Life of Pi Padlet by James Munce https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w By James Munce en-us 2023-03-14 05:09:49 UTC 2023-03-14 05:48:43 UTC hello@padlet.com muncej4629 https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515521601 The theme of Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, is that the Id, Ego, and SuperEgo in one's mind must be balanced equally for the safety of oneself and others, or else danger will arise.]]> 2023-03-14 05:13:10 UTC https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515521601 Pi's first main encounter with his Id, changing his story. muncej4629 https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515527915 “I went, “Ahhhhhh!”, tossed the can overboard and got another… That can sailed overboard too, and I opened the next one. Which, shortly, also ended up in the ocean.” (Martel 179)

]]> 2023-03-14 05:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515527915 Pi's Id starts causing him to have *killer* thoughts. muncej4629 https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515530015 “Plan Number One: Push Him off the Lifeboat.” (Martel 198)

]]> 2023-03-14 05:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515530015 Pi's Id's Plans begin to get darker. muncej4629 https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515531116 “Plan Number Two: Kill Him with the Six Morphine Syringes.” (Martel 199)]]> 2023-03-14 05:19:21 UTC https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515531116 Pi's Id begins to make him sound helpless with their plans. muncej4629 https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515532580 “Plan Number Three: Attack Him with All Available Weaponry.” (Martel 199)]]> 2023-03-14 05:20:39 UTC https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515532580 Pi's Id makes him delusional, and starts coming up with plans that could never work. muncej4629 https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515533454  “Plan Number Four: Choke Him.” (Martel 199)]]> 2023-03-14 05:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515533454 Pi's starts to run out of plans and begins to lose power in his mind. muncej4629 https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515534962 “Plan Number Five: Poison Him, Set Him on Fire, Electrocute Him.” (Martel 200)]]> 2023-03-14 05:22:30 UTC https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515534962 Pi's Id finally settles on an achievable(ish) goal. muncej4629 https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515535730 “Plan Number Six: Wage a War of Attrition.” (Martel 200)]]> 2023-03-14 05:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515535730 Pi's Id loses control and his SuperEgo regains some control. muncej4629 https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515536586 “[Pi speaking to himself] I tell you, if you wage a war of attrition, you will lose it! You will die! IS THAT CLEAR?” (Martel 202)]]> 2023-03-14 05:23:47 UTC https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515536586 Pi fully conquers his Id(fear) for the time being. muncej4629 https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515538112 “I looked at Richard Parker. My panic was gone. My fear was dominated. Survival was at hand.” (Martel 208)]]> 2023-03-14 05:24:57 UTC https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515538112 Pi's Id gives him unreasonable attachments to random things, and holds him back. muncej4629 https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515538868 “Tears flowing down my cheeks, I egged myself on until I heard a cracking sound and I no longer felt any life fighting in my hands. I pulled back the folds of the blanket. The flying fish was dead.” (Martel 231)]]> 2023-03-14 05:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515538868 Pi's Id overcomes itself and kills a fish with his animal-like urges. muncej4629 https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515541357 “You may be astonished that in such a short period of time I could go from weeping over the muffled killing of a flying fish to gleefully bludgeoning to death a dorado.” (Martel 234)]]> 2023-03-14 05:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515541357 Pi's Id emotionally attaches himself to Richard Parker, putting himself in danger by keeping him. muncej4629 https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515550074 “A part of me did not want Richard Parker to die at all, because if he died I would be left alone with despair.” ]]> 2023-03-14 05:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515550074 Pi's Id completes a full 180 and is now keeping Richard Parker, putting him in danger now instead of Richard Parker. muncej4629 https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515551974 “I love you, Richard Parker. If I didn’t have you now, I don’t know what I would do.”]]> 2023-03-14 05:37:10 UTC https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515551974 Analysis muncej4629 https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515563919 All of Pi’s character development leads up to this moment. Pi started this story loathing the tiger that he had to feed and watch over: "Push him off the lifeboat... Kill Him... Attack him... Choke him." (Martel 198-199) Now it is his only friend left. Richard Parker, however, sadly does not care about him as much. Pi's attachment will only finish with him with a broken heart, as Richard Parker may have never truly cared about Pi the same way Pi did about him. As Richard Parker and Pi leave the boat for the final time, Richard Parker "only looked fixedly into the jungle," and then walked out of Pi's life without looking back to say goodbye. This proves in both ways how if an Id of someone's mind becomes uncontrollable, it can end up hurting oneself and others. For Pi, his attachment to an animal that never could truly sympathize with him eventually hurt him by leaving his life. For Richard Parker, Pi's desire to kill him in the beginning, although never fully carried out, put him in danger as Pi's main enemy for the longest time.]]> 2023-03-14 05:48:43 UTC https://padlet.com/muncej4629/h1g6k7vvxe8nef6w/wish/2515563919