Life Of Pi Research Paper

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“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return” stated by Salman Rushdie suggests that a book offers a little piece of different places in the world in between it's spine. The Spanish author Yann Martel was born on June 25, 1963( Keebaugh 1). He was the son of two Canadian diplomats and spent much of his youth traveling ( Keebaugh 1). He published The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (1993) and Self (1996) before Life of Pi. Self was short-listed for the 1996 Books in Canada First Novel Award among many other prestigious organizations. His most famous novel tells the story of a boy, Piscine Molitor Patel, or Pi, stranded in the pacific with a 450 pound tiger named Richard Parker. On the raft Pi experiences boredom, fear, despair over his family, and deep spiritual questioning (McGlynn 1). The formidable tiger who at the beginning was a source of fear transforms into a distraction from the nothingness of the extensive Pacific. The massive tiger seems to be a central …show more content…

Life of Pi has been translated into thirty different languages and has been adapted into a movie in late 2012. The movie earned over US$609 million worldwide and was nominated for many awards. The book has been received with open arms all around the world and so have its adaptations, “The novel achieved fame and captured the 2001 Man Booker Prize and Jean-Pierre Jeunet was just signed on to direct a film version of the novel”( McGlynn). The novel was originally published in Canada and reached fame in the United Kingdom where the Man Booker Prize is from. This shows the traveling the book has and done and the popularity it has attained by being made into a film. Life of Pi has been diffused throughout the globe,been republished, translated, adapted and has reached many foreign prizes showing ints literary

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