External Conflicts In Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

Life of Pi is a novel written by Yann Martel in 2001. The novel was published by Random House of Canada in 2003. This book was translated to a movie in 2012 and received a total of 14 awards. It is an easy book to read, due to the teenage point of view and has a total of 319 pages. Most of the story’s literary elements are told throughout the story, with some minor exceptions. The protagonist of the story is, Piscine Molitor Patel, nicknamed Pi for short, and Richard Parker, the Bengal Tiger that was born and raised in Pi’s zoo in India. Throughout the story, there are many secondary characters that appear. There are three main external conflicts in the story, Man versus Man, Man versus Society, and Man versus Nature. The story follows

Though some of the oceans are described, most of the time, the ocean is only described as “the sea” or “the ocean”. The story is told in the third-person omniscient, as the story is told from Pi’s and the interviewer's point of view near the end of the book. The story follows a strange timeline. Pi, currently in the present, is telling the book writer his past story. Though in the end, the narrator switches to the fictional writer’s perspective and the book ends with a recording of an interview. The exposition and rising action are told in the first part of the three parts of the book. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor Patel, is a teenage boy who was born and raised in India. His family owns the Pondicherry zoo. Growing up with a peculiar name finally hit its breaking point, when a bully in his school, named “My Roman Soldier…” by Pi in the book, made fun of his name and started a trend that infected the teachers too. Another incident happened when Pi’s curiosity towards God encouraged him to pursue three different religions. Islam, Hindu, and Christianity. When the three followers that taught Pi their individual religion got into an argument on which