmentla-et-mn-james-cameron-lie-pi-3d-20121101[Accessed 12th November 2013]

Sparknotes Editors (2006) SparkNote on Life of Pi [Online]

Available rom httpwwwsparknotescomlitlieopi[Accessed October 30 2013]

Wickman K (2012)Te 32 Differences Between lsquoLife of Pirsquo Book and Movie[Online]Available romhttpwwwfilmcommoviesdifferences-between-lie-o-pi-book-and-movie[Accessed 16th November 2013

BRADSHER K (2003)Pondicherry Journal Te Zoo Is Fiction but It Just Might Spring to LieTe New York imes 20th FebruaryAvailable romhttpwwwnytimescom20030220worldpondicherry-journal-the-zoo-

is-fiction-but-it-just-might-spring-to-liehtml[Accessed 22nd November 2013]

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Last but not least therersquos Pirsquos elder brother Ravi He preers sportsover schoolwork and is one o the popular ones in school He ofenteases Pi over his devotion to the three religions he has

Pirsquos ather Santosh Patel is a stern but caring ather He constantlyworries about Pirsquos curious antics His was bedridden with polio earlyin his lie but was saved by Western medicine With that he grewsceptical about religion and chose to believe in rationality instead othe Gods in the Hindu religion

His mother Gita Patel is a good mother that attempts to under-stand the idea o Pi having three religions A protective mother thatlooked afer Pi sometimes rom his husbandrsquos more serious parent-

ing techniques

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Literally the biggest character in the story she is an ominous being

that ofen switches personality rom lethally threatening all thepassengers aboard the lieboat with gigantic waves and lightning tocreating magnificent golden sunsets i theyrsquore lucky enough to be inher good graces Credit definitely has to be given to her or provid-ing sustenance or Pi and Richard Parker

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Francis is a close riend o the Patel amily A champion swimmerhe did his best to teach swimming to the Patel amily but only man-aged to capture Pirsquos interest He was the one who unintentionallynamed Pi as he told Santosh o the magnificent Parisian swimmingpool

Pirsquos eline companionrsquos curious name was due to a clerical errorhis true name was Tirsty but the other name stuck A hunter theactual Richard Parker ound him as a cub with his mother as hewas hunting or a panther Te cub rushed to drink in the river aferbeing picked up by the hunter hence the name Tirsty

Richard Parker is a Bengal tiger raised by the zookeepers in Pondi-cherry Zoo He was the one who kept Pi alive in the Pacific Oceanalbeit paradoxically

He was somewhat domesticated and weakened as he was poundedby hunger intense sunlight and storms In the end he didnrsquot lookback at the eeble human that ed him unceremoniously leavinghim afer leaping into the tropical jungle in Mexico

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NARRATOR Te story is mainly narrated by Pi himsel Although there are aew chapters in which the Author is narrating the story o his ate-ul meeting with Pi When Pi narrates the story o his entire liehe invites you into it allowing an almost personal and intimatelook into his lie

Just afer simtsum sank he takes on a darker tone as he grappleswith the horrible truth that his amily is lost like any traumatizedsurvivor o a shipwreck would and a earul tone when he wit-nessed the hyena attacking the zebra and the orang utan

Afer getting used to the elements Pi narrates his days adrif inthe Pacific Ocean in manner that sometimes can be quite humor-ous and anecdotal as he learns survival at the mercy o the PacificOcean and a Royal Bengal tiger

Pirsquos breezy and optimistic tone allows readers to easily sink into

the story It captures the interest o the attention o the reader in analmost subconscious way enticing the rantic flipping o pages justto discover all the wonders in his almost impossible tale o survivalwithout eeling too emotionally drained

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ANALOGIES

Te most powerul analogy is the floating island It represents themyriad o religions that we currently have Te trees on the island

represents the leaders o religions while the Meerkats the ollow-ers As it preys at night it shows that religion can disjoint us romreality i wersquore not too careul with it However religion does offersolace during times o despair it can be seen as it offers shelter andsustenance or him and Richard Parker

Another analogy is the lieboat which represents our journeythrough lie and its various passengers our critics in lie Tehyena and Richard Parker creates chaos on the lieboat which isanalogous to how people can ofen bring us down Pi also had toweather the elements which shows that that we have to weather

challenges in lie as well

Te two Japanese officials can be seen as the audience themselvesAs the two attempt to make sense o Pirsquos preposterous story theaudience are also choosing which story to believe the one with theanimals or the one without

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C ENTRAL T HEMES

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Te novel deals with religionSometimes it divides us as wefight over the differences o oth-ers When the story tells o the

bickering between the imampriest and the Hindu pandit it shows how different variousreligions can be and yet unveilsall the similarities they haveIt seems trivial to ocus on thenegative traits o other religionswhen they are merely justdifferent rather than negativeWe are asked to at least be

open-minded to other religionbecause we all have our ownGods to guide us

Te book in a sense is a ser-mon a scripture o a verymodern origin As Pi avidlyollows the three religions hisspirituality grew and evolvedwhich became instrumental tohis survival across the Pacific

Ocean Itrsquos littered throughoutthe story a God (or Gods) with-in ourselves helps us grow andmature offering warmth amidstour sometimes chaotic lives

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either drafed up by ourselves orthrown at us by lie the mo-ment it suraces Resilience ismore than just a mere skill to besharpened or a rare talent givento a gifed ew it is a way o lienot a way to deal with lie

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A call that reaches out to us aswe sometimes wallow trappedin excuses ears and restrictionsthat lie throws at us relentlesslyIt is a call to us to rise up romthe challenges o lie that makes

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Although itrsquos barely the smart-est move in lie still it is therare eats o kindness that kept

humanity alive throughoutcenturies o tragedies As Pisacrifices a portion o his rationsto Richard Parker he builds aconnection with him A bondthough it ended abruptly wasone o the ew things that stavedoff death or both o them

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Martel handles the plot in a very smooth light-hearted way Reading thebook is akin to a day o smooth sailing accompanied by gorgeous weatherTough there are the more suspenseul and darker chapters as well Mar-telrsquos writing allows readers to immerse into the dramatic highs and lows oPirsquos adventure without eeling too exhausted

Martel almost entirely uses proper and simple English except or the

names o the various Indian ood and Hindu Gods which thankully isusually accompanied with a brie explanation Te absence o racial orcultural slangs allows the reader to relate with the story easily and quicklywithout resorting to Google the various obscure names or terms

Martelrsquos writing can be ruminative and philosophical the story is dottedwith plenty o inspiring quotes that could last or more than a lietimeand here are some that stood out

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Representationof Reality

Te story plays with both the whimsicality o fiction and theseriousness o reality Everything rom Pirsquos childhood and liein Pondicherry to the practices o the three religion Pi ollowsclosely mirrors our reality even the scenic landscape o Munnarthat Pi visited during a amily vacation and the once elegant(now in the midst o resuscitation) Parisian swimming pool thatPi was named afer Piscine Molitor actually exist

However how ofen is that an Indian boy is actually namedafer a swimming pool in Paris and having to deal with a Bengal

tiger in middle o the Pacific Ocean or months on end Teseand other extremely circumstantial details are barely possibleand yet Martel was able to present them naturally By addingsubtle flavours and spices he turns an extraordinary story to aseemingly ordinary but nonetheless interesting one

World ViewTe story revels in a world that is ull o endless wonders andpossible impossibilities From living briefly on a carnivorousisland that seeps out acid to catch its prey rom the ocean and

its ground to the magnificence o a Bengal tiger to surviving vicious storms with insufficient rations the story depicts thewondrous brilliance o Mother Nature It shows the humanrsquosinstinctual thirst o overcoming insurmountable odds duringsurvival or hardships o lie

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F ILM ADAPTATION

Te film adaptation o the noveldebuted on November 2012instantly garnering widespread

acclaim rom critics and audi-ences It was directed by re-nowned film director Ang Leewith the adapted screenplay byDavid Magee

Suraj Sharmarsquos immense talentshown through despite beinga total newcomer He sin-gle-handedly bore the weighto the majority o the filmrsquosproduction Under Ang Leersquoswatchul guidance he embod-ied the title character with aperormance that wowed criticsOther talented cast membersinclude Irran Khan Rae SpallGeacuterard Depardieu abu andAdil Hussain

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tions the film is added with apinch o quintessential Hol-lywood magic in the ormo striking visual effects andemotionally charged scenes andtheme music which makes thestory even more powerul How-ever the film lost some o Mar-telrsquos lighter touch But with Leersquosdirection the film truly brought

out the magic and imagery othe original without allowingthe audience to compare it withthe original

Te cinematography is superb

and the visual effects a hugebulk o the film is stunninglyconvincing Especially the visu-al effects on the sea itrsquos depictedas a living breathing entity withits own set o emotions ratherthan just a prop on the set Itshows both the beautiully calmside and dangerously uriousside oceans have that we donrsquot

normally encounter

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resoundingly antastic homageto the original book successul-ly condensing the essence o theoriginal into a two-hour visualmasterpiece while also divingthe audience into the deepermeanings o lie Itrsquos very rareor a film adaptation to pull offmirroring the original withoutchanging much o the original

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Legendary director Ang Lee on the set of the scene where Pilists out all the irrational figures of the nickname he coined for himself

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As with most film adaptationsgo they are bound to be di-erent rom the original mate-rial Life of Pi is no exception

though the differences withinthe film are subtle enough tohave little impact on the storybut noticeable enough

Te authorrsquos note and most oPirsquos explanation on zoology hasbeen lef out Itrsquos a logical deci-sion as people donrsquot really needto know how sloths and other

animals behave in the zoo andout in the wild to ully under-stand the plot Adding themwould just cause a two-hourlong film to eel even lengthierthan it should be

Te addition o Anandi Pirsquosgirlriend in Pondicherry beorehe migrated is one o the moreobvious but significant differ-

ences in the film It adds anemotional depth to his adoles-cence beore he migratedto Canada and emphasizesthe pain o leaving everythingbehind in India as they leave insearch or a supposedly betteruture

Te scenes with the French cookand the Buddhist were absentrom the book Adding themallows the audience to recognise

the story in which there wasa switch between the animalsand actual people on the simt-sum and find the connectionbetween the people and theanimals that corresponded withtheir personalities

A difference can also be seen inthe scene where the oil tanker

appeared as well In the bookthe oil tanker is right in ront oPi and almost crashes into himwhich is quite dramatic How-ever the oil tanker passes Pi inthe horizon in the film subtlyemphasizing the fleetingness ohope during absolute adversity

Tere is also a part where Piseems to have lost his sanityas he and Richard Parker wentblind Pi also met a ellow sur-

vivor on the sea which couldbe a hallucination Tis sceneshouldnrsquot have been omittedrom the film it could add alittle more flavour to Pirsquos jour-ney on the silver screen as itrsquosprobably be true or anyone outon the sea or seven months

Te film also excluded the many

gory and gruelling parts o thebook Pi killing turtles anddrink their blood isnrsquot exactly agood shot However this san-itizes the story or people whohavenrsquot read the book yetshielding them rom the darkerrealities o surviving the harshconditions o the sea

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Conclusion Life of Pi is definitely a rare marvel that canprooundly move onersquos perspective on lie Itspowerul story o a boy and a Bengal tiger setagainst the ever-changing Pacific Ocean shedslight on the things in lie that we ofen ignoreIt asks us to reflect on ourselves our lie andour religion and acknowledge their imperec-tions and try to accept and be content withthem despite their imperections

Right at the beginning it unashamedlydeclares a challenge to make you believe inGod It is rare or a book to proess such amonumental dare even beore its story startsit might even deter some rom reading onAlthough in the end it does ulfil its objectivesto some extent but it may have all short to asceptical atheist

Te book is an intriguing cacophony o zoologyphilosophy and theology with a strange dose oadventure and reality It satisfies your readingpleasure while presenting a ew questions youseldom ask yoursel As you delve through thepages to uncover whatrsquos going to happen to Pinext the book slips in a ew words o wisdomthat will let you wonder about the meaning olie both the bookrsquos and yours

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Martel Yann (2001) Life of Pi New York Knop Canada

Christophe Jean-Castille (2012)Te Making of Life of Pi A FilmA Journey Harper Design

GROSS M (2008) Pondicherryrsquos French ConnectionTe New York imes 30th March

MUNOZ M (2012) lsquoLie o PirsquoComparing Ang Leersquos Film With Yann Martelrsquos Novel

Te Daily Beast

21st NovemberAvailable romhttpwwwthedailybeastcomarticles20121121lie-o-pi-comparing-ang-lee-s-film-with-yann-martel-s-novelhtml[Accessed 8th November 2013]

KEEGAN R(2012)James Cameron lsquoLie o Pirsquo lsquobreaks the paradigmrsquoo 3-D movies Los Angeles imes 2nd NovemberAvailable rom

httparticleslatimescom2012nov02entertainmentla-et-mn-james-cameron-lie-pi-3d-20121101[Accessed 12th November 2013]

Sparknotes Editors (2006) SparkNote on Life of Pi [Online]

Available rom httpwwwsparknotescomlitlieopi[Accessed October 30 2013]

Wickman K (2012)Te 32 Differences Between lsquoLife of Pirsquo Book and Movie[Online]Available romhttpwwwfilmcommoviesdifferences-between-lie-o-pi-book-and-movie[Accessed 16th November 2013

BRADSHER K (2003)Pondicherry Journal Te Zoo Is Fiction but It Just Might Spring to LieTe New York imes 20th FebruaryAvailable romhttpwwwnytimescom20030220worldpondicherry-journal-the-zoo-

is-fiction-but-it-just-might-spring-to-liehtml[Accessed 22nd November 2013]

