https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3 Theme of Life of Pi en-us 2023-03-13 23:26:31 UTC 2023-03-14 04:43:08 UTC hello@padlet.com sorensenn5617 https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515195243 In the novel Life Of Pi by Yann Martel, Pi’s experience in the shipwreck conveyed how he was forced to overcome and survive many challenges both physical and mental.]]> 2023-03-14 00:24:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515195243 sorensenn5617 https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515205773 “He was kicking vigorously with his legs.  I grabbed an oar.  I thrust it at him, meaning to push him away.  I missed and lost hold of the oar” (99).]]> 2023-03-14 00:32:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515205773 sorensenn5617 https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515211820  “I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts” (105).]]> 2023-03-14 00:37:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515211820 sorensenn5617 https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515214236 “I began to wait. My thoughts swung wildly. I was either fixed on practical details of immediate survival or transfixed by pain, weeping silently” (111).

]]> 2023-03-14 00:39:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515214236 sorensenn5617 https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515220181 “I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know” (161).]]> 2023-03-14 00:45:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515220181 sorensenn5617 https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515223360  “I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time” (192).]]> 2023-03-14 00:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515223360 sorensenn5617 https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515259371 “I kept rainwater and the water I collected from the solar stills in the locker, out of Richard Parker’s sight, in the three 50-litre plastic bags. I sealed them with string. Those plastic bags wouldn’t have been more precious to me had they contained gold, sapphires, rubies and diamonds” (224).]]> 2023-03-14 01:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515259371 sorensenn5617 https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515264150 "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” (283).]]> 2023-03-14 01:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515264150 sorensenn5617 https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515269676 “A part of me did not want Richard Parker to die at all, because if he died I would be left alone with despair, a foe even more formidable than a tiger” (164).

]]> 2023-03-14 01:23:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515269676 sorensenn5617 https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515272458 “The instructions also suggested survivors restrict themselves to half a litre of water every twenty-four hours. I counted the cans of water. There were 124. Each contained half a litre. So I had water rations to last me 124 days”  (144).]]> 2023-03-14 01:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515272458 sorensenn5617 https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515275418 “casting my line out and pulling it in quickly, making the head skim over the surface of the water, that I finally had my first strike” (184).]]> 2023-03-14 01:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515275418 sorensenn5617 https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515382370 “I kept myself busy. That was one key to my survival. On a lifeboat, even on a raft, there’s always something that needs doing.” (190).]]> 2023-03-14 02:56:07 UTC https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515382370 sorensenn5617 https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515409571 “I cut the fish in two halves. Richard Parker was looking my way. I threw him his share” (240).]]> 2023-03-14 03:18:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515409571 sorensenn5617 https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515465870 When Pi eventually makes it to the coast of Mexico, even though he has managed to survive, the mental and physical changes that he endured during his trip are all too apparent.  Pi, a lifeless shell of himself (appositive), is too weak to even feel the happiness and relief of finally finding land.  In fact, Pi remembers that, “When we reached land, Mexico to be exact, I was so weak I barely had the strength to be happy about it" (284).  Pi had to overcome both mental and physical challenges; (two related sentences) the extremity of these changed Pi to a point where he didn't even feel excited, landing on the beaches of Mexico (participle). ]]> 2023-03-14 04:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sorensenn5617/dvdtpg1z2zcs3ub3/wish/2515465870