Survival, that’s the key; to problems, to school, to family, and to life. Everyone has struggles in life that they look back on and say “I would not be the person today if I did not survive that battle”. But what was helping them? Obviously they had to have some help. Everyone is helpless on their own unless they ask for help or someone sees, feels, or senses that they need help. And they’re called miracles. If they hadn’t just popped into their life, situation, or problem, they would have not made it through the problem. Not only do they help them with their problems, they shape them and build them into the strong young man or woman they become in the end. Other names for these people are; anchors, cornerstones, foundation (what keeps them sturdy). If one has a weak foundation, everything will crumble. If one has a strong sturdy foundation, they will rise above and become …show more content…
He’s lived with one in a lifeboat for quite sometime. Hasn’t been around humans since his parents died. So his mind has landed into survival mode. And sometimes survival mode means animal-like behavior. “I will further confess that, driven by the extremity of my need and the madness to which it pushed me, I ate some of his flesh. I mean small pieces, little strips that I meant for the gaff 's hook that, when dried by the sun, looked like ordinary animal flesh. They slipped into my mouth nearly unnoticed. You must understand, my suffering was unremitting and he was already dead” (Chapter 91). He just ate the French Chief with Richard Parker. Sure, he was dead, but this proves the more that Pi had taken on animal-like behavior to survive. Pi would not have done that on his own. Infact, the French Chief would not have been dead if Richard Parker had not been there. Pi would not have made it that far without him. He would have died in the middle of the ocean if Richard Parker had not been there to mentally make Pi fight for
Pi’s love for animals and his childhood life lead him to become a vegetarian. Pi grew up as a strict vegetarian, his parents and everyone he knew were vegetarian, to be fair, the whole region he lived in was vegetarian. If the society norm was being vegetarian, Pi would not have been any different from the rest. Pi never ate any sort of meat before in his life, the mere thought of him eating it made him feel nauseated. Therefore, only a life or death situation could change Pi from being a vegetarian. Lord, to think that I'm a strict vegetarian. To think that when I was a child I always shuddered when I snapped open a banana because it sounded to me like the breaking of an animal's neck. I descended to a level of savagery I never imagined possible. (Yann Martel, 249). Pi demonstrations how serious he was about his vegetarian belief by simply believing that he killed a banana and how hard it would be for him to even contemplate about eating meat. Hence, Pi reacted very solemnly when he killed the flying fish. 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. It was split open and bloody on one side of its head, at the level of the gills (231). Pi grieved for the fish as though it was his family. He shows how caring and serious his love for anim...
In the film To Live, a man and his family experience the effects of historical events of their own lives while living in China from the 1940s until the late 1970s. This film is a work of fiction, but it creates a generalization about the lives of the common folk and their imaginable struggle through life that they went through during the war. The war represented an ideological split between the Communist CPS and the KMT’s brand of Nationalism. Xu Fugui is one of the main characters and his name in Chinese means “Lucky & Rich.” Describing his character at the start on having an addiction to gambling and does not take responsibility for his actions. The film also hints slight social norms of gender inequality, such as with his wife, Jiazhen,
I feel like you look at all animals like some of us look at dogs. I could not even think about eating a dog or even a cat. People look at dogs like basically humans. They feed it human food, look after it like a child, some even have their own beds. If I looked at every animal like a dog or cat, I would have a lot more respect for animals. I would disagree with zoos because they can’t roam free as they please. This scene shows how low Pi had to stoop in his mind to stay alive. Eating meat alone for Pi was hard for him but he actually had to kill an animal, snapping their neck to be exact. If he could barely peel a banana because it sounded like the breaking of an animal’s neck, I could not imagine having to kill an animal to eat it. This scene took a lot out of Pi, maybe he realized that he might actually die and this is the end if he is stooping this low to eat food. This was one huge reality check for Pi, calling himself a savage just implies that. Maybe this was the scene where he sat back and maybe thought to himself; “maybe this is really happening, maybe I am lost at sea with a wild beast.” There really isn’t a choice for Pi at this point on out, he has to fight for his
Survival, a life or death situation, one wrong move and you could die. It’s hard to remain calm in these situations, but some can do it. Lee had to escape from North Korea, Ralston was trapped alone under a rock, and Rainsford was being hunted alive, they survived from three things. It took Lee’s courage, Ralston’s Endurance, and Rainsford’s Intelligence to show they were survivors.
...eating the zebra alive in Chapter 45. Another example of Thanatos is shown when the hyena bites a hole into the zebra and Pi feels a sense of hatred towards the hyena for hurting the zebra and he even considers attacking it. An id and ego split is also shown between Pi and Richard Parker by showing Richard Parker to be an imaginary tiger that is created by Pi in order to keep him alive and focused on staying alive. Pi eventually abandons his superego and partakes in eating meat, even though he was a strict vegetarian prior to being lost at sea. Over the duration of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, the story relates to Freud’s theories in several ways that are made blatantly obvious; these relations are what makes this story come together to keep the reader involved and interested.