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Literally the biggest character in the story she is an ominous being

that ofen switches personality rom lethally threatening all thepassengers aboard the lieboat with gigantic waves and lightning tocreating magnificent golden sunsets i theyrsquore lucky enough to be inher good graces Credit definitely has to be given to her or provid-ing sustenance or Pi and Richard Parker

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Francis is a close riend o the Patel amily A champion swimmerhe did his best to teach swimming to the Patel amily but only man-aged to capture Pirsquos interest He was the one who unintentionallynamed Pi as he told Santosh o the magnificent Parisian swimmingpool

Pirsquos eline companionrsquos curious name was due to a clerical errorhis true name was Tirsty but the other name stuck A hunter theactual Richard Parker ound him as a cub with his mother as hewas hunting or a panther Te cub rushed to drink in the river aferbeing picked up by the hunter hence the name Tirsty

Richard Parker is a Bengal tiger raised by the zookeepers in Pondi-cherry Zoo He was the one who kept Pi alive in the Pacific Oceanalbeit paradoxically

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NARRATOR Te story is mainly narrated by Pi himsel Although there are aew chapters in which the Author is narrating the story o his ate-ul meeting with Pi When Pi narrates the story o his entire liehe invites you into it allowing an almost personal and intimatelook into his lie

Just afer simtsum sank he takes on a darker tone as he grappleswith the horrible truth that his amily is lost like any traumatizedsurvivor o a shipwreck would and a earul tone when he wit-nessed the hyena attacking the zebra and the orang utan

Afer getting used to the elements Pi narrates his days adrif inthe Pacific Ocean in manner that sometimes can be quite humor-ous and anecdotal as he learns survival at the mercy o the PacificOcean and a Royal Bengal tiger

Pirsquos breezy and optimistic tone allows readers to easily sink into

the story It captures the interest o the attention o the reader in analmost subconscious way enticing the rantic flipping o pages justto discover all the wonders in his almost impossible tale o survivalwithout eeling too emotionally drained

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ANALOGIES

Te most powerul analogy is the floating island It represents themyriad o religions that we currently have Te trees on the island

represents the leaders o religions while the Meerkats the ollow-ers As it preys at night it shows that religion can disjoint us romreality i wersquore not too careul with it However religion does offersolace during times o despair it can be seen as it offers shelter andsustenance or him and Richard Parker

Another analogy is the lieboat which represents our journeythrough lie and its various passengers our critics in lie Tehyena and Richard Parker creates chaos on the lieboat which isanalogous to how people can ofen bring us down Pi also had toweather the elements which shows that that we have to weather

challenges in lie as well

Te two Japanese officials can be seen as the audience themselvesAs the two attempt to make sense o Pirsquos preposterous story theaudience are also choosing which story to believe the one with theanimals or the one without

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C ENTRAL T HEMES

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Te novel deals with religionSometimes it divides us as wefight over the differences o oth-ers When the story tells o the

bickering between the imampriest and the Hindu pandit it shows how different variousreligions can be and yet unveilsall the similarities they haveIt seems trivial to ocus on thenegative traits o other religionswhen they are merely justdifferent rather than negativeWe are asked to at least be

open-minded to other religionbecause we all have our ownGods to guide us

Te book in a sense is a ser-mon a scripture o a verymodern origin As Pi avidlyollows the three religions hisspirituality grew and evolvedwhich became instrumental tohis survival across the Pacific

Ocean Itrsquos littered throughoutthe story a God (or Gods) with-in ourselves helps us grow andmature offering warmth amidstour sometimes chaotic lives

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either drafed up by ourselves orthrown at us by lie the mo-ment it suraces Resilience ismore than just a mere skill to besharpened or a rare talent givento a gifed ew it is a way o lienot a way to deal with lie

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Early on in the book Pi quietlydeclares

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A call that reaches out to us aswe sometimes wallow trappedin excuses ears and restrictionsthat lie throws at us relentlesslyIt is a call to us to rise up romthe challenges o lie that makes

us stronger and make lie justthat more interesting

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Although itrsquos barely the smart-est move in lie still it is therare eats o kindness that kept

humanity alive throughoutcenturies o tragedies As Pisacrifices a portion o his rationsto Richard Parker he builds aconnection with him A bondthough it ended abruptly wasone o the ew things that stavedoff death or both o them

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Martel handles the plot in a very smooth light-hearted way Reading thebook is akin to a day o smooth sailing accompanied by gorgeous weatherTough there are the more suspenseul and darker chapters as well Mar-telrsquos writing allows readers to immerse into the dramatic highs and lows oPirsquos adventure without eeling too exhausted

Martel almost entirely uses proper and simple English except or the

names o the various Indian ood and Hindu Gods which thankully isusually accompanied with a brie explanation Te absence o racial orcultural slangs allows the reader to relate with the story easily and quicklywithout resorting to Google the various obscure names or terms

Martelrsquos writing can be ruminative and philosophical the story is dottedwith plenty o inspiring quotes that could last or more than a lietimeand here are some that stood out

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Representationof Reality

Te story plays with both the whimsicality o fiction and theseriousness o reality Everything rom Pirsquos childhood and liein Pondicherry to the practices o the three religion Pi ollowsclosely mirrors our reality even the scenic landscape o Munnarthat Pi visited during a amily vacation and the once elegant(now in the midst o resuscitation) Parisian swimming pool thatPi was named afer Piscine Molitor actually exist

However how ofen is that an Indian boy is actually namedafer a swimming pool in Paris and having to deal with a Bengal

tiger in middle o the Pacific Ocean or months on end Teseand other extremely circumstantial details are barely possibleand yet Martel was able to present them naturally By addingsubtle flavours and spices he turns an extraordinary story to aseemingly ordinary but nonetheless interesting one

World ViewTe story revels in a world that is ull o endless wonders andpossible impossibilities From living briefly on a carnivorousisland that seeps out acid to catch its prey rom the ocean and

its ground to the magnificence o a Bengal tiger to surviving vicious storms with insufficient rations the story depicts thewondrous brilliance o Mother Nature It shows the humanrsquosinstinctual thirst o overcoming insurmountable odds duringsurvival or hardships o lie

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F ILM ADAPTATION

Te film adaptation o the noveldebuted on November 2012instantly garnering widespread

acclaim rom critics and audi-ences It was directed by re-nowned film director Ang Leewith the adapted screenplay byDavid Magee

Suraj Sharmarsquos immense talentshown through despite beinga total newcomer He sin-gle-handedly bore the weighto the majority o the filmrsquosproduction Under Ang Leersquoswatchul guidance he embod-ied the title character with aperormance that wowed criticsOther talented cast membersinclude Irran Khan Rae SpallGeacuterard Depardieu abu andAdil Hussain

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tions the film is added with apinch o quintessential Hol-lywood magic in the ormo striking visual effects andemotionally charged scenes andtheme music which makes thestory even more powerul How-ever the film lost some o Mar-telrsquos lighter touch But with Leersquosdirection the film truly brought

out the magic and imagery othe original without allowingthe audience to compare it withthe original

Te cinematography is superb

and the visual effects a hugebulk o the film is stunninglyconvincing Especially the visu-al effects on the sea itrsquos depictedas a living breathing entity withits own set o emotions ratherthan just a prop on the set Itshows both the beautiully calmside and dangerously uriousside oceans have that we donrsquot

normally encounter

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resoundingly antastic homageto the original book successul-ly condensing the essence o theoriginal into a two-hour visualmasterpiece while also divingthe audience into the deepermeanings o lie Itrsquos very rareor a film adaptation to pull offmirroring the original withoutchanging much o the original

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As with most film adaptationsgo they are bound to be di-erent rom the original mate-rial Life of Pi is no exception

though the differences withinthe film are subtle enough tohave little impact on the storybut noticeable enough

Te authorrsquos note and most oPirsquos explanation on zoology hasbeen lef out Itrsquos a logical deci-sion as people donrsquot really needto know how sloths and other

animals behave in the zoo andout in the wild to ully under-stand the plot Adding themwould just cause a two-hourlong film to eel even lengthierthan it should be

Te addition o Anandi Pirsquosgirlriend in Pondicherry beorehe migrated is one o the moreobvious but significant differ-

ences in the film It adds anemotional depth to his adoles-cence beore he migratedto Canada and emphasizesthe pain o leaving everythingbehind in India as they leave insearch or a supposedly betteruture

Te scenes with the French cookand the Buddhist were absentrom the book Adding themallows the audience to recognise

the story in which there wasa switch between the animalsand actual people on the simt-sum and find the connectionbetween the people and theanimals that corresponded withtheir personalities

A difference can also be seen inthe scene where the oil tanker

appeared as well In the bookthe oil tanker is right in ront oPi and almost crashes into himwhich is quite dramatic How-ever the oil tanker passes Pi inthe horizon in the film subtlyemphasizing the fleetingness ohope during absolute adversity

Tere is also a part where Piseems to have lost his sanityas he and Richard Parker wentblind Pi also met a ellow sur-

vivor on the sea which couldbe a hallucination Tis sceneshouldnrsquot have been omittedrom the film it could add alittle more flavour to Pirsquos jour-ney on the silver screen as itrsquosprobably be true or anyone outon the sea or seven months

Te film also excluded the many

gory and gruelling parts o thebook Pi killing turtles anddrink their blood isnrsquot exactly agood shot However this san-itizes the story or people whohavenrsquot read the book yetshielding them rom the darkerrealities o surviving the harshconditions o the sea

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Conclusion Life of Pi is definitely a rare marvel that canprooundly move onersquos perspective on lie Itspowerul story o a boy and a Bengal tiger setagainst the ever-changing Pacific Ocean shedslight on the things in lie that we ofen ignoreIt asks us to reflect on ourselves our lie andour religion and acknowledge their imperec-tions and try to accept and be content withthem despite their imperections

Right at the beginning it unashamedlydeclares a challenge to make you believe inGod It is rare or a book to proess such amonumental dare even beore its story startsit might even deter some rom reading onAlthough in the end it does ulfil its objectivesto some extent but it may have all short to asceptical atheist

Te book is an intriguing cacophony o zoologyphilosophy and theology with a strange dose oadventure and reality It satisfies your readingpleasure while presenting a ew questions youseldom ask yoursel As you delve through thepages to uncover whatrsquos going to happen to Pinext the book slips in a ew words o wisdomthat will let you wonder about the meaning olie both the bookrsquos and yours

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Martel Yann (2001) Life of Pi New York Knop Canada

Christophe Jean-Castille (2012)Te Making of Life of Pi A FilmA Journey Harper Design

GROSS M (2008) Pondicherryrsquos French ConnectionTe New York imes 30th March

MUNOZ M (2012) lsquoLie o PirsquoComparing Ang Leersquos Film With Yann Martelrsquos Novel

Te Daily Beast

21st NovemberAvailable romhttpwwwthedailybeastcomarticles20121121lie-o-pi-comparing-ang-lee-s-film-with-yann-martel-s-novelhtml[Accessed 8th November 2013]

KEEGAN R(2012)James Cameron lsquoLie o Pirsquo lsquobreaks the paradigmrsquoo 3-D movies Los Angeles imes 2nd NovemberAvailable rom

httparticleslatimescom2012nov02entertainmentla-et-mn-james-cameron-lie-pi-3d-20121101[Accessed 12th November 2013]

Sparknotes Editors (2006) SparkNote on Life of Pi [Online]

Available rom httpwwwsparknotescomlitlieopi[Accessed October 30 2013]

Wickman K (2012)Te 32 Differences Between lsquoLife of Pirsquo Book and Movie[Online]Available romhttpwwwfilmcommoviesdifferences-between-lie-o-pi-book-and-movie[Accessed 16th November 2013

BRADSHER K (2003)Pondicherry Journal Te Zoo Is Fiction but It Just Might Spring to LieTe New York imes 20th FebruaryAvailable romhttpwwwnytimescom20030220worldpondicherry-journal-the-zoo-

is-fiction-but-it-just-might-spring-to-liehtml[Accessed 22nd November 2013]

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NARRATOR Te story is mainly narrated by Pi himsel Although there are aew chapters in which the Author is narrating the story o his ate-ul meeting with Pi When Pi narrates the story o his entire liehe invites you into it allowing an almost personal and intimatelook into his lie

Just afer simtsum sank he takes on a darker tone as he grappleswith the horrible truth that his amily is lost like any traumatizedsurvivor o a shipwreck would and a earul tone when he wit-nessed the hyena attacking the zebra and the orang utan

Afer getting used to the elements Pi narrates his days adrif inthe Pacific Ocean in manner that sometimes can be quite humor-ous and anecdotal as he learns survival at the mercy o the PacificOcean and a Royal Bengal tiger

Pirsquos breezy and optimistic tone allows readers to easily sink into

the story It captures the interest o the attention o the reader in analmost subconscious way enticing the rantic flipping o pages justto discover all the wonders in his almost impossible tale o survivalwithout eeling too emotionally drained

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ANALOGIES

Te most powerul analogy is the floating island It represents themyriad o religions that we currently have Te trees on the island

represents the leaders o religions while the Meerkats the ollow-ers As it preys at night it shows that religion can disjoint us romreality i wersquore not too careul with it However religion does offersolace during times o despair it can be seen as it offers shelter andsustenance or him and Richard Parker

Another analogy is the lieboat which represents our journeythrough lie and its various passengers our critics in lie Tehyena and Richard Parker creates chaos on the lieboat which isanalogous to how people can ofen bring us down Pi also had toweather the elements which shows that that we have to weather

challenges in lie as well

Te two Japanese officials can be seen as the audience themselvesAs the two attempt to make sense o Pirsquos preposterous story theaudience are also choosing which story to believe the one with theanimals or the one without

