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Yann Martels telling of the hero's journey in the Life of Pi, show how Pis change of character is changed through the challenges he is forced to face.

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“To me, it was paradise on earth. I have nothing but the fondest memories of growing up in a zoo. I lived the life of a prince. What maharaja’s son had such vast, luxuriant grounds to play

about?”

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The call to adventure shown in Pi's religious journey not only his physical.

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The call to adventure shown in Pi's religious journey not only his physical.

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“First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first. I owe to Hinduism the original landscape of my religious imagination, those towns and rivers, battlefields and forests, holy mountains and deep seas where gods, saints, villains and ordinary people rub shoulders, and, in doing so, define who and why we are.”

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Pi's father sets the family to embark to Canada to flee the political problems in India showing the literal call to adventure.

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Pi's father sets the family to embark to Canada to flee the political problems in India showing the literal call to adventure.

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“Father said, “We’ll sail like Columbus!” “He was hoping to find India,” I pointed out sullenly.

We sold the zoo, lock, stock and barrel. To a new country, a new life. Besides ensuring our

collection of a happy future, the transaction would pay for our immigration and leave us with a

good sum to make a fresh start in Canada (though now, when I think of it, the sum is laughable-how blinded we are by money).”

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The ships sinks leaving Pi frightened  and scared showing the journey heading towards the unknown.

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The ships sinks leaving Pi frightened  and scared showing the journey heading towards the unknown.

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"The ship sank. It made a sound like a monstrous metallic burp. Things bubbled at the surface

and then vanished. Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart. From the lifeboat I saw

something in the water.

I cried, “Richard Parker, is that you? It’s so hard to see. Oh, that this rain would stop! Richard

Parker? Richard Parker? Yes, it is you!”

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Pi has now crossed the threshold sacred and fighting for his life, not knowing what has happened to his parents and how to move forward.

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Pi has now crossed the threshold sacred and fighting for his life, not knowing what has happened to his parents and how to move forward.

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"The elements allowed me to go on living. The lifeboat did not sink. Richard Parker kept out of

sight. The sharks prowled but did not lunge. The waves splashed me but did not pull me off.

I watched the ship as it disappeared with much burbling and belching. Lights flickered and

went out. I looked about for my family, for survivors, for another lifeboat, for anything that might

bring me hope. There was nothing. Only rain, marauding waves of black ocean and the flotsam of

tragedy."

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Pi has now been stranded for some time facing many trials of which he is put through horrible situations and forced to witness terrifying things never giving up on his survival.

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Pi has now been stranded for some time facing many trials of which he is put through horrible situations and forced to witness terrifying things never giving up on his survival.

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“Then, with only a snarl for notice, the hyena went amok. It hadn’t moved from its cramped

quarters all day. It put its front legs on the zebra’s side, reached over and gathered a fold of skin in

its jaws. It pulled roughly. A strip of hide came off the zebra’s belly like gift-wrap paper comes off

a gift, in a smooth-edged swath, only silently, in the way of tearing skin, and with greater resistance.

Immediately blood poured forth like a river.

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Pi now decides to lock into his situation and realize the severity with in it, his approach into this and his change in character in demeanor are shocking and we see him decide to tame Richard Parker.

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Pi now decides to lock into his situation and realize the severity with in it, his approach into this and his change in character in demeanor are shocking and we see him decide to tame Richard Parker.

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“I slept all morning. I was roused by anxiety. That tide of food, water and rest that flowed

through my weakened system, bringing me a new lease on life, also brought me the strength to see

how desperate my situation was. I awoke to the reality of Richard Parker. There was a tiger in the

lifeboat. I could hardly believe it, yet I knew I had to. And I had to save myself.”

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Pi has now reached his absolute low, the abyss, with seeing all these horrific and graphic scenes with everything promising towards him being killed or destroyed in his life it seems like their is no hope left for him.

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Pi has now reached his absolute low, the abyss, with seeing all these horrific and graphic scenes with everything promising towards him being killed or destroyed in his life it seems like their is no hope left for him.

