My Life of Pi Padlet by Viet Tran https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk en-us 2023-03-12 23:02:35 UTC 2026-01-18 06:45:51 UTC hello@padlet.com MAIN CLAIM tranv4996 https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513483980 Because of Pi's journey at sea, he  developed into a feral child while coping with fear and grief, causing the tone of Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, to shift from happiness to remorse.]]> 2023-03-12 23:14:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513483980 Pi's positive outlook on life. tranv4996 https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513488948 "Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can" (6)]]> 2023-03-12 23:25:32 UTC https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513488948 Pi's talking in terms of animals and its lack of freedom, however it also fits the definition of feral child-which he will become later on in the story. tranv4996 https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513499018 "Being denied its "freedom" for too long, the animal becomes a shadow of itself, its spirit broken. So some people imagine." (16)]]> 2023-03-12 23:46:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513499018 The nature, and beauty of the world amazed Pi-giving the story a content, calm tone. tranv4996 https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513503921 "The feeling, a paradoxical mix of pulsing energy and profound peace, was intense and peaceful." (62) ]]> 2023-03-12 23:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513503921 Being on a boat with the most dangerous animal in the world becomes surreal, creating a tone of astonishment. tranv4996 https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513540954 "There was a tiger in the lifeboat. I could hardly believe it, yet I had to. And I had to save myself." (147)]]> 2023-03-13 00:37:13 UTC https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513540954 This was the start to Pi losing hope, which is crucial to this timeline. tranv4996 https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513549745 "I was giving up. I would have given up-if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said, 'I will not die, I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen every day. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen." (148)]]> 2023-03-13 00:46:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513549745 Isolated from the world made Pi lose track of time, forgetting how to actually live and only focusing on his survival, which started to get him feral. tranv4996 https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513567282 "I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusions that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time."(192)]]> 2023-03-13 01:04:14 UTC https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513567282 Giving up on fighting because control is out of his hands sets a grieving tone, he missed his old life. tranv4996 https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513570638 "I had no means of controlling where I was going-no ruder, no sails, no motor, some oars but insufficient brawn. What was the point of plotting a course if I could not act on it?" (193)]]> 2023-03-13 01:07:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513570638 He is slowly loosing his faith in religion, and that also causes him to loose hope in survival because that was a huge part of his only motivation to keep going-religion. tranv4996 https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513577994 "But it was hard, oh, it was hard. Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love-but sometimes it was hard to love." (208)]]> 2023-03-13 01:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513577994 This, was when he truly went feral, the desperation to be alive caused him go crazy. tranv4996 https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513581859 "I tried once to eat Richard Parker's feces. It happened early on, when my system hadn't learned yet to live with hunger and my imagination was still wildly searching for solutions." (213)

]]> 2023-03-13 01:17:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513581859 Nearly dying on the boat, it makes him rethink about his entire life, which gives a tone of remorse. tranv4996 https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513588083 "I clung to life. I was weakly frantic. The heat was infernal. I had so little strength I could no longer stand." (241) 

]]> 2023-03-13 01:22:14 UTC https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513588083 Pi lost his conscious of the outside world, making him confused between the real world and his dream. tranv4996 https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513591864 "I was getting used to the mental delusion. To make it last I refrained from putting a strain on it; when the lifeboat nudged the island, I did not move, only continued to dream." (257)]]> 2023-03-13 01:25:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513591864 ANALYSIS tranv4996 https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513623872 At the start of Life of Pi, Pi has always had a positive outlook on life, "Life is so beautiful that even death is jealous of it"(6) and because he was also religious individual, it drives him to look at life in a simpler way. Drifting across the Pacific Ocean, not only by himself but with the biggest, scariest tiger ever- Richard Parker(absolute),, it becomes surreal for him to accept what was happening, "There was a tiger in the lifeboat. I could hardly believe it, yet I  had to. And I had to save myself." (147). Time and time spent on the boat, days begin to become rather repetitive. Dying with boredom, Pi begins to question his existence,(participial) "I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusions that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time."(192). He found it hard to believe in God, which was truly a turning point for Pi since religion was always a huge part of his life. Faith was failing him, there was nothing that he could put his hope on anymore; (use to combine similar clauses which are not joined by coordinating conjunction) he realized that he has zero control over the choices he makes and where he is drifting, because after all he is still going to be in the middle of no where, with no water and food, only a tiger. Life was becoming an illusion for him, wondering the reality of land and sea.]]> 2023-03-13 01:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tranv4996/x9bt1o97vgw882jk/wish/2513623872