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C ENTRAL T HEMES

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Te novel deals with religionSometimes it divides us as wefight over the differences o oth-ers When the story tells o the

bickering between the imampriest and the Hindu pandit it shows how different variousreligions can be and yet unveilsall the similarities they haveIt seems trivial to ocus on thenegative traits o other religionswhen they are merely justdifferent rather than negativeWe are asked to at least be

open-minded to other religionbecause we all have our ownGods to guide us

Te book in a sense is a ser-mon a scripture o a verymodern origin As Pi avidlyollows the three religions hisspirituality grew and evolvedwhich became instrumental tohis survival across the Pacific

Ocean Itrsquos littered throughoutthe story a God (or Gods) with-in ourselves helps us grow andmature offering warmth amidstour sometimes chaotic lives

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either drafed up by ourselves orthrown at us by lie the mo-ment it suraces Resilience ismore than just a mere skill to besharpened or a rare talent givento a gifed ew it is a way o lienot a way to deal with lie

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A call that reaches out to us aswe sometimes wallow trappedin excuses ears and restrictionsthat lie throws at us relentlesslyIt is a call to us to rise up romthe challenges o lie that makes

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Although itrsquos barely the smart-est move in lie still it is therare eats o kindness that kept

humanity alive throughoutcenturies o tragedies As Pisacrifices a portion o his rationsto Richard Parker he builds aconnection with him A bondthough it ended abruptly wasone o the ew things that stavedoff death or both o them

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Martel handles the plot in a very smooth light-hearted way Reading thebook is akin to a day o smooth sailing accompanied by gorgeous weatherTough there are the more suspenseul and darker chapters as well Mar-telrsquos writing allows readers to immerse into the dramatic highs and lows oPirsquos adventure without eeling too exhausted

Martel almost entirely uses proper and simple English except or the

names o the various Indian ood and Hindu Gods which thankully isusually accompanied with a brie explanation Te absence o racial orcultural slangs allows the reader to relate with the story easily and quicklywithout resorting to Google the various obscure names or terms

Martelrsquos writing can be ruminative and philosophical the story is dottedwith plenty o inspiring quotes that could last or more than a lietimeand here are some that stood out

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Representationof Reality

Te story plays with both the whimsicality o fiction and theseriousness o reality Everything rom Pirsquos childhood and liein Pondicherry to the practices o the three religion Pi ollowsclosely mirrors our reality even the scenic landscape o Munnarthat Pi visited during a amily vacation and the once elegant(now in the midst o resuscitation) Parisian swimming pool thatPi was named afer Piscine Molitor actually exist

However how ofen is that an Indian boy is actually namedafer a swimming pool in Paris and having to deal with a Bengal

tiger in middle o the Pacific Ocean or months on end Teseand other extremely circumstantial details are barely possibleand yet Martel was able to present them naturally By addingsubtle flavours and spices he turns an extraordinary story to aseemingly ordinary but nonetheless interesting one

World ViewTe story revels in a world that is ull o endless wonders andpossible impossibilities From living briefly on a carnivorousisland that seeps out acid to catch its prey rom the ocean and

its ground to the magnificence o a Bengal tiger to surviving vicious storms with insufficient rations the story depicts thewondrous brilliance o Mother Nature It shows the humanrsquosinstinctual thirst o overcoming insurmountable odds duringsurvival or hardships o lie

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F ILM ADAPTATION

Te film adaptation o the noveldebuted on November 2012instantly garnering widespread

acclaim rom critics and audi-ences It was directed by re-nowned film director Ang Leewith the adapted screenplay byDavid Magee

Suraj Sharmarsquos immense talentshown through despite beinga total newcomer He sin-gle-handedly bore the weighto the majority o the filmrsquosproduction Under Ang Leersquoswatchul guidance he embod-ied the title character with aperormance that wowed criticsOther talented cast membersinclude Irran Khan Rae SpallGeacuterard Depardieu abu andAdil Hussain

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tions the film is added with apinch o quintessential Hol-lywood magic in the ormo striking visual effects andemotionally charged scenes andtheme music which makes thestory even more powerul How-ever the film lost some o Mar-telrsquos lighter touch But with Leersquosdirection the film truly brought

out the magic and imagery othe original without allowingthe audience to compare it withthe original

Te cinematography is superb

and the visual effects a hugebulk o the film is stunninglyconvincing Especially the visu-al effects on the sea itrsquos depictedas a living breathing entity withits own set o emotions ratherthan just a prop on the set Itshows both the beautiully calmside and dangerously uriousside oceans have that we donrsquot

normally encounter

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resoundingly antastic homageto the original book successul-ly condensing the essence o theoriginal into a two-hour visualmasterpiece while also divingthe audience into the deepermeanings o lie Itrsquos very rareor a film adaptation to pull offmirroring the original withoutchanging much o the original

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As with most film adaptationsgo they are bound to be di-erent rom the original mate-rial Life of Pi is no exception

though the differences withinthe film are subtle enough tohave little impact on the storybut noticeable enough

Te authorrsquos note and most oPirsquos explanation on zoology hasbeen lef out Itrsquos a logical deci-sion as people donrsquot really needto know how sloths and other

animals behave in the zoo andout in the wild to ully under-stand the plot Adding themwould just cause a two-hourlong film to eel even lengthierthan it should be

Te addition o Anandi Pirsquosgirlriend in Pondicherry beorehe migrated is one o the moreobvious but significant differ-

ences in the film It adds anemotional depth to his adoles-cence beore he migratedto Canada and emphasizesthe pain o leaving everythingbehind in India as they leave insearch or a supposedly betteruture

Te scenes with the French cookand the Buddhist were absentrom the book Adding themallows the audience to recognise

the story in which there wasa switch between the animalsand actual people on the simt-sum and find the connectionbetween the people and theanimals that corresponded withtheir personalities

A difference can also be seen inthe scene where the oil tanker

appeared as well In the bookthe oil tanker is right in ront oPi and almost crashes into himwhich is quite dramatic How-ever the oil tanker passes Pi inthe horizon in the film subtlyemphasizing the fleetingness ohope during absolute adversity

Tere is also a part where Piseems to have lost his sanityas he and Richard Parker wentblind Pi also met a ellow sur-

vivor on the sea which couldbe a hallucination Tis sceneshouldnrsquot have been omittedrom the film it could add alittle more flavour to Pirsquos jour-ney on the silver screen as itrsquosprobably be true or anyone outon the sea or seven months

Te film also excluded the many

gory and gruelling parts o thebook Pi killing turtles anddrink their blood isnrsquot exactly agood shot However this san-itizes the story or people whohavenrsquot read the book yetshielding them rom the darkerrealities o surviving the harshconditions o the sea

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Conclusion Life of Pi is definitely a rare marvel that canprooundly move onersquos perspective on lie Itspowerul story o a boy and a Bengal tiger setagainst the ever-changing Pacific Ocean shedslight on the things in lie that we ofen ignoreIt asks us to reflect on ourselves our lie andour religion and acknowledge their imperec-tions and try to accept and be content withthem despite their imperections

Right at the beginning it unashamedlydeclares a challenge to make you believe inGod It is rare or a book to proess such amonumental dare even beore its story startsit might even deter some rom reading onAlthough in the end it does ulfil its objectivesto some extent but it may have all short to asceptical atheist

Te book is an intriguing cacophony o zoologyphilosophy and theology with a strange dose oadventure and reality It satisfies your readingpleasure while presenting a ew questions youseldom ask yoursel As you delve through thepages to uncover whatrsquos going to happen to Pinext the book slips in a ew words o wisdomthat will let you wonder about the meaning olie both the bookrsquos and yours

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Martel Yann (2001) Life of Pi New York Knop Canada

Christophe Jean-Castille (2012)Te Making of Life of Pi A FilmA Journey Harper Design

GROSS M (2008) Pondicherryrsquos French ConnectionTe New York imes 30th March

MUNOZ M (2012) lsquoLie o PirsquoComparing Ang Leersquos Film With Yann Martelrsquos Novel

Te Daily Beast

21st NovemberAvailable romhttpwwwthedailybeastcomarticles20121121lie-o-pi-comparing-ang-lee-s-film-with-yann-martel-s-novelhtml[Accessed 8th November 2013]

KEEGAN R(2012)James Cameron lsquoLie o Pirsquo lsquobreaks the paradigmrsquoo 3-D movies Los Angeles imes 2nd NovemberAvailable rom

httparticleslatimescom2012nov02entertainmentla-et-mn-james-cameron-lie-pi-3d-20121101[Accessed 12th November 2013]

Sparknotes Editors (2006) SparkNote on Life of Pi [Online]

Available rom httpwwwsparknotescomlitlieopi[Accessed October 30 2013]

Wickman K (2012)Te 32 Differences Between lsquoLife of Pirsquo Book and Movie[Online]Available romhttpwwwfilmcommoviesdifferences-between-lie-o-pi-book-and-movie[Accessed 16th November 2013

BRADSHER K (2003)Pondicherry Journal Te Zoo Is Fiction but It Just Might Spring to LieTe New York imes 20th FebruaryAvailable romhttpwwwnytimescom20030220worldpondicherry-journal-the-zoo-

is-fiction-but-it-just-might-spring-to-liehtml[Accessed 22nd November 2013]

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NARRATOR Te story is mainly narrated by Pi himsel Although there are aew chapters in which the Author is narrating the story o his ate-ul meeting with Pi When Pi narrates the story o his entire liehe invites you into it allowing an almost personal and intimatelook into his lie

Just afer simtsum sank he takes on a darker tone as he grappleswith the horrible truth that his amily is lost like any traumatizedsurvivor o a shipwreck would and a earul tone when he wit-nessed the hyena attacking the zebra and the orang utan

Afer getting used to the elements Pi narrates his days adrif inthe Pacific Ocean in manner that sometimes can be quite humor-ous and anecdotal as he learns survival at the mercy o the PacificOcean and a Royal Bengal tiger

Pirsquos breezy and optimistic tone allows readers to easily sink into

the story It captures the interest o the attention o the reader in analmost subconscious way enticing the rantic flipping o pages justto discover all the wonders in his almost impossible tale o survivalwithout eeling too emotionally drained

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ANALOGIES

Te most powerul analogy is the floating island It represents themyriad o religions that we currently have Te trees on the island

represents the leaders o religions while the Meerkats the ollow-ers As it preys at night it shows that religion can disjoint us romreality i wersquore not too careul with it However religion does offersolace during times o despair it can be seen as it offers shelter andsustenance or him and Richard Parker

Another analogy is the lieboat which represents our journeythrough lie and its various passengers our critics in lie Tehyena and Richard Parker creates chaos on the lieboat which isanalogous to how people can ofen bring us down Pi also had toweather the elements which shows that that we have to weather

challenges in lie as well

Te two Japanese officials can be seen as the audience themselvesAs the two attempt to make sense o Pirsquos preposterous story theaudience are also choosing which story to believe the one with theanimals or the one without

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C ENTRAL T HEMES

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Te novel deals with religionSometimes it divides us as wefight over the differences o oth-ers When the story tells o the

bickering between the imampriest and the Hindu pandit it shows how different variousreligions can be and yet unveilsall the similarities they haveIt seems trivial to ocus on thenegative traits o other religionswhen they are merely justdifferent rather than negativeWe are asked to at least be

open-minded to other religionbecause we all have our ownGods to guide us

Te book in a sense is a ser-mon a scripture o a verymodern origin As Pi avidlyollows the three religions hisspirituality grew and evolvedwhich became instrumental tohis survival across the Pacific

Ocean Itrsquos littered throughoutthe story a God (or Gods) with-in ourselves helps us grow andmature offering warmth amidstour sometimes chaotic lives

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either drafed up by ourselves orthrown at us by lie the mo-ment it suraces Resilience ismore than just a mere skill to besharpened or a rare talent givento a gifed ew it is a way o lienot a way to deal with lie

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A call that reaches out to us aswe sometimes wallow trappedin excuses ears and restrictionsthat lie throws at us relentlesslyIt is a call to us to rise up romthe challenges o lie that makes

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Although itrsquos barely the smart-est move in lie still it is therare eats o kindness that kept

humanity alive throughoutcenturies o tragedies As Pisacrifices a portion o his rationsto Richard Parker he builds aconnection with him A bondthough it ended abruptly wasone o the ew things that stavedoff death or both o them

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Martel handles the plot in a very smooth light-hearted way Reading thebook is akin to a day o smooth sailing accompanied by gorgeous weatherTough there are the more suspenseul and darker chapters as well Mar-telrsquos writing allows readers to immerse into the dramatic highs and lows oPirsquos adventure without eeling too exhausted

Martel almost entirely uses proper and simple English except or the

names o the various Indian ood and Hindu Gods which thankully isusually accompanied with a brie explanation Te absence o racial orcultural slangs allows the reader to relate with the story easily and quicklywithout resorting to Google the various obscure names or terms

Martelrsquos writing can be ruminative and philosophical the story is dottedwith plenty o inspiring quotes that could last or more than a lietimeand here are some that stood out

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Representationof Reality

Te story plays with both the whimsicality o fiction and theseriousness o reality Everything rom Pirsquos childhood and liein Pondicherry to the practices o the three religion Pi ollowsclosely mirrors our reality even the scenic landscape o Munnarthat Pi visited during a amily vacation and the once elegant(now in the midst o resuscitation) Parisian swimming pool thatPi was named afer Piscine Molitor actually exist

However how ofen is that an Indian boy is actually namedafer a swimming pool in Paris and having to deal with a Bengal

tiger in middle o the Pacific Ocean or months on end Teseand other extremely circumstantial details are barely possibleand yet Martel was able to present them naturally By addingsubtle flavours and spices he turns an extraordinary story to aseemingly ordinary but nonetheless interesting one

