Life of Pi, or Life of YOU? by Alia Sharareh https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok English 10H Period 2 - Life of Pi Claim en-us 2022-03-29 15:55:51 UTC 2022-03-31 14:46:07 UTC hello@padlet.com Main Claim sharareha2736 https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119682879 While reading Life of Pi, the reader can comprehend the suspension of disbelief by having a sense of emotion to try to insert themselves in the situation of the story. ]]> 2022-03-29 16:01:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119682879 Pi's childhood verifies his nature within the presence of animals and how he corresponds with their nature, too. sharareha2736 https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119690742 "Wild animals that are captured when they are fully mature are another example of escape-prone animals; often they are too set in their ways to reconstruct their subjective worlds and adapt to a new environment" (22).]]> 2022-03-29 16:05:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119690742 Pi has an installation and adventure with faith in order to find his morals. sharareha2736 https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119694965 "In the living room, on a table next to the sofa, there is a small framed picture of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe, flowers tumbling from her open mantle. Next to it is a framed photo of the black-robed Kaaba, holiest sanctum of Islam, surrounded by a ten-thousandfold swirl of the faithful" (24).

]]> 2022-03-29 16:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119694965 Pi is captured with anxiety, not knowing what his future will contain. sharareha2736 https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119701921 "People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. Because of the impression that the future is blocked up, that they might do all right but not their children" (39). ]]> 2022-03-29 16:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119701921 One of the most traumatic things a teenager can experience, Pi feels troubled and left on his own knowing his family is dead underwater. sharareha2736 https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119703757 "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"(46).

]]> 2022-03-29 16:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119703757 Being overwhelmed of whether it's better to have frightening company or no company at all hits Pi and leads to a dilemma. sharareha2736 https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119705411 "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!'” (46). 

]]> 2022-03-29 16:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119705411 Pi's childhood trauma inserts in his mind in the very moment of being alone with the tiger again, just like years ago, when he almost got his hand bitten off his upper limb. sharareha2736 https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119709700 "Ravi was right. Truly I was to be the next goat. I had a wet, trembling, half-drowned, heaving and coughing three-year-old adult Bengal tiger in my lifeboat. Richard Parker rose unsteadily to his feet on the tarpaulin, eyes blazing as they met mine, ears laid tight to his head, all weapons drawn" (47).

]]> 2022-03-29 16:15:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119709700 Pi feels the need to kill Richard Parker as his escape from danger. sharareha2736 https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119717820 "Fear and reason fought over the answer. Fear said Yes. He was a fierce, 450-pound carnivore. Each of his claws was as sharp as a knife. Reason said No. The tarpaulin was sturdy canvas, not a Japanese paper wall. I had landed upon it from a height" (51).

]]> 2022-03-29 16:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119717820 Pi gets company after the boat sinks, though the company isn't necessarily human. sharareha2736 https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119737385 "I had to explain to myself how a hyena had come to be on the lifeboat. I doubted hyenas were capable of swimming in open seas. I concluded that it must have been on board all along, hiding under the tarpaulin, and that I hadn’t noticed it when I landed with a bounce" (52). 

]]> 2022-03-29 16:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119737385 Pi's bond with Richard Parker shifts and he realizes they are more connected than he previously thought. sharareha2736 https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119738445 I stopped whistling and sat down heavily on the raft, out of breath and exhausted. And so it came to be: Plan Number Seven: Keep Him Alive (76). 

]]> 2022-03-29 16:29:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119738445 Pi's sense of hope and desire fades. sharareha2736 https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119740201 I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate (78).

]]> 2022-03-29 16:30:39 UTC https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119740201 Pi rephrases the same phrase as he first stated when we, the readers, first found out how the ship sank to remind us of his significant adventure. sharareha2736 https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119741961 “The ship sank. It made a sound like a monstrous metallic burp. Things bubbled at the surface and then vanished. I found myself kicking water in the Pacific Ocean (138).

]]> 2022-03-29 16:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2119741961 FINAL ANALYSIS sharareha2736 https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2121791802 Pi sees that Richard Parker, though as intimidating as he is, he is a symbol of Pi himself. They both have fear installed in themselves, and although they are of different species, they use each other as company as a way to cope throughout the journey on the sea. Once realizing the necessity of having an intimidating mammal was one of the best things that could have happened, it led him to one choice: "Plan Number Seven: Keep Him Alive" (76).  In the same way that Pi and Richard Parker view themselves as similar obstacles, the reader can do this for Pi. The suspension of disbelief allows the reader to envision themselves in a scenario that they have never experienced before.]]> 2022-03-30 15:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sharareha2736/1kchnccogbesrtok/wish/2121791802