Comparing Lord Of The Flies And Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

Lord of the Flies and Life of Pi are both epic adventures with an array of similarities and differences; Lord of the Flies, in 1954, is written by William Golding and Life of Pi, in 2001, is written by Indian author Yann Martel. Golding’s book takes place on a vacant, overgrown island, where a plane carrying young school boys crashes. The boys attempt to re-create the society of their home but start to split and fight, causing the death of some of the boys. Martel’s main character, Pi Patel, grows up in India but tensions within the country cause Pi and his family to move. While on a freight boat going to Canada a hurricane sweeps over the ocean taking the ship with it; Pi is left in the ocean on a lifeboat for almost a year. We are told the

In Lord of the Flies, Piggy, a character who is almost blind, cries when his glasses break. In Life of Pi, when Pi lands on the Mexican coast, he begins to shed tears as the Richard Parker inside of him leaves. Both characters are heart broken when their main object of survival is stripped from them. In the Disney movie Tangled, Rapunzel escapes her tower and runs rampant around the real world with a jewel thief. When Rapunzel realizes how bad people can truly be, she runs back to Mother Gothel and cries into her shoulder. All three of these characters weep when they lose something of importance to them; Piggy loses his glasses, Pi loses the Richard Parker inside of him, and Rapunzel loses her innocence. In Golding’s narrative, Jack manifests no emotion when he kills animals or people. In Martel’s work, Pi exhibits a great deal of emotion the first time he kills a fish and, as a grown man, is brought to tears when thinking back on having to kill the cook so that he does not die. Jack is not unnerved when he takes part in the murder of Simon and threatens to kill many of the other boys on the island if they go against his schemes. On the other hand, Pi is devastated when he has to kill a fish; as he watches the color fade from the creature he apologizes to the dying animal and begins to cry over its body. J.R.R. Tolkien creates the character of Aragorn in Lord of the Rings in order to illustrate a

In Life of Pi, Pi takes all of the supplies from the lifeboat and puts them on the raft floating alongside the boat; Pi does not want to be on the boat where his mother was murdered by the French cook. In Lord of the Flies, Jack does not want to leave the island on account of the cruel past he has. Pi and Jack both feel the need to be as far away as possible from the bad memories that they have. In the Lunar Chronicles book series, which is based off of original Disney princesses and set in the future, Cinder (Cinderella) is a cyborg who is acting as a servant for her step mother; the younger of Cinder’s two step sisters, Peony, is a friend to Cinder. When Peony contracts a deadly disease and dies, Cinder, who is a mechanic, fixes up a junk yard car and runs away in order to discover the truth of the past that she does not remember; Cinder comes to find out that she is the lost princess Selene, heir to the Lunar throne. Cinder, as well as Pi and Jack, all attempt to stay as far away from their past as possible. In Martel’s work, the French cook, after killing two people, knows that he deserves death and allows Pi the chance to kill him. In Lord of the Flies, Jack notices nothing wrong with killing the other boys and does not give any of them the chance to harm him. These two characters differ in their decisions and ideas about murder. In Disney’s The Lion King, Scar organizes the murder of