World ViewTe story revels in a world that is ull o endless wonders andpossible impossibilities From living briefly on a carnivorousisland that seeps out acid to catch its prey rom the ocean and

its ground to the magnificence o a Bengal tiger to surviving vicious storms with insufficient rations the story depicts thewondrous brilliance o Mother Nature It shows the humanrsquosinstinctual thirst o overcoming insurmountable odds duringsurvival or hardships o lie

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F ILM ADAPTATION

Te film adaptation o the noveldebuted on November 2012instantly garnering widespread

acclaim rom critics and audi-ences It was directed by re-nowned film director Ang Leewith the adapted screenplay byDavid Magee

Suraj Sharmarsquos immense talentshown through despite beinga total newcomer He sin-gle-handedly bore the weighto the majority o the filmrsquosproduction Under Ang Leersquoswatchul guidance he embod-ied the title character with aperormance that wowed criticsOther talented cast membersinclude Irran Khan Rae SpallGeacuterard Depardieu abu andAdil Hussain

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tions the film is added with apinch o quintessential Hol-lywood magic in the ormo striking visual effects andemotionally charged scenes andtheme music which makes thestory even more powerul How-ever the film lost some o Mar-telrsquos lighter touch But with Leersquosdirection the film truly brought

out the magic and imagery othe original without allowingthe audience to compare it withthe original

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normally encounter

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resoundingly antastic homageto the original book successul-ly condensing the essence o theoriginal into a two-hour visualmasterpiece while also divingthe audience into the deepermeanings o lie Itrsquos very rareor a film adaptation to pull offmirroring the original withoutchanging much o the original

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As with most film adaptationsgo they are bound to be di-erent rom the original mate-rial Life of Pi is no exception

though the differences withinthe film are subtle enough tohave little impact on the storybut noticeable enough

Te authorrsquos note and most oPirsquos explanation on zoology hasbeen lef out Itrsquos a logical deci-sion as people donrsquot really needto know how sloths and other

animals behave in the zoo andout in the wild to ully under-stand the plot Adding themwould just cause a two-hourlong film to eel even lengthierthan it should be

Te addition o Anandi Pirsquosgirlriend in Pondicherry beorehe migrated is one o the moreobvious but significant differ-

ences in the film It adds anemotional depth to his adoles-cence beore he migratedto Canada and emphasizesthe pain o leaving everythingbehind in India as they leave insearch or a supposedly betteruture

Te scenes with the French cookand the Buddhist were absentrom the book Adding themallows the audience to recognise

the story in which there wasa switch between the animalsand actual people on the simt-sum and find the connectionbetween the people and theanimals that corresponded withtheir personalities

A difference can also be seen inthe scene where the oil tanker

appeared as well In the bookthe oil tanker is right in ront oPi and almost crashes into himwhich is quite dramatic How-ever the oil tanker passes Pi inthe horizon in the film subtlyemphasizing the fleetingness ohope during absolute adversity

Tere is also a part where Piseems to have lost his sanityas he and Richard Parker wentblind Pi also met a ellow sur-

vivor on the sea which couldbe a hallucination Tis sceneshouldnrsquot have been omittedrom the film it could add alittle more flavour to Pirsquos jour-ney on the silver screen as itrsquosprobably be true or anyone outon the sea or seven months

Te film also excluded the many

gory and gruelling parts o thebook Pi killing turtles anddrink their blood isnrsquot exactly agood shot However this san-itizes the story or people whohavenrsquot read the book yetshielding them rom the darkerrealities o surviving the harshconditions o the sea

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Conclusion Life of Pi is definitely a rare marvel that canprooundly move onersquos perspective on lie Itspowerul story o a boy and a Bengal tiger setagainst the ever-changing Pacific Ocean shedslight on the things in lie that we ofen ignoreIt asks us to reflect on ourselves our lie andour religion and acknowledge their imperec-tions and try to accept and be content withthem despite their imperections

Right at the beginning it unashamedlydeclares a challenge to make you believe inGod It is rare or a book to proess such amonumental dare even beore its story startsit might even deter some rom reading onAlthough in the end it does ulfil its objectivesto some extent but it may have all short to asceptical atheist

Te book is an intriguing cacophony o zoologyphilosophy and theology with a strange dose oadventure and reality It satisfies your readingpleasure while presenting a ew questions youseldom ask yoursel As you delve through thepages to uncover whatrsquos going to happen to Pinext the book slips in a ew words o wisdomthat will let you wonder about the meaning olie both the bookrsquos and yours

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Martel Yann (2001) Life of Pi New York Knop Canada

Christophe Jean-Castille (2012)Te Making of Life of Pi A FilmA Journey Harper Design

GROSS M (2008) Pondicherryrsquos French ConnectionTe New York imes 30th March

MUNOZ M (2012) lsquoLie o PirsquoComparing Ang Leersquos Film With Yann Martelrsquos Novel

Te Daily Beast

21st NovemberAvailable romhttpwwwthedailybeastcomarticles20121121lie-o-pi-comparing-ang-lee-s-film-with-yann-martel-s-novelhtml[Accessed 8th November 2013]

KEEGAN R(2012)James Cameron lsquoLie o Pirsquo lsquobreaks the paradigmrsquoo 3-D movies Los Angeles imes 2nd NovemberAvailable rom

httparticleslatimescom2012nov02entertainmentla-et-mn-james-cameron-lie-pi-3d-20121101[Accessed 12th November 2013]

Sparknotes Editors (2006) SparkNote on Life of Pi [Online]

Available rom httpwwwsparknotescomlitlieopi[Accessed October 30 2013]

Wickman K (2012)Te 32 Differences Between lsquoLife of Pirsquo Book and Movie[Online]Available romhttpwwwfilmcommoviesdifferences-between-lie-o-pi-book-and-movie[Accessed 16th November 2013

BRADSHER K (2003)Pondicherry Journal Te Zoo Is Fiction but It Just Might Spring to LieTe New York imes 20th FebruaryAvailable romhttpwwwnytimescom20030220worldpondicherry-journal-the-zoo-

is-fiction-but-it-just-might-spring-to-liehtml[Accessed 22nd November 2013]

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ANALOGIES

Te most powerul analogy is the floating island It represents themyriad o religions that we currently have Te trees on the island

represents the leaders o religions while the Meerkats the ollow-ers As it preys at night it shows that religion can disjoint us romreality i wersquore not too careul with it However religion does offersolace during times o despair it can be seen as it offers shelter andsustenance or him and Richard Parker

Another analogy is the lieboat which represents our journeythrough lie and its various passengers our critics in lie Tehyena and Richard Parker creates chaos on the lieboat which isanalogous to how people can ofen bring us down Pi also had toweather the elements which shows that that we have to weather

challenges in lie as well

Te two Japanese officials can be seen as the audience themselvesAs the two attempt to make sense o Pirsquos preposterous story theaudience are also choosing which story to believe the one with theanimals or the one without

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C ENTRAL T HEMES

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Te novel deals with religionSometimes it divides us as wefight over the differences o oth-ers When the story tells o the

bickering between the imampriest and the Hindu pandit it shows how different variousreligions can be and yet unveilsall the similarities they haveIt seems trivial to ocus on thenegative traits o other religionswhen they are merely justdifferent rather than negativeWe are asked to at least be

open-minded to other religionbecause we all have our ownGods to guide us

Te book in a sense is a ser-mon a scripture o a verymodern origin As Pi avidlyollows the three religions hisspirituality grew and evolvedwhich became instrumental tohis survival across the Pacific

Ocean Itrsquos littered throughoutthe story a God (or Gods) with-in ourselves helps us grow andmature offering warmth amidstour sometimes chaotic lives

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A call that reaches out to us aswe sometimes wallow trappedin excuses ears and restrictionsthat lie throws at us relentlesslyIt is a call to us to rise up romthe challenges o lie that makes

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Although itrsquos barely the smart-est move in lie still it is therare eats o kindness that kept

humanity alive throughoutcenturies o tragedies As Pisacrifices a portion o his rationsto Richard Parker he builds aconnection with him A bondthough it ended abruptly wasone o the ew things that stavedoff death or both o them

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Martel handles the plot in a very smooth light-hearted way Reading thebook is akin to a day o smooth sailing accompanied by gorgeous weatherTough there are the more suspenseul and darker chapters as well Mar-telrsquos writing allows readers to immerse into the dramatic highs and lows oPirsquos adventure without eeling too exhausted

Martel almost entirely uses proper and simple English except or the

names o the various Indian ood and Hindu Gods which thankully isusually accompanied with a brie explanation Te absence o racial orcultural slangs allows the reader to relate with the story easily and quicklywithout resorting to Google the various obscure names or terms

Martelrsquos writing can be ruminative and philosophical the story is dottedwith plenty o inspiring quotes that could last or more than a lietimeand here are some that stood out

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Representationof Reality

Te story plays with both the whimsicality o fiction and theseriousness o reality Everything rom Pirsquos childhood and liein Pondicherry to the practices o the three religion Pi ollowsclosely mirrors our reality even the scenic landscape o Munnarthat Pi visited during a amily vacation and the once elegant(now in the midst o resuscitation) Parisian swimming pool thatPi was named afer Piscine Molitor actually exist

However how ofen is that an Indian boy is actually namedafer a swimming pool in Paris and having to deal with a Bengal

tiger in middle o the Pacific Ocean or months on end Teseand other extremely circumstantial details are barely possibleand yet Martel was able to present them naturally By addingsubtle flavours and spices he turns an extraordinary story to aseemingly ordinary but nonetheless interesting one

World ViewTe story revels in a world that is ull o endless wonders andpossible impossibilities From living briefly on a carnivorousisland that seeps out acid to catch its prey rom the ocean and

its ground to the magnificence o a Bengal tiger to surviving vicious storms with insufficient rations the story depicts thewondrous brilliance o Mother Nature It shows the humanrsquosinstinctual thirst o overcoming insurmountable odds duringsurvival or hardships o lie

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F ILM ADAPTATION

Te film adaptation o the noveldebuted on November 2012instantly garnering widespread

acclaim rom critics and audi-ences It was directed by re-nowned film director Ang Leewith the adapted screenplay byDavid Magee

Suraj Sharmarsquos immense talentshown through despite beinga total newcomer He sin-gle-handedly bore the weighto the majority o the filmrsquosproduction Under Ang Leersquoswatchul guidance he embod-ied the title character with aperormance that wowed criticsOther talented cast membersinclude Irran Khan Rae SpallGeacuterard Depardieu abu andAdil Hussain

O course like most adapta-

tions the film is added with apinch o quintessential Hol-lywood magic in the ormo striking visual effects andemotionally charged scenes andtheme music which makes thestory even more powerul How-ever the film lost some o Mar-telrsquos lighter touch But with Leersquosdirection the film truly brought

out the magic and imagery othe original without allowingthe audience to compare it withthe original

Te cinematography is superb

and the visual effects a hugebulk o the film is stunninglyconvincing Especially the visu-al effects on the sea itrsquos depictedas a living breathing entity withits own set o emotions ratherthan just a prop on the set Itshows both the beautiully calmside and dangerously uriousside oceans have that we donrsquot

normally encounter

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resoundingly antastic homageto the original book successul-ly condensing the essence o theoriginal into a two-hour visualmasterpiece while also divingthe audience into the deepermeanings o lie Itrsquos very rareor a film adaptation to pull offmirroring the original withoutchanging much o the original

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As with most film adaptationsgo they are bound to be di-erent rom the original mate-rial Life of Pi is no exception

though the differences withinthe film are subtle enough tohave little impact on the storybut noticeable enough

Te authorrsquos note and most oPirsquos explanation on zoology hasbeen lef out Itrsquos a logical deci-sion as people donrsquot really needto know how sloths and other

animals behave in the zoo andout in the wild to ully under-stand the plot Adding themwould just cause a two-hourlong film to eel even lengthierthan it should be

Te addition o Anandi Pirsquosgirlriend in Pondicherry beorehe migrated is one o the moreobvious but significant differ-

ences in the film It adds anemotional depth to his adoles-cence beore he migratedto Canada and emphasizesthe pain o leaving everythingbehind in India as they leave insearch or a supposedly betteruture

Te scenes with the French cookand the Buddhist were absentrom the book Adding themallows the audience to recognise

the story in which there wasa switch between the animalsand actual people on the simt-sum and find the connectionbetween the people and theanimals that corresponded withtheir personalities

A difference can also be seen inthe scene where the oil tanker

appeared as well In the bookthe oil tanker is right in ront oPi and almost crashes into himwhich is quite dramatic How-ever the oil tanker passes Pi inthe horizon in the film subtlyemphasizing the fleetingness ohope during absolute adversity

Tere is also a part where Piseems to have lost his sanityas he and Richard Parker wentblind Pi also met a ellow sur-

vivor on the sea which couldbe a hallucination Tis sceneshouldnrsquot have been omittedrom the film it could add alittle more flavour to Pirsquos jour-ney on the silver screen as itrsquosprobably be true or anyone outon the sea or seven months

Te film also excluded the many

gory and gruelling parts o thebook Pi killing turtles anddrink their blood isnrsquot exactly agood shot However this san-itizes the story or people whohavenrsquot read the book yetshielding them rom the darkerrealities o surviving the harshconditions o the sea

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Conclusion Life of Pi is definitely a rare marvel that canprooundly move onersquos perspective on lie Itspowerul story o a boy and a Bengal tiger setagainst the ever-changing Pacific Ocean shedslight on the things in lie that we ofen ignoreIt asks us to reflect on ourselves our lie andour religion and acknowledge their imperec-tions and try to accept and be content withthem despite their imperections