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"I saw such a vision that I nearly wished I had remained blind. His butchered, dismembered

body lay on the floor of the boat. Richard Parker had amply supped on him, including on his face,

so that I never saw who my brother was. His eviscerated torso, with its broken ribs curving up like

the frame of a ship, looked like a miniature version of the lifeboat, such was its blood-drenched and

horrifying state."

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At this point Pi has already been through the absolute worse, Pi's thrown into a monster of a storm and his character and moral are smashed figuratively killing him leaving him broken, in reality it could not get much worse.

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At this point Pi has already been through the absolute worse, Pi's thrown into a monster of a storm and his character and moral are smashed figuratively killing him leaving him broken, in reality it could not get much worse.

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"Once there was lightning. The sky was so black, day looked like night. The downpour was

heavy. I heard thunder far away. I thought it would stay at that. But a wind came up, throwing the

rain this way and that. Right after, a white splinter came crashing down from the sky, puncturing the

water. It was some distance from the lifeboat, but the effect was perfectly visible. The water was

shot through with what looked like white roots; briefly, a great celestial tree stood in the ocean. I

had never imagined such a thing possible, lightning striking the sea. The clap of thunder was

tremendous. The flash of light was incredibly vivid."

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After everything Pi has been through, the fear and the pain, he is finally given the ultimate reward.

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After everything Pi has been through, the fear and the pain, he is finally given the ultimate reward.

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“My God! My God!” I whimpered.

I fell overboard.

The combined shock of solid land and cool water gave me the strength to pull myself forward

onto the island. I babbled incoherent thanks to God and collapsed.

But I could not stay still. I was too excited. I attempted to get to my feet. Blood rushed away

from my head. The ground shook violently. A dizzying blindness overcame me. I thought I would

faint. I steadied myself. All I seemed able to do was pant. I managed to sit up.

“Richard Parker! Land! Land! We are saved!” I shouted.

The smell of vegetation was extraordinarily strong. As for the greenness, it was so fresh and

soothing that strength and comfort seemed to be physically pouring into my system through my

eyes.

What was this strange, tubular seaweed, so intricately entangled? Was it edible? It seemed to

be a variety of marine algae, but quite rigid, far more so than normal algae. The feel of it in the hand

was wet and as of something crunchy. I pulled at it. Strands of it broke off without too much effort.

In cross-section it consisted of two concentric walls: the wet, slightly rough outer wall, so vibrantly

green, and an inner wall midway between the outer wall and the core of the algae.

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With Pi's choice of heading towards the unknown, risking it all and journeying to the real world, or stating in this fairy land he is given a crossroads, one in which his true character needs to decide.

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With Pi's choice of heading towards the unknown, risking it all and journeying to the real world, or stating in this fairy land he is given a crossroads, one in which his true character needs to decide.

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"By the time morning came, my grim decision was taken. I preferred to set off and perish in

search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this

murderous island. I filled my stores with fresh water and I drank like a camel. I ate algae throughout

the day until my stomach could take no more. I killed and skinned as many meerkats as would fit in

the locker and on the floor of the lifeboat. I reaped dead fish from the ponds. With the hatchet I

hacked off a large mass of algae and worked a rope through it, which I tied to the boat."

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Pi has done it, he has made it to land completing his journey not only physically, but spiritually as we can see his life has been greatly tested and ultimately returning to the original world changed for better, a new man.

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Pi has done it, he has made it to land completing his journey not only physically, but spiritually as we can see his life has been greatly tested and ultimately returning to the original world changed for better, a new man.

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When we reached land, Mexico to be exact, I was so weak I barely had the strength to be

happy about it. We had great difficulty landing. The lifeboat nearly capsized in the surf. I streamed

the sea anchors–what was left of them–full open to keep us perpendicular to the waves, and I

tripped them as soon as we began riding a crest. In this way, streaming and tripping the anchors, we

surfed in to shore. It was dangerous. But we caught one wave at just the right point and it carried us

a great distance, past the high, collapsing walls of water.

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Over the course of Pi's journey thought his life and on the water he encounters many things that are followed through the heroes journey template. Going through this challenging and harsh trials we can see a clear change in his character over the course of this. In the begging in him starting off as a timid and innocent boy with him near the end being a hardened and scared boy who has gone through the absolute worse.