LIFE OF PI PART 2
THE
CHARACTERS ON PART 2 OF THE NOVEL LIFE OF PI BY YANN MARTELL ARE: PI AND
INDIAN BOY WHO HAS LOST HIS PARENTS AND SIBILINGS ON THE SUNKEN SHIP. PI IS THE
NARRATOR FOR MOST OF THE NOVEL. RICHARD PARKER, THE ROYAL BENGAL TIGER WHO
EAGERLY TOOK THE CHANCE TO EAT THE HYENA. THE HYENA WAS AN UGLY-VIOLENT ANIMAL
WHO WAS THE ONE WHO ATTACK THE ZEBRA AND KILLED ORANGE JUICE ON THE LIFEBOAT.
THE ZEBRA, A BEAUTIFUL MALE ZEBRA WHO BREAK A LEG WHILE JUMPING INTO THE
LIFEBOAT AND WAS EATEN ALIVE BY THE HYENA. ORANGE JUICE, A MATERNAL ORANGUTAN
WHO FLOATS IN A RAFT OF BANANAS INTO THE LIFEBOAT. ORANGE JUICE WAS ATTACK AND
KILLED BY THE HYENA. THE BLIND FRENCHMAN, WHO MEETS WITH PI IN THE MIDDLE OF
THE OCEAN AND TRIES TO KILL PI BUT RICHARD PARKER KILLED HIM BEFORE.
AS PI AND
RICHARD PARKER WERE STRANDED ON THE MIDDLE OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN, PI DECIDES TO
BUILD ANOTHER PART OF THE BOAT BECAUSE RICHARD PARKER DID NOT LET HIM BE ON THE
LIFEBOAT. PI USED HIS INTELLIGENCE AND CREATIVITY IN ORDER TO BUILD THAT PART
OF THE LIFEBOAT. WHEN PI HAD JUST FINISHED BUILDING HIS PART HE WAS FIGHTING
WITH RICHARD PARKER TO SEE WHO IS IN CONTROL. ONE OF THOSE DAYS IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE OCEAN PI SAW A SHIP COMING BY AND
HIS HOPES OF BEING SAVED OVERWHELM HIM. WHEN THE SHIP WENT BY, HE THOUGHT HE
WOULD DIE OF HOPELESSNESS AND SHOUT IT TO RICHARD PARKER " I LOVE YOU
RICHARD PARKER!"
RICHARD PARKER GAVE PI THE WILL TO KEEP ON AND NOT GIVE UP.
RICHARD PARKER GAVE PI THE WILL TO KEEP ON AND NOT GIVE UP.
AS THE DAYS GO BY, PI HAD FOUND SOME DRINKING FLUIDS, PAPER
AND A WRITING UTENSIL. PI STARTED IT TO WRITE AND WRITE ON THE PAPER, HE KEPT
THOSE WRITING’S AS A DAIRY. ALL OF THE TIME THAT PI PUT ON WRITING HIS DAIRY
WAS A METHOD OF DISTRACTION FROM BEING STRANDED. ONE OF THOSE DAYS, PI SAY SOME
TRASH COMING BY THE LIFEBOAT AND HE TOOK AN EMPTY WINE BOTTLE. PI PUT ON THE
WINE BOTTLE A MESSAGE, “JAPANESE-OWNED CARGO SHIP TSIMTSUM, FLYING PANAMANIAN FLAG, SANK JULY 2ND, 1977,
IN PACIFIC, FOUR DAYS OUT OF MANILA. AM IN A LIFEBOAT. PI PATEL MY NAME. HAVE
SOME FOOD, SOME WATER, BUT BENGAL TIGER A SERIOUS PROBLEM. PLEASE ADVICE FAMILY
IN WINNIPEG, CANADA. ANY HELP VERY MUCH APRRECIATED. THANK YOU.”
THE EFFECTS OF THE SUN, HEAT
AND SALT WATER WERE AFFECTING EVERYTHING. THE LIFEBOAT AND EVERYTHING IN
IT WAS WORN AND TATTERED. RICHARD PARKER AND PI WERE WEAK AND STARVING. BOTH
WERE IN A STATE OF SEMI- CONSCIOUSNESS AND SLEPT MOST OF THE TIME. PI IN HIS
SEMI-CONSCIOUSNESS STATE BECAME DELIRIOUS AND IMAGINES THAT ANOTHER PERSON IS
ON THE LIFEBOAT WITH HIM AND THAT RICHARD PARKER KILLED HIM.