Right at the beginning it unashamedlydeclares a challenge to make you believe inGod It is rare or a book to proess such amonumental dare even beore its story startsit might even deter some rom reading onAlthough in the end it does ulfil its objectivesto some extent but it may have all short to asceptical atheist

Te book is an intriguing cacophony o zoologyphilosophy and theology with a strange dose oadventure and reality It satisfies your readingpleasure while presenting a ew questions youseldom ask yoursel As you delve through thepages to uncover whatrsquos going to happen to Pinext the book slips in a ew words o wisdomthat will let you wonder about the meaning olie both the bookrsquos and yours

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Martel Yann (2001) Life of Pi New York Knop Canada

Christophe Jean-Castille (2012)Te Making of Life of Pi A FilmA Journey Harper Design

GROSS M (2008) Pondicherryrsquos French ConnectionTe New York imes 30th March

MUNOZ M (2012) lsquoLie o PirsquoComparing Ang Leersquos Film With Yann Martelrsquos Novel

Te Daily Beast

21st NovemberAvailable romhttpwwwthedailybeastcomarticles20121121lie-o-pi-comparing-ang-lee-s-film-with-yann-martel-s-novelhtml[Accessed 8th November 2013]

KEEGAN R(2012)James Cameron lsquoLie o Pirsquo lsquobreaks the paradigmrsquoo 3-D movies Los Angeles imes 2nd NovemberAvailable rom

httparticleslatimescom2012nov02entertainmentla-et-mn-james-cameron-lie-pi-3d-20121101[Accessed 12th November 2013]

Sparknotes Editors (2006) SparkNote on Life of Pi [Online]

Available rom httpwwwsparknotescomlitlieopi[Accessed October 30 2013]

Wickman K (2012)Te 32 Differences Between lsquoLife of Pirsquo Book and Movie[Online]Available romhttpwwwfilmcommoviesdifferences-between-lie-o-pi-book-and-movie[Accessed 16th November 2013

BRADSHER K (2003)Pondicherry Journal Te Zoo Is Fiction but It Just Might Spring to LieTe New York imes 20th FebruaryAvailable romhttpwwwnytimescom20030220worldpondicherry-journal-the-zoo-

is-fiction-but-it-just-might-spring-to-liehtml[Accessed 22nd November 2013]

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C ENTRAL T HEMES

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Te novel deals with religionSometimes it divides us as wefight over the differences o oth-ers When the story tells o the

bickering between the imampriest and the Hindu pandit it shows how different variousreligions can be and yet unveilsall the similarities they haveIt seems trivial to ocus on thenegative traits o other religionswhen they are merely justdifferent rather than negativeWe are asked to at least be

open-minded to other religionbecause we all have our ownGods to guide us

Te book in a sense is a ser-mon a scripture o a verymodern origin As Pi avidlyollows the three religions hisspirituality grew and evolvedwhich became instrumental tohis survival across the Pacific

Ocean Itrsquos littered throughoutthe story a God (or Gods) with-in ourselves helps us grow andmature offering warmth amidstour sometimes chaotic lives

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A call that reaches out to us aswe sometimes wallow trappedin excuses ears and restrictionsthat lie throws at us relentlesslyIt is a call to us to rise up romthe challenges o lie that makes

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Although itrsquos barely the smart-est move in lie still it is therare eats o kindness that kept

humanity alive throughoutcenturies o tragedies As Pisacrifices a portion o his rationsto Richard Parker he builds aconnection with him A bondthough it ended abruptly wasone o the ew things that stavedoff death or both o them

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Martel handles the plot in a very smooth light-hearted way Reading thebook is akin to a day o smooth sailing accompanied by gorgeous weatherTough there are the more suspenseul and darker chapters as well Mar-telrsquos writing allows readers to immerse into the dramatic highs and lows oPirsquos adventure without eeling too exhausted

Martel almost entirely uses proper and simple English except or the

names o the various Indian ood and Hindu Gods which thankully isusually accompanied with a brie explanation Te absence o racial orcultural slangs allows the reader to relate with the story easily and quicklywithout resorting to Google the various obscure names or terms

Martelrsquos writing can be ruminative and philosophical the story is dottedwith plenty o inspiring quotes that could last or more than a lietimeand here are some that stood out

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Representationof Reality

Te story plays with both the whimsicality o fiction and theseriousness o reality Everything rom Pirsquos childhood and liein Pondicherry to the practices o the three religion Pi ollowsclosely mirrors our reality even the scenic landscape o Munnarthat Pi visited during a amily vacation and the once elegant(now in the midst o resuscitation) Parisian swimming pool thatPi was named afer Piscine Molitor actually exist

However how ofen is that an Indian boy is actually namedafer a swimming pool in Paris and having to deal with a Bengal

tiger in middle o the Pacific Ocean or months on end Teseand other extremely circumstantial details are barely possibleand yet Martel was able to present them naturally By addingsubtle flavours and spices he turns an extraordinary story to aseemingly ordinary but nonetheless interesting one

World ViewTe story revels in a world that is ull o endless wonders andpossible impossibilities From living briefly on a carnivorousisland that seeps out acid to catch its prey rom the ocean and

its ground to the magnificence o a Bengal tiger to surviving vicious storms with insufficient rations the story depicts thewondrous brilliance o Mother Nature It shows the humanrsquosinstinctual thirst o overcoming insurmountable odds duringsurvival or hardships o lie

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F ILM ADAPTATION

Te film adaptation o the noveldebuted on November 2012instantly garnering widespread

acclaim rom critics and audi-ences It was directed by re-nowned film director Ang Leewith the adapted screenplay byDavid Magee

Suraj Sharmarsquos immense talentshown through despite beinga total newcomer He sin-gle-handedly bore the weighto the majority o the filmrsquosproduction Under Ang Leersquoswatchul guidance he embod-ied the title character with aperormance that wowed criticsOther talented cast membersinclude Irran Khan Rae SpallGeacuterard Depardieu abu andAdil Hussain

O course like most adapta-

tions the film is added with apinch o quintessential Hol-lywood magic in the ormo striking visual effects andemotionally charged scenes andtheme music which makes thestory even more powerul How-ever the film lost some o Mar-telrsquos lighter touch But with Leersquosdirection the film truly brought

out the magic and imagery othe original without allowingthe audience to compare it withthe original

Te cinematography is superb

and the visual effects a hugebulk o the film is stunninglyconvincing Especially the visu-al effects on the sea itrsquos depictedas a living breathing entity withits own set o emotions ratherthan just a prop on the set Itshows both the beautiully calmside and dangerously uriousside oceans have that we donrsquot

normally encounter

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As with most film adaptationsgo they are bound to be di-erent rom the original mate-rial Life of Pi is no exception

though the differences withinthe film are subtle enough tohave little impact on the storybut noticeable enough

Te authorrsquos note and most oPirsquos explanation on zoology hasbeen lef out Itrsquos a logical deci-sion as people donrsquot really needto know how sloths and other

animals behave in the zoo andout in the wild to ully under-stand the plot Adding themwould just cause a two-hourlong film to eel even lengthierthan it should be

Te addition o Anandi Pirsquosgirlriend in Pondicherry beorehe migrated is one o the moreobvious but significant differ-

ences in the film It adds anemotional depth to his adoles-cence beore he migratedto Canada and emphasizesthe pain o leaving everythingbehind in India as they leave insearch or a supposedly betteruture

Te scenes with the French cookand the Buddhist were absentrom the book Adding themallows the audience to recognise

the story in which there wasa switch between the animalsand actual people on the simt-sum and find the connectionbetween the people and theanimals that corresponded withtheir personalities

A difference can also be seen inthe scene where the oil tanker

appeared as well In the bookthe oil tanker is right in ront oPi and almost crashes into himwhich is quite dramatic How-ever the oil tanker passes Pi inthe horizon in the film subtlyemphasizing the fleetingness ohope during absolute adversity

Tere is also a part where Piseems to have lost his sanityas he and Richard Parker wentblind Pi also met a ellow sur-

vivor on the sea which couldbe a hallucination Tis sceneshouldnrsquot have been omittedrom the film it could add alittle more flavour to Pirsquos jour-ney on the silver screen as itrsquosprobably be true or anyone outon the sea or seven months

Te film also excluded the many

gory and gruelling parts o thebook Pi killing turtles anddrink their blood isnrsquot exactly agood shot However this san-itizes the story or people whohavenrsquot read the book yetshielding them rom the darkerrealities o surviving the harshconditions o the sea

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Conclusion Life of Pi is definitely a rare marvel that canprooundly move onersquos perspective on lie Itspowerul story o a boy and a Bengal tiger setagainst the ever-changing Pacific Ocean shedslight on the things in lie that we ofen ignoreIt asks us to reflect on ourselves our lie andour religion and acknowledge their imperec-tions and try to accept and be content withthem despite their imperections

Right at the beginning it unashamedlydeclares a challenge to make you believe inGod It is rare or a book to proess such amonumental dare even beore its story startsit might even deter some rom reading onAlthough in the end it does ulfil its objectivesto some extent but it may have all short to asceptical atheist

Te book is an intriguing cacophony o zoologyphilosophy and theology with a strange dose oadventure and reality It satisfies your readingpleasure while presenting a ew questions youseldom ask yoursel As you delve through thepages to uncover whatrsquos going to happen to Pinext the book slips in a ew words o wisdomthat will let you wonder about the meaning olie both the bookrsquos and yours

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Martel Yann (2001) Life of Pi New York Knop Canada

Christophe Jean-Castille (2012)Te Making of Life of Pi A FilmA Journey Harper Design

GROSS M (2008) Pondicherryrsquos French ConnectionTe New York imes 30th March

MUNOZ M (2012) lsquoLie o PirsquoComparing Ang Leersquos Film With Yann Martelrsquos Novel

Te Daily Beast

21st NovemberAvailable romhttpwwwthedailybeastcomarticles20121121lie-o-pi-comparing-ang-lee-s-film-with-yann-martel-s-novelhtml[Accessed 8th November 2013]

KEEGAN R(2012)James Cameron lsquoLie o Pirsquo lsquobreaks the paradigmrsquoo 3-D movies Los Angeles imes 2nd NovemberAvailable rom

httparticleslatimescom2012nov02entertainmentla-et-mn-james-cameron-lie-pi-3d-20121101[Accessed 12th November 2013]

Sparknotes Editors (2006) SparkNote on Life of Pi [Online]

Available rom httpwwwsparknotescomlitlieopi[Accessed October 30 2013]

Wickman K (2012)Te 32 Differences Between lsquoLife of Pirsquo Book and Movie[Online]Available romhttpwwwfilmcommoviesdifferences-between-lie-o-pi-book-and-movie[Accessed 16th November 2013

BRADSHER K (2003)Pondicherry Journal Te Zoo Is Fiction but It Just Might Spring to LieTe New York imes 20th FebruaryAvailable romhttpwwwnytimescom20030220worldpondicherry-journal-the-zoo-

is-fiction-but-it-just-might-spring-to-liehtml[Accessed 22nd November 2013]

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Martel handles the plot in a very smooth light-hearted way Reading thebook is akin to a day o smooth sailing accompanied by gorgeous weatherTough there are the more suspenseul and darker chapters as well Mar-telrsquos writing allows readers to immerse into the dramatic highs and lows oPirsquos adventure without eeling too exhausted

Martel almost entirely uses proper and simple English except or the

names o the various Indian ood and Hindu Gods which thankully isusually accompanied with a brie explanation Te absence o racial orcultural slangs allows the reader to relate with the story easily and quicklywithout resorting to Google the various obscure names or terms

Martelrsquos writing can be ruminative and philosophical the story is dottedwith plenty o inspiring quotes that could last or more than a lietimeand here are some that stood out

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Representationof Reality

Te story plays with both the whimsicality o fiction and theseriousness o reality Everything rom Pirsquos childhood and liein Pondicherry to the practices o the three religion Pi ollowsclosely mirrors our reality even the scenic landscape o Munnarthat Pi visited during a amily vacation and the once elegant(now in the midst o resuscitation) Parisian swimming pool thatPi was named afer Piscine Molitor actually exist

However how ofen is that an Indian boy is actually namedafer a swimming pool in Paris and having to deal with a Bengal

tiger in middle o the Pacific Ocean or months on end Teseand other extremely circumstantial details are barely possibleand yet Martel was able to present them naturally By addingsubtle flavours and spices he turns an extraordinary story to aseemingly ordinary but nonetheless interesting one

World ViewTe story revels in a world that is ull o endless wonders andpossible impossibilities From living briefly on a carnivorousisland that seeps out acid to catch its prey rom the ocean and

its ground to the magnificence o a Bengal tiger to surviving vicious storms with insufficient rations the story depicts thewondrous brilliance o Mother Nature It shows the humanrsquosinstinctual thirst o overcoming insurmountable odds duringsurvival or hardships o lie

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F ILM ADAPTATION

Te film adaptation o the noveldebuted on November 2012instantly garnering widespread

acclaim rom critics and audi-ences It was directed by re-nowned film director Ang Leewith the adapted screenplay byDavid Magee

Suraj Sharmarsquos immense talentshown through despite beinga total newcomer He sin-gle-handedly bore the weighto the majority o the filmrsquosproduction Under Ang Leersquoswatchul guidance he embod-ied the title character with aperormance that wowed criticsOther talented cast membersinclude Irran Khan Rae SpallGeacuterard Depardieu abu andAdil Hussain