A few survival stories from the Mossy Oak Trail Guide illustrate the benefit of having a survival mentality. Here are some of those stories.
His love and understanding of zoology was the reason he survived on the life raft. Even though Pi went against his morals and ate meat, Pi saw it as necessary to survive. His will to survive and to eliminate all personal boundaries allowed him to do what ever deed needed to survive. And finally using his knowledge of animals as a means of maintaining a psychological level of sanity, which kept him motivated and sane throughout his time at sea. With the extreme circumstances that Pi lived through, and the means he used to cope with them, it is obvious that his choices were
The purpose of this assignment is to provide a brief synopsis of life course theory, while explaining the key principles of the theory as it relates to my personal interpretation. Also, by explaining the key principles of the theory, explain how this examined theory relates to the chosen news article event titled, “Lawyer: Jury Should Hear About Cop’s ‘Auditory Exclusion’”.
At the start of novel, and when Pi is a child, he is extremely religious. He devotes his life to loving God, and even practices three religions to do so. He practices Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity. His explanation for practicing all three is that according to Bapu Gandhi, “‘All religions are true’”(69). Pi explains that he practices all three religions because, “[he] just wants to love God”(69). Pi’s major religious values and faith in God continue to shape his life daily, until the shipwreck leaves him stranded on the Pacific, with a tiger for 227 days. Although Pi still remains religious and continues to praise God most days, the shipwreck does change Pi’s religious morals. Richard Parker is the factor that begins this change in Pi, because Pi knows that in order to survive he will have to fish to provide for Richard Parker if he wants to avoid being eaten himself. Fishing, however goes against the religious practice of Hinduism, which requires vegetarianism. Also, killing animals goes against Pi’s whole religious morals to not hurt another living being. Pi says the idea of killing a fish, and of “beating a soft living head with a hammer [is] simply too much”(183). It goes against everything he believes in. So, he decides to instead cover to fish’s head and break its neck (183). He explains that, “he [gives] up a number of times.
Durden) In the first days that Pi is stranded at sea he knows that he must make a plan of what he will be doing for food when the biscuits run out. Pi realizes that he’ll need to fish to feed both Richard Parker and himself. Though it does not seem to occur to him at the time that he’ll have to kill another living creature to do so. All the brutality and murder that had played out in front of his eyes would not compare to the pain and strength it would take to kill his first fish. At first Pi was going to kill the flying fish with a hatchet but decided he couldn’t bring himself to do it. Pi decided next he would use the back of the hatchet to bash the fish’s head in, but again chose another way. Lastly, Pi decided that he would kill the fish by breaking its neck. He wept over the fish as he applied pressure and had to keep himself from stopping until he heard the cracking of the creature's neck. “I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands.” (230-231 Martel) While stranded at sea Pi is forced to put all his ideals behind him and fight to
For most people, survival is just a matter of putting food on the table, making sure that the house payment is in on time, and remembering to put on that big winter coat. Prisoners in the holocaust did not have to worry about such things. Their food, cloths, and shelter were all provided for them. Unfortunately, there was never enough food, never sufficient shelter, and the cloths were never good enough. The methods of survival portrayed in the novels Maus by Art Spieglmen and Night by Elie Wiesel are distinctly different, but undeniably similar.
Having just experienced the sinking of his family’s ship, and being put onto a life boat with only a hyena, Pi felt completely lost and alone. When he sees Richard Parker, the Bengal tiger from his family’s zoo, it is a familiar face to him. His initial reaction is to save the life of his familiar friend so that he may have a companion, and a protector aboard the lifeboat. Suddenly Pi realizes just what he is doing. He is saving the life of Richard Parker, by welcoming him, a 450 pound Bengal tiger, onto the small lifeboat. He experiences a change of heart when helping the tiger onto the boat. Pi realizes that he is now posing a threat on his own life. With Richard Parker on the boat, Pi is faced with not only the fight to survive stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but the fight to survive living with a meat eating tiger. The change of heart that Pi experiences might possibly mean that he is an impulsive thinker. It may mean that he often does something on impulse without thinking it through, and then later regrets his actions.
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From the start of time, life and death have been the only two components living organisms can rely on. Every living organism from the coral in the sea to a human undergoes birth, a specialized life cycle and eventually death. Life is such a broad term with so many philosophical attachments from religion to evolution. Simply put, life is the ability to grow and change. Life separates plants and animals from things like water and rocks. For this paper I will focus on the different stages of human life, death and how the advancements in technology and medicine have directly affected both.
The distinction between life and death largely relies on the current definitions of life and death. Illogically, there seems to be less disagreement about the definition of death, while the definition of life remains controversial. In a legally perfect world, the factors considered for declaration of death would be the same factors considered to define life, however, that does not appear to be the case. While the current definitions of death are fairly consistent but not free of conflict, the definition of life remains controversial.