Life Of Pi Persuasive Letter

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Dear students, faculty, concerned parents, and concerned onlookers, if I may start, I know of your concerns about the banned book that some are trying to teach and have gotten put back in schools. I am here to address why the book should be taught and learned about in school, despite it including topics like religion and having vivid descriptions of violence in this book. The novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel talks about the obstacles of an Indian boy named Piscine Molitor Patel known as Pi, who survives a shipwreck and ends up on a lifeboat with a Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker. Pi and Richard Parker survive for a long time and end up in Mexico after two hundred and twenty-seven days of being stranded on a cargo ship in the Pacific Ocean. …show more content…

Each one earned him part of a meerkat (Martel 166). The second time Pi trained Richard Parker, he knew a little bit more but still his knowledge was limited. After the second time Pi tried and succeeded in training Richard Parker, Pi had a better understanding of what he was doing when training Richard Parker and he also knew he tried his best. The second time had an outcome of understanding Richard Parker better and learning more about the classical conditioning he was doing, not knowing that it was something called classical conditioning but just training. With both times Pi trained or enforced classical conditioning he learned more about what he was doing, tried his best, and had a good outcome after the training that was done. The last benefit is learning how living beings, be it an animal or a person, only feel the need to leave and not come back to the location they deem good, due to a traumatic situation. Chapter four discusses the ups and downs of having a zoo, and a variety of other aspects of having a zoo. They talk about how zoo roe-deer quickly returned to their corral after either escaping or being let out. The roe-deer leave and come back because they do not have a reason to …show more content…

Due to the different situations, from those with situational variants between the roe-deer having no traumatic situations and the traumatic situation with Richard Parker this caused a variety of reactions including fully running away and not coming back. In conclusion, students, faculty, concerned parents, and concerned onlookers, the three benefits of the novel Life of Pi I talked about were how people who never truly give up through hardships can achieve great triumph, despite little knowledge at the start of something new you can try your best to figure things out which will lead to learning and knowing that you tried your best, and when sometimes getting a good outcome learning how living beings, be it an animal or a person, only feel the need to leave and not come back to the location they deem good only, due to the fact that they are not to a traumatic situation, or a traumatic situation. Pi persevered throughout the novel, despite having little knowledge at the start of something new. Anyone can try their best to figure things out and this will hopefully lead to learning and knowing that you tried your

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