O course like most adapta-

tions the film is added with apinch o quintessential Hol-lywood magic in the ormo striking visual effects andemotionally charged scenes andtheme music which makes thestory even more powerul How-ever the film lost some o Mar-telrsquos lighter touch But with Leersquosdirection the film truly brought

out the magic and imagery othe original without allowingthe audience to compare it withthe original

Te cinematography is superb

and the visual effects a hugebulk o the film is stunninglyconvincing Especially the visu-al effects on the sea itrsquos depictedas a living breathing entity withits own set o emotions ratherthan just a prop on the set Itshows both the beautiully calmside and dangerously uriousside oceans have that we donrsquot

normally encounter

Te film adaptation pays a

resoundingly antastic homageto the original book successul-ly condensing the essence o theoriginal into a two-hour visualmasterpiece while also divingthe audience into the deepermeanings o lie Itrsquos very rareor a film adaptation to pull offmirroring the original withoutchanging much o the original

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Legendary director Ang Lee on the set of the scene where Pilists out all the irrational figures of the nickname he coined for himself

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As with most film adaptationsgo they are bound to be di-erent rom the original mate-rial Life of Pi is no exception

though the differences withinthe film are subtle enough tohave little impact on the storybut noticeable enough

Te authorrsquos note and most oPirsquos explanation on zoology hasbeen lef out Itrsquos a logical deci-sion as people donrsquot really needto know how sloths and other

animals behave in the zoo andout in the wild to ully under-stand the plot Adding themwould just cause a two-hourlong film to eel even lengthierthan it should be

Te addition o Anandi Pirsquosgirlriend in Pondicherry beorehe migrated is one o the moreobvious but significant differ-

ences in the film It adds anemotional depth to his adoles-cence beore he migratedto Canada and emphasizesthe pain o leaving everythingbehind in India as they leave insearch or a supposedly betteruture

Te scenes with the French cookand the Buddhist were absentrom the book Adding themallows the audience to recognise

the story in which there wasa switch between the animalsand actual people on the simt-sum and find the connectionbetween the people and theanimals that corresponded withtheir personalities

A difference can also be seen inthe scene where the oil tanker

appeared as well In the bookthe oil tanker is right in ront oPi and almost crashes into himwhich is quite dramatic How-ever the oil tanker passes Pi inthe horizon in the film subtlyemphasizing the fleetingness ohope during absolute adversity

Tere is also a part where Piseems to have lost his sanityas he and Richard Parker wentblind Pi also met a ellow sur-

vivor on the sea which couldbe a hallucination Tis sceneshouldnrsquot have been omittedrom the film it could add alittle more flavour to Pirsquos jour-ney on the silver screen as itrsquosprobably be true or anyone outon the sea or seven months

Te film also excluded the many

gory and gruelling parts o thebook Pi killing turtles anddrink their blood isnrsquot exactly agood shot However this san-itizes the story or people whohavenrsquot read the book yetshielding them rom the darkerrealities o surviving the harshconditions o the sea

13

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Conclusion Life of Pi is definitely a rare marvel that canprooundly move onersquos perspective on lie Itspowerul story o a boy and a Bengal tiger setagainst the ever-changing Pacific Ocean shedslight on the things in lie that we ofen ignoreIt asks us to reflect on ourselves our lie andour religion and acknowledge their imperec-tions and try to accept and be content withthem despite their imperections

Right at the beginning it unashamedlydeclares a challenge to make you believe inGod It is rare or a book to proess such amonumental dare even beore its story startsit might even deter some rom reading onAlthough in the end it does ulfil its objectivesto some extent but it may have all short to asceptical atheist

Te book is an intriguing cacophony o zoologyphilosophy and theology with a strange dose oadventure and reality It satisfies your readingpleasure while presenting a ew questions youseldom ask yoursel As you delve through thepages to uncover whatrsquos going to happen to Pinext the book slips in a ew words o wisdomthat will let you wonder about the meaning olie both the bookrsquos and yours

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Martel Yann (2001) Life of Pi New York Knop Canada

Christophe Jean-Castille (2012)Te Making of Life of Pi A FilmA Journey Harper Design

GROSS M (2008) Pondicherryrsquos French ConnectionTe New York imes 30th March

MUNOZ M (2012) lsquoLie o PirsquoComparing Ang Leersquos Film With Yann Martelrsquos Novel

Te Daily Beast

21st NovemberAvailable romhttpwwwthedailybeastcomarticles20121121lie-o-pi-comparing-ang-lee-s-film-with-yann-martel-s-novelhtml[Accessed 8th November 2013]

KEEGAN R(2012)James Cameron lsquoLie o Pirsquo lsquobreaks the paradigmrsquoo 3-D movies Los Angeles imes 2nd NovemberAvailable rom

httparticleslatimescom2012nov02entertainmentla-et-mn-james-cameron-lie-pi-3d-20121101[Accessed 12th November 2013]

Sparknotes Editors (2006) SparkNote on Life of Pi [Online]

Available rom httpwwwsparknotescomlitlieopi[Accessed October 30 2013]

Wickman K (2012)Te 32 Differences Between lsquoLife of Pirsquo Book and Movie[Online]Available romhttpwwwfilmcommoviesdifferences-between-lie-o-pi-book-and-movie[Accessed 16th November 2013

BRADSHER K (2003)Pondicherry Journal Te Zoo Is Fiction but It Just Might Spring to LieTe New York imes 20th FebruaryAvailable romhttpwwwnytimescom20030220worldpondicherry-journal-the-zoo-

is-fiction-but-it-just-might-spring-to-liehtml[Accessed 22nd November 2013]

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Representationof Reality

Te story plays with both the whimsicality o fiction and theseriousness o reality Everything rom Pirsquos childhood and liein Pondicherry to the practices o the three religion Pi ollowsclosely mirrors our reality even the scenic landscape o Munnarthat Pi visited during a amily vacation and the once elegant(now in the midst o resuscitation) Parisian swimming pool thatPi was named afer Piscine Molitor actually exist

However how ofen is that an Indian boy is actually namedafer a swimming pool in Paris and having to deal with a Bengal

tiger in middle o the Pacific Ocean or months on end Teseand other extremely circumstantial details are barely possibleand yet Martel was able to present them naturally By addingsubtle flavours and spices he turns an extraordinary story to aseemingly ordinary but nonetheless interesting one

World ViewTe story revels in a world that is ull o endless wonders andpossible impossibilities From living briefly on a carnivorousisland that seeps out acid to catch its prey rom the ocean and

its ground to the magnificence o a Bengal tiger to surviving vicious storms with insufficient rations the story depicts thewondrous brilliance o Mother Nature It shows the humanrsquosinstinctual thirst o overcoming insurmountable odds duringsurvival or hardships o lie

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F ILM ADAPTATION

Te film adaptation o the noveldebuted on November 2012instantly garnering widespread

acclaim rom critics and audi-ences It was directed by re-nowned film director Ang Leewith the adapted screenplay byDavid Magee

Suraj Sharmarsquos immense talentshown through despite beinga total newcomer He sin-gle-handedly bore the weighto the majority o the filmrsquosproduction Under Ang Leersquoswatchul guidance he embod-ied the title character with aperormance that wowed criticsOther talented cast membersinclude Irran Khan Rae SpallGeacuterard Depardieu abu andAdil Hussain

O course like most adapta-

tions the film is added with apinch o quintessential Hol-lywood magic in the ormo striking visual effects andemotionally charged scenes andtheme music which makes thestory even more powerul How-ever the film lost some o Mar-telrsquos lighter touch But with Leersquosdirection the film truly brought

out the magic and imagery othe original without allowingthe audience to compare it withthe original

Te cinematography is superb

and the visual effects a hugebulk o the film is stunninglyconvincing Especially the visu-al effects on the sea itrsquos depictedas a living breathing entity withits own set o emotions ratherthan just a prop on the set Itshows both the beautiully calmside and dangerously uriousside oceans have that we donrsquot

normally encounter

Te film adaptation pays a

resoundingly antastic homageto the original book successul-ly condensing the essence o theoriginal into a two-hour visualmasterpiece while also divingthe audience into the deepermeanings o lie Itrsquos very rareor a film adaptation to pull offmirroring the original withoutchanging much o the original

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As with most film adaptationsgo they are bound to be di-erent rom the original mate-rial Life of Pi is no exception

though the differences withinthe film are subtle enough tohave little impact on the storybut noticeable enough

Te authorrsquos note and most oPirsquos explanation on zoology hasbeen lef out Itrsquos a logical deci-sion as people donrsquot really needto know how sloths and other

animals behave in the zoo andout in the wild to ully under-stand the plot Adding themwould just cause a two-hourlong film to eel even lengthierthan it should be

Te addition o Anandi Pirsquosgirlriend in Pondicherry beorehe migrated is one o the moreobvious but significant differ-

ences in the film It adds anemotional depth to his adoles-cence beore he migratedto Canada and emphasizesthe pain o leaving everythingbehind in India as they leave insearch or a supposedly betteruture

Te scenes with the French cookand the Buddhist were absentrom the book Adding themallows the audience to recognise

the story in which there wasa switch between the animalsand actual people on the simt-sum and find the connectionbetween the people and theanimals that corresponded withtheir personalities

A difference can also be seen inthe scene where the oil tanker

appeared as well In the bookthe oil tanker is right in ront oPi and almost crashes into himwhich is quite dramatic How-ever the oil tanker passes Pi inthe horizon in the film subtlyemphasizing the fleetingness ohope during absolute adversity

Tere is also a part where Piseems to have lost his sanityas he and Richard Parker wentblind Pi also met a ellow sur-

vivor on the sea which couldbe a hallucination Tis sceneshouldnrsquot have been omittedrom the film it could add alittle more flavour to Pirsquos jour-ney on the silver screen as itrsquosprobably be true or anyone outon the sea or seven months

Te film also excluded the many

gory and gruelling parts o thebook Pi killing turtles anddrink their blood isnrsquot exactly agood shot However this san-itizes the story or people whohavenrsquot read the book yetshielding them rom the darkerrealities o surviving the harshconditions o the sea

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Conclusion Life of Pi is definitely a rare marvel that canprooundly move onersquos perspective on lie Itspowerul story o a boy and a Bengal tiger setagainst the ever-changing Pacific Ocean shedslight on the things in lie that we ofen ignoreIt asks us to reflect on ourselves our lie andour religion and acknowledge their imperec-tions and try to accept and be content withthem despite their imperections

Right at the beginning it unashamedlydeclares a challenge to make you believe inGod It is rare or a book to proess such amonumental dare even beore its story startsit might even deter some rom reading onAlthough in the end it does ulfil its objectivesto some extent but it may have all short to asceptical atheist

Te book is an intriguing cacophony o zoologyphilosophy and theology with a strange dose oadventure and reality It satisfies your readingpleasure while presenting a ew questions youseldom ask yoursel As you delve through thepages to uncover whatrsquos going to happen to Pinext the book slips in a ew words o wisdomthat will let you wonder about the meaning olie both the bookrsquos and yours

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Martel Yann (2001) Life of Pi New York Knop Canada

Christophe Jean-Castille (2012)Te Making of Life of Pi A FilmA Journey Harper Design

GROSS M (2008) Pondicherryrsquos French ConnectionTe New York imes 30th March

MUNOZ M (2012) lsquoLie o PirsquoComparing Ang Leersquos Film With Yann Martelrsquos Novel

Te Daily Beast

21st NovemberAvailable romhttpwwwthedailybeastcomarticles20121121lie-o-pi-comparing-ang-lee-s-film-with-yann-martel-s-novelhtml[Accessed 8th November 2013]

KEEGAN R(2012)James Cameron lsquoLie o Pirsquo lsquobreaks the paradigmrsquoo 3-D movies Los Angeles imes 2nd NovemberAvailable rom

httparticleslatimescom2012nov02entertainmentla-et-mn-james-cameron-lie-pi-3d-20121101[Accessed 12th November 2013]

Sparknotes Editors (2006) SparkNote on Life of Pi [Online]

Available rom httpwwwsparknotescomlitlieopi[Accessed October 30 2013]

Wickman K (2012)Te 32 Differences Between lsquoLife of Pirsquo Book and Movie[Online]Available romhttpwwwfilmcommoviesdifferences-between-lie-o-pi-book-and-movie[Accessed 16th November 2013

BRADSHER K (2003)Pondicherry Journal Te Zoo Is Fiction but It Just Might Spring to LieTe New York imes 20th FebruaryAvailable romhttpwwwnytimescom20030220worldpondicherry-journal-the-zoo-

is-fiction-but-it-just-might-spring-to-liehtml[Accessed 22nd November 2013]

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Lane L View o the Pacific Ocean at Bodhisattvas Beach north o PillarPoint photograph viewed 21st November 2013

lt httpwwwflickrcomphotos71401718N003210964920in

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Mariner Books Book Cover or Life of Pi Viewed 21st November 2013

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F ILM ADAPTATION

Te film adaptation o the noveldebuted on November 2012instantly garnering widespread

acclaim rom critics and audi-ences It was directed by re-nowned film director Ang Leewith the adapted screenplay byDavid Magee

Suraj Sharmarsquos immense talentshown through despite beinga total newcomer He sin-gle-handedly bore the weighto the majority o the filmrsquosproduction Under Ang Leersquoswatchul guidance he embod-ied the title character with aperormance that wowed criticsOther talented cast membersinclude Irran Khan Rae SpallGeacuterard Depardieu abu andAdil Hussain

O course like most adapta-

tions the film is added with apinch o quintessential Hol-lywood magic in the ormo striking visual effects andemotionally charged scenes andtheme music which makes thestory even more powerul How-ever the film lost some o Mar-telrsquos lighter touch But with Leersquosdirection the film truly brought

out the magic and imagery othe original without allowingthe audience to compare it withthe original

Te cinematography is superb

and the visual effects a hugebulk o the film is stunninglyconvincing Especially the visu-al effects on the sea itrsquos depictedas a living breathing entity withits own set o emotions ratherthan just a prop on the set Itshows both the beautiully calmside and dangerously uriousside oceans have that we donrsquot

normally encounter

Te film adaptation pays a

resoundingly antastic homageto the original book successul-ly condensing the essence o theoriginal into a two-hour visualmasterpiece while also divingthe audience into the deepermeanings o lie Itrsquos very rareor a film adaptation to pull offmirroring the original withoutchanging much o the original

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Legendary director Ang Lee on the set of the scene where Pilists out all the irrational figures of the nickname he coined for himself

12

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Notable DifferencesldquoT983144983141 983149983151983158983145983141 983138983161 A983150983143 L983141983141 983137983150983140 983149983161 983150983151983158983141983148 983144983137983158983141 983156983144983141 983155983137983149983141 983156983145983156983148983141 983138983157983156 983141983137983139983144 983156983141983148983148983155

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983155983156983151983154983161 983154983141983155983156983155 983159983145983156983144 983161983151983157rdquo

- Y983137983150983150 M983137983154983156983141983148

As with most film adaptationsgo they are bound to be di-erent rom the original mate-rial Life of Pi is no exception

though the differences withinthe film are subtle enough tohave little impact on the storybut noticeable enough

Te authorrsquos note and most oPirsquos explanation on zoology hasbeen lef out Itrsquos a logical deci-sion as people donrsquot really needto know how sloths and other

animals behave in the zoo andout in the wild to ully under-stand the plot Adding themwould just cause a two-hourlong film to eel even lengthierthan it should be

Te addition o Anandi Pirsquosgirlriend in Pondicherry beorehe migrated is one o the moreobvious but significant differ-

ences in the film It adds anemotional depth to his adoles-cence beore he migratedto Canada and emphasizesthe pain o leaving everythingbehind in India as they leave insearch or a supposedly betteruture

Te scenes with the French cookand the Buddhist were absentrom the book Adding themallows the audience to recognise

the story in which there wasa switch between the animalsand actual people on the simt-sum and find the connectionbetween the people and theanimals that corresponded withtheir personalities

A difference can also be seen inthe scene where the oil tanker

appeared as well In the bookthe oil tanker is right in ront oPi and almost crashes into himwhich is quite dramatic How-ever the oil tanker passes Pi inthe horizon in the film subtlyemphasizing the fleetingness ohope during absolute adversity

Tere is also a part where Piseems to have lost his sanityas he and Richard Parker wentblind Pi also met a ellow sur-

vivor on the sea which couldbe a hallucination Tis sceneshouldnrsquot have been omittedrom the film it could add alittle more flavour to Pirsquos jour-ney on the silver screen as itrsquosprobably be true or anyone outon the sea or seven months

Te film also excluded the many

gory and gruelling parts o thebook Pi killing turtles anddrink their blood isnrsquot exactly agood shot However this san-itizes the story or people whohavenrsquot read the book yetshielding them rom the darkerrealities o surviving the harshconditions o the sea

13

8132019 Life of Pi Review

httpslidepdfcomreaderfulllife-of-pi-review 1619

Conclusion Life of Pi is definitely a rare marvel that canprooundly move onersquos perspective on lie Itspowerul story o a boy and a Bengal tiger setagainst the ever-changing Pacific Ocean shedslight on the things in lie that we ofen ignoreIt asks us to reflect on ourselves our lie andour religion and acknowledge their imperec-tions and try to accept and be content withthem despite their imperections

Right at the beginning it unashamedlydeclares a challenge to make you believe inGod It is rare or a book to proess such amonumental dare even beore its story startsit might even deter some rom reading onAlthough in the end it does ulfil its objectivesto some extent but it may have all short to asceptical atheist

Te book is an intriguing cacophony o zoologyphilosophy and theology with a strange dose oadventure and reality It satisfies your readingpleasure while presenting a ew questions youseldom ask yoursel As you delve through thepages to uncover whatrsquos going to happen to Pinext the book slips in a ew words o wisdomthat will let you wonder about the meaning olie both the bookrsquos and yours

ldquoW983144983145983139983144 983145983155 983156983144983141 983138983141983156983156983141983154 983155983156983151983154983161

983156983144983141 983151983150983141 983159983145983156983144 983137983150983145983149983137983148983155

983151983154 983156983144983141 983151983150983141 983159983145983156983144983151983157983156 rdquo

14

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R983141983142983141983154983141983150983139983141983155

Martel Yann (2001) Life of Pi New York Knop Canada

Christophe Jean-Castille (2012)Te Making of Life of Pi A FilmA Journey Harper Design

GROSS M (2008) Pondicherryrsquos French ConnectionTe New York imes 30th March

MUNOZ M (2012) lsquoLie o PirsquoComparing Ang Leersquos Film With Yann Martelrsquos Novel

Te Daily Beast

21st NovemberAvailable romhttpwwwthedailybeastcomarticles20121121lie-o-pi-comparing-ang-lee-s-film-with-yann-martel-s-novelhtml[Accessed 8th November 2013]

KEEGAN R(2012)James Cameron lsquoLie o Pirsquo lsquobreaks the paradigmrsquoo 3-D movies Los Angeles imes 2nd NovemberAvailable rom

httparticleslatimescom2012nov02entertainmentla-et-mn-james-cameron-lie-pi-3d-20121101[Accessed 12th November 2013]

Sparknotes Editors (2006) SparkNote on Life of Pi [Online]

Available rom httpwwwsparknotescomlitlieopi[Accessed October 30 2013]

Wickman K (2012)Te 32 Differences Between lsquoLife of Pirsquo Book and Movie[Online]Available romhttpwwwfilmcommoviesdifferences-between-lie-o-pi-book-and-movie[Accessed 16th November 2013

BRADSHER K (2003)Pondicherry Journal Te Zoo Is Fiction but It Just Might Spring to LieTe New York imes 20th FebruaryAvailable romhttpwwwnytimescom20030220worldpondicherry-journal-the-zoo-

is-fiction-but-it-just-might-spring-to-liehtml[Accessed 22nd November 2013]

15

8132019 Life of Pi Review

httpslidepdfcomreaderfulllife-of-pi-review 1819

P983144983151983156983151983143983154983137983152983144983161

983137983150983140

A983154983156 C983154983141983140983145983156983155

C983151983158983141983154 P983144983151983156983151

Wheller D (2011) iger Eyes photograph viewed 21st Novemeber 2013lt httpwwwflickrcomphotos29468339N025659095030inpho-tolist-9C5kMY gt

C983151983150983156983141983150983156983155 983152983137983143983141 983152983137983143983141 983091-983092 983093-983095 983097-983089983088 983089983090 983089983093

Production Stills rom Life of Pi film Courtesy o 20th Century Fox2012Viewed 21st November 2013

P983137983143983141 983093 P983144983151983156983151 983151983142 P983137983139983145983142983145983139 O983139983141983137983150 983155983144983151983154983141983148983145983150983141

Lane L View o the Pacific Ocean at Bodhisattvas Beach north o PillarPoint photograph viewed 21st November 2013

lt httpwwwflickrcomphotos71401718N003210964920in

photolist-5K319-5WNNtk-5WQFVe-5X7KmL-5Xdgq-5Z9GoB-6a8tE-6nLGA-6ojpSq-6ojqj-6okqUz-6veHMr-6vegc-6xNDL4-6xP9oM-6xPeXD-6xaYy-6xonW-6A2xP2-6A2Zgi-6A6FWq-6A7ab-6JcFw-7kQ6rW-e5cnRy-8KciAh-dL4tbh-87Mky-7SSxqA-djtxnb-86Q9F-9gJEFw-86WYXE-99BXn-dL4sGW-ejE9jQ-9iyF5V-86WWq1-awAa6N-cb2MPJ-eSFk1w-ekFbQ5-bUz9Qs-eSGzi5-ejDBC7 gt

P983137983143983141 983094 P983144983151983156983151 983151983142 983156983144983141 983141983150983156983154983137983150983139983141 983156983151 P983151983150983140983145983139983144983141983154983154983161 B983151983156983137983150983145983139983137983148

G983137983154983140983141983150983155

Peregrinari B Botanic Gardens Pondicherryphotograph viewed 21st November 2013lt httpwwwflickrcomphotosperegrinari6441403061 gt

16

8132019 Life of Pi Review

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P983137983143983141 983097 G983154983137983161983155983139983137983148983141 I983148983148983157983155983156983154983137983156983145983151983150 983151983142 T983145983143983141983154

Karthikeyan AY Bengal iger illustration viewed 21st November2013lt httpopenclipartorgdetail171253bengal-tiger-by-karthikey-an-171253 gt

P983137983143983141 983089983089 B983151983151983147 C983151983158983141983154 D983141983155983145983143983150

Mariner Books Book Cover or Life of Pi Viewed 21st November 2013

P983137983143983141 983089983092 P983144983151983156983151 983151983142 A983150983143 L983141983141 983151983150 P983154983151983140983157983139983156983145983151983150 S983141983156

Director Ang Lee (nd) photograph viewed 21st Novemberlt httpwwwflickrcomphotos85706936N028020531917inphotolist-ddKjH4-ddKjzZ-ddKiFY-dvyv32-dXtS26-dBgUVb-9bzP4P-e259u3-dv6osM-dv6opM-9RvMMk-eyx9us-7Pwho9-85H8kM-dvbYbJ-dvtAwz-dZNrbU-hoHiE-dBxSU-hoffKt-dkLoe5 gt

P983137983143983141 983089983094 P983151983155983156983141983154Kumar S Lie O Pi 2013 | FanArt Poster Digital Illustration

viewed 21st Novemberlt httpsivadigitalartdeviantartcomartLie-O-Pi-2013-FanArt-Post-er-413122709 gt

17

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Notable DifferencesldquoT983144983141 983149983151983158983145983141 983138983161 A983150983143 L983141983141 983137983150983140 983149983161 983150983151983158983141983148 983144983137983158983141 983156983144983141 983155983137983149983141 983156983145983156983148983141 983138983157983156 983141983137983139983144 983156983141983148983148983155

983137 983140983145983142983142983141983154983141983150983156 983155983156983151983154983161 983138983141983139983137983157983155983141 983141983137983139983144 983145983155 983156983151983148983140 983138983161 983137 983140983145983142983142983141983154983141983150983156 983155983156983151983154983161 983138983141983139983137983157983155983141983141983137983139983144 983145983155 983156983151983148983140 983138983161 983137 983140983145983142983142983141983154983141983150983156 983137983157983156983144983151983154 I983150 983156983144983141 983141983150983140 983156983144983141 983149983141983137983150983145983150983143 983151983142 983156983144983141

983155983156983151983154983161 983154983141983155983156983155 983159983145983156983144 983161983151983157rdquo

- Y983137983150983150 M983137983154983156983141983148

As with most film adaptationsgo they are bound to be di-erent rom the original mate-rial Life of Pi is no exception

though the differences withinthe film are subtle enough tohave little impact on the storybut noticeable enough

Te authorrsquos note and most oPirsquos explanation on zoology hasbeen lef out Itrsquos a logical deci-sion as people donrsquot really needto know how sloths and other

animals behave in the zoo andout in the wild to ully under-stand the plot Adding themwould just cause a two-hourlong film to eel even lengthierthan it should be

Te addition o Anandi Pirsquosgirlriend in Pondicherry beorehe migrated is one o the moreobvious but significant differ-

ences in the film It adds anemotional depth to his adoles-cence beore he migratedto Canada and emphasizesthe pain o leaving everythingbehind in India as they leave insearch or a supposedly betteruture

Te scenes with the French cookand the Buddhist were absentrom the book Adding themallows the audience to recognise

the story in which there wasa switch between the animalsand actual people on the simt-sum and find the connectionbetween the people and theanimals that corresponded withtheir personalities

A difference can also be seen inthe scene where the oil tanker

appeared as well In the bookthe oil tanker is right in ront oPi and almost crashes into himwhich is quite dramatic How-ever the oil tanker passes Pi inthe horizon in the film subtlyemphasizing the fleetingness ohope during absolute adversity

Tere is also a part where Piseems to have lost his sanityas he and Richard Parker wentblind Pi also met a ellow sur-

vivor on the sea which couldbe a hallucination Tis sceneshouldnrsquot have been omittedrom the film it could add alittle more flavour to Pirsquos jour-ney on the silver screen as itrsquosprobably be true or anyone outon the sea or seven months

Te film also excluded the many

gory and gruelling parts o thebook Pi killing turtles anddrink their blood isnrsquot exactly agood shot However this san-itizes the story or people whohavenrsquot read the book yetshielding them rom the darkerrealities o surviving the harshconditions o the sea

13

8132019 Life of Pi Review

httpslidepdfcomreaderfulllife-of-pi-review 1619

Conclusion Life of Pi is definitely a rare marvel that canprooundly move onersquos perspective on lie Itspowerul story o a boy and a Bengal tiger setagainst the ever-changing Pacific Ocean shedslight on the things in lie that we ofen ignoreIt asks us to reflect on ourselves our lie andour religion and acknowledge their imperec-tions and try to accept and be content withthem despite their imperections

Right at the beginning it unashamedlydeclares a challenge to make you believe inGod It is rare or a book to proess such amonumental dare even beore its story startsit might even deter some rom reading onAlthough in the end it does ulfil its objectivesto some extent but it may have all short to asceptical atheist

Te book is an intriguing cacophony o zoologyphilosophy and theology with a strange dose oadventure and reality It satisfies your readingpleasure while presenting a ew questions youseldom ask yoursel As you delve through thepages to uncover whatrsquos going to happen to Pinext the book slips in a ew words o wisdomthat will let you wonder about the meaning olie both the bookrsquos and yours

ldquoW983144983145983139983144 983145983155 983156983144983141 983138983141983156983156983141983154 983155983156983151983154983161

983156983144983141 983151983150983141 983159983145983156983144 983137983150983145983149983137983148983155

983151983154 983156983144983141 983151983150983141 983159983145983156983144983151983157983156 rdquo

14

8132019 Life of Pi Review

httpslidepdfcomreaderfulllife-of-pi-review 1719

R983141983142983141983154983141983150983139983141983155

Martel Yann (2001) Life of Pi New York Knop Canada

Christophe Jean-Castille (2012)Te Making of Life of Pi A FilmA Journey Harper Design

GROSS M (2008) Pondicherryrsquos French ConnectionTe New York imes 30th March

MUNOZ M (2012) lsquoLie o PirsquoComparing Ang Leersquos Film With Yann Martelrsquos Novel

Te Daily Beast

21st NovemberAvailable romhttpwwwthedailybeastcomarticles20121121lie-o-pi-comparing-ang-lee-s-film-with-yann-martel-s-novelhtml[Accessed 8th November 2013]

KEEGAN R(2012)James Cameron lsquoLie o Pirsquo lsquobreaks the paradigmrsquoo 3-D movies Los Angeles imes 2nd NovemberAvailable rom

httparticleslatimescom2012nov02entertainmentla-et-mn-james-cameron-lie-pi-3d-20121101[Accessed 12th November 2013]

Sparknotes Editors (2006) SparkNote on Life of Pi [Online]

Available rom httpwwwsparknotescomlitlieopi[Accessed October 30 2013]

Wickman K (2012)Te 32 Differences Between lsquoLife of Pirsquo Book and Movie[Online]Available romhttpwwwfilmcommoviesdifferences-between-lie-o-pi-book-and-movie[Accessed 16th November 2013

BRADSHER K (2003)Pondicherry Journal Te Zoo Is Fiction but It Just Might Spring to LieTe New York imes 20th FebruaryAvailable romhttpwwwnytimescom20030220worldpondicherry-journal-the-zoo-

is-fiction-but-it-just-might-spring-to-liehtml[Accessed 22nd November 2013]

15

8132019 Life of Pi Review

httpslidepdfcomreaderfulllife-of-pi-review 1819

P983144983151983156983151983143983154983137983152983144983161

983137983150983140

A983154983156 C983154983141983140983145983156983155

C983151983158983141983154 P983144983151983156983151

Wheller D (2011) iger Eyes photograph viewed 21st Novemeber 2013lt httpwwwflickrcomphotos29468339N025659095030inpho-tolist-9C5kMY gt

C983151983150983156983141983150983156983155 983152983137983143983141 983152983137983143983141 983091-983092 983093-983095 983097-983089983088 983089983090 983089983093

Production Stills rom Life of Pi film Courtesy o 20th Century Fox2012Viewed 21st November 2013

P983137983143983141 983093 P983144983151983156983151 983151983142 P983137983139983145983142983145983139 O983139983141983137983150 983155983144983151983154983141983148983145983150983141

Lane L View o the Pacific Ocean at Bodhisattvas Beach north o PillarPoint photograph viewed 21st November 2013

lt httpwwwflickrcomphotos71401718N003210964920in

photolist-5K319-5WNNtk-5WQFVe-5X7KmL-5Xdgq-5Z9GoB-6a8tE-6nLGA-6ojpSq-6ojqj-6okqUz-6veHMr-6vegc-6xNDL4-6xP9oM-6xPeXD-6xaYy-6xonW-6A2xP2-6A2Zgi-6A6FWq-6A7ab-6JcFw-7kQ6rW-e5cnRy-8KciAh-dL4tbh-87Mky-7SSxqA-djtxnb-86Q9F-9gJEFw-86WYXE-99BXn-dL4sGW-ejE9jQ-9iyF5V-86WWq1-awAa6N-cb2MPJ-eSFk1w-ekFbQ5-bUz9Qs-eSGzi5-ejDBC7 gt

P983137983143983141 983094 P983144983151983156983151 983151983142 983156983144983141 983141983150983156983154983137983150983139983141 983156983151 P983151983150983140983145983139983144983141983154983154983161 B983151983156983137983150983145983139983137983148

G983137983154983140983141983150983155

Peregrinari B Botanic Gardens Pondicherryphotograph viewed 21st November 2013lt httpwwwflickrcomphotosperegrinari6441403061 gt

16

8132019 Life of Pi Review

httpslidepdfcomreaderfulllife-of-pi-review 1919

P983137983143983141 983097 G983154983137983161983155983139983137983148983141 I983148983148983157983155983156983154983137983156983145983151983150 983151983142 T983145983143983141983154

Karthikeyan AY Bengal iger illustration viewed 21st November2013lt httpopenclipartorgdetail171253bengal-tiger-by-karthikey-an-171253 gt

P983137983143983141 983089983089 B983151983151983147 C983151983158983141983154 D983141983155983145983143983150

Mariner Books Book Cover or Life of Pi Viewed 21st November 2013

P983137983143983141 983089983092 P983144983151983156983151 983151983142 A983150983143 L983141983141 983151983150 P983154983151983140983157983139983156983145983151983150 S983141983156

Director Ang Lee (nd) photograph viewed 21st Novemberlt httpwwwflickrcomphotos85706936N028020531917inphotolist-ddKjH4-ddKjzZ-ddKiFY-dvyv32-dXtS26-dBgUVb-9bzP4P-e259u3-dv6osM-dv6opM-9RvMMk-eyx9us-7Pwho9-85H8kM-dvbYbJ-dvtAwz-dZNrbU-hoHiE-dBxSU-hoffKt-dkLoe5 gt

P983137983143983141 983089983094 P983151983155983156983141983154Kumar S Lie O Pi 2013 | FanArt Poster Digital Illustration

viewed 21st Novemberlt httpsivadigitalartdeviantartcomartLie-O-Pi-2013-FanArt-Post-er-413122709 gt

17

8132019 Life of Pi Review

httpslidepdfcomreaderfulllife-of-pi-review 1619

Conclusion Life of Pi is definitely a rare marvel that canprooundly move onersquos perspective on lie Itspowerul story o a boy and a Bengal tiger setagainst the ever-changing Pacific Ocean shedslight on the things in lie that we ofen ignoreIt asks us to reflect on ourselves our lie andour religion and acknowledge their imperec-tions and try to accept and be content withthem despite their imperections

Right at the beginning it unashamedlydeclares a challenge to make you believe inGod It is rare or a book to proess such amonumental dare even beore its story startsit might even deter some rom reading onAlthough in the end it does ulfil its objectivesto some extent but it may have all short to asceptical atheist

Te book is an intriguing cacophony o zoologyphilosophy and theology with a strange dose oadventure and reality It satisfies your readingpleasure while presenting a ew questions youseldom ask yoursel As you delve through thepages to uncover whatrsquos going to happen to Pinext the book slips in a ew words o wisdomthat will let you wonder about the meaning olie both the bookrsquos and yours

ldquoW983144983145983139983144 983145983155 983156983144983141 983138983141983156983156983141983154 983155983156983151983154983161

983156983144983141 983151983150983141 983159983145983156983144 983137983150983145983149983137983148983155

983151983154 983156983144983141 983151983150983141 983159983145983156983144983151983157983156 rdquo

14

8132019 Life of Pi Review

httpslidepdfcomreaderfulllife-of-pi-review 1719

R983141983142983141983154983141983150983139983141983155

Martel Yann (2001) Life of Pi New York Knop Canada

Christophe Jean-Castille (2012)Te Making of Life of Pi A FilmA Journey Harper Design

GROSS M (2008) Pondicherryrsquos French ConnectionTe New York imes 30th March

MUNOZ M (2012) lsquoLie o PirsquoComparing Ang Leersquos Film With Yann Martelrsquos Novel

Te Daily Beast

21st NovemberAvailable romhttpwwwthedailybeastcomarticles20121121lie-o-pi-comparing-ang-lee-s-film-with-yann-martel-s-novelhtml[Accessed 8th November 2013]

KEEGAN R(2012)James Cameron lsquoLie o Pirsquo lsquobreaks the paradigmrsquoo 3-D movies Los Angeles imes 2nd NovemberAvailable rom

httparticleslatimescom2012nov02entertainmentla-et-mn-james-cameron-lie-pi-3d-20121101[Accessed 12th November 2013]

Sparknotes Editors (2006) SparkNote on Life of Pi [Online]

Available rom httpwwwsparknotescomlitlieopi[Accessed October 30 2013]

Wickman K (2012)Te 32 Differences Between lsquoLife of Pirsquo Book and Movie[Online]Available romhttpwwwfilmcommoviesdifferences-between-lie-o-pi-book-and-movie[Accessed 16th November 2013

BRADSHER K (2003)Pondicherry Journal Te Zoo Is Fiction but It Just Might Spring to LieTe New York imes 20th FebruaryAvailable romhttpwwwnytimescom20030220worldpondicherry-journal-the-zoo-

is-fiction-but-it-just-might-spring-to-liehtml[Accessed 22nd November 2013]

15

8132019 Life of Pi Review

httpslidepdfcomreaderfulllife-of-pi-review 1819

P983144983151983156983151983143983154983137983152983144983161

983137983150983140

A983154983156 C983154983141983140983145983156983155

C983151983158983141983154 P983144983151983156983151

Wheller D (2011) iger Eyes photograph viewed 21st Novemeber 2013lt httpwwwflickrcomphotos29468339N025659095030inpho-tolist-9C5kMY gt

C983151983150983156983141983150983156983155 983152983137983143983141 983152983137983143983141 983091-983092 983093-983095 983097-983089983088 983089983090 983089983093

Production Stills rom Life of Pi film Courtesy o 20th Century Fox2012Viewed 21st November 2013

P983137983143983141 983093 P983144983151983156983151 983151983142 P983137983139983145983142983145983139 O983139983141983137983150 983155983144983151983154983141983148983145983150983141

Lane L View o the Pacific Ocean at Bodhisattvas Beach north o PillarPoint photograph viewed 21st November 2013

lt httpwwwflickrcomphotos71401718N003210964920in

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Christophe Jean-Castille (2012)Te Making of Life of Pi A FilmA Journey Harper Design

GROSS M (2008) Pondicherryrsquos French ConnectionTe New York imes 30th March

MUNOZ M (2012) lsquoLie o PirsquoComparing Ang Leersquos Film With Yann Martelrsquos Novel

Te Daily Beast

21st NovemberAvailable romhttpwwwthedailybeastcomarticles20121121lie-o-pi-comparing-ang-lee-s-film-with-yann-martel-s-novelhtml[Accessed 8th November 2013]

KEEGAN R(2012)James Cameron lsquoLie o Pirsquo lsquobreaks the paradigmrsquoo 3-D movies Los Angeles imes 2nd NovemberAvailable rom

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Lane L View o the Pacific Ocean at Bodhisattvas Beach north o PillarPoint photograph viewed 21st November 2013

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Peregrinari B Botanic Gardens Pondicherryphotograph viewed 21st November 2013lt httpwwwflickrcomphotosperegrinari6441403061 gt

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Director Ang Lee (nd) photograph viewed 21st Novemberlt httpwwwflickrcomphotos85706936N028020531917inphotolist-ddKjH4-ddKjzZ-ddKiFY-dvyv32-dXtS26-dBgUVb-9bzP4P-e259u3-dv6osM-dv6opM-9RvMMk-eyx9us-7Pwho9-85H8kM-dvbYbJ-dvtAwz-dZNrbU-hoHiE-dBxSU-hoffKt-dkLoe5 gt

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Lane L View o the Pacific Ocean at Bodhisattvas Beach north o PillarPoint photograph viewed 21st November 2013

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Peregrinari B Botanic Gardens Pondicherryphotograph viewed 21st November 2013lt httpwwwflickrcomphotosperegrinari6441403061 gt

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Karthikeyan AY Bengal iger illustration viewed 21st November2013lt httpopenclipartorgdetail171253bengal-tiger-by-karthikey-an-171253 gt

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Mariner Books Book Cover or Life of Pi Viewed 21st November 2013

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Director Ang Lee (nd) photograph viewed 21st Novemberlt httpwwwflickrcomphotos85706936N028020531917inphotolist-ddKjH4-ddKjzZ-ddKiFY-dvyv32-dXtS26-dBgUVb-9bzP4P-e259u3-dv6osM-dv6opM-9RvMMk-eyx9us-7Pwho9-85H8kM-dvbYbJ-dvtAwz-dZNrbU-hoHiE-dBxSU-hoffKt-dkLoe5 gt

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Karthikeyan AY Bengal iger illustration viewed 21st November2013lt httpopenclipartorgdetail171253bengal-tiger-by-karthikey-an-171253 gt

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Mariner Books Book Cover or Life of Pi Viewed 21st November 2013

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Director Ang Lee (nd) photograph viewed 21st Novemberlt httpwwwflickrcomphotos85706936N028020531917inphotolist-ddKjH4-ddKjzZ-ddKiFY-dvyv32-dXtS26-dBgUVb-9bzP4P-e259u3-dv6osM-dv6opM-9RvMMk-eyx9us-7Pwho9-85H8kM-dvbYbJ-dvtAwz-dZNrbU-hoHiE-dBxSU-hoffKt-dkLoe5 gt

P983137983143983141 983089983094 P983151983155983156983141983154Kumar S Lie O Pi 2013 | FanArt Poster Digital Illustration

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