ONE DAY WHILE FLOATING IN THE LIFEBOAT PI SEES A
TREES IN THE DISTANCE. AT FIRST HE THOUGHT IT WAS AN ILLUSION BUT THE TREES
REMAINED AND AS PI GOT CLOSER, THE TREES BECAME A FOREST. THE TREES WERE VERY
UNUSUAL BECAUSE THEY HAD NO SOIL BUT GREW FROM A MASS OF TWINED SEAWEED. PI
FALLS INTO THE WATER AND PULLS HIMSELF ON TO THE ISLAND THERE THE SMELL OF
VEGETATION WAS VERY STRONG. PI DECIDES TO TASTE A SMALL PIECE OF ALGAE AND TO
HIS DELIGHT DISCOVERS THAT IT IS EDIBLE. RICHARD PARKER OBSERVED PI AND
ALTHOUGH HE WAS AFRAID HE JUMPED FROM THE BOAT AND DISAPPEARED INTO THE FOREST.
BOTH PI AND
RICHARD PARKER RETURNED TO THE LIFEBOAT IN THE EVENING. AS PI REGAINED HIS
STRENGTH HE DECIDED IT TO EXPLORE THE ISLAND HE FOUND THAT BESIDE THE FOREST OF
TREES THERE WERE THREE IDENTICAL PONDS. WHAT IMPRESSED PI THE MOST WAS THE
HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF MEERKATS THAT WERE ON THE ISLAND. THESE MEERKATS
WOULD TAKE DEAD FISH OUT OF THE POND. THE PONDS WERE FRESH WATER PONDS AND PI
SPENT DAYS EATING, DRINKING AND BATHING ON THE ISLAND. ONE-DAY RICHARD PARKER
ATTACK THE MEERKATS AND KILLED MORE THAT HE NEEDED. AS NIGHT APPROACH, THE
MEERKATS WOULD START CLIMBING THE TREES AND SO PI DECIDED TO SLEEP ON TOP OF
THE TREES. AS THE NIGHT START IT THE FRESHWATER PONDS CHANGED TO SALT WATER
PONDS AND DIFFERENT FISH CAME TO THE PONDS. IN HIS EXPLORATION PI DISCOVERS
THAT AT NIGHT THE PONDS BECAME VERY ACIDIC AND THE ACID KILLED WHAT EVER CAME
IN CONTACT WITH. PI REGAINS HIS STRENGTH ON THE ISLAND AND SO DID RICHARD
PARKER. WHEN RICHARD PARKER RETURNS TO THE LIFEBOAT PI PUSHED OFF THE ISLAND.
THE LIFEBOAT CARRIED THEM TO THE SHORE OF MEXICO. PI WAS
EXTREMELY WEAK AND STRUGGLE TO SHORE. PI WAS TRULY ALONE NOW BECAUSE RICHARD
PARKER HAD JUMPED OFF THE LIFEBOAT AND DISAPPEARED INTO THE JUNGLE WITHOUT
LOOKING BACK. AFTER SOME HOURS PASSED, SOME MEXICANS FOUND PI AND TOOK HIM TO
THEIR VILLAGE. THE MEXICANS GAVE HIM FOOD, BATH HIM AND GAVE HIM CLOTHING. THE
NEXT DAY SOME POLICEMAN TOOK PI TO THE HOSPITAL.
THE MAIN CONFLICT IS THAT PI HAS TO SURVIVE BEING IN A LIFEBOAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN WITH A DANGEROUS ROYAL BENGAL TIGER. PI HAS TO USE ALL OF HIS INTELLIGENCE, CREATIVITY AND ZOO EXPERIENCE IN ORDER TO SURVIVE. DURING PART 2 OF THE NOVEL THERE ARE SOME SMALL CONFLICTS. ONE OF THOSE CONFLICTS IS THAT AT FIRST THE HEYNA AND RICHARD PARKER ARE FIGHTING OVER TERRITORY. ANOTHER CONFLICT IS WHEN PI HAD SOME TROUBLE AND FEAR THAT THE HAEYNA OR RICHARD PARKER WOULD EAT HIM AND THE FEAR OF DROWNING. AS THE DAYS GO BUY THERE ARE MORE CONFLICTS SUCH AS, PI HAD A CONFLICT WITH RICHARD PARKER BECAUSE HE HAD TO PUT ASIDE HIS FEAR AND LOOK IN THE LIFEBOAT FOR FRESH WATER AND SURVIVAL EQUIPMENT. AS PI LOOK FOR SURVIVAL EQUIPMENT HE FOUND OUT THERE IS EQUIPMENT AND THAT THERE ARE: 192 TABLET OF ANTI-SEASICKNESS MEDICINE, 124 TIN CANS OF FRESH WATER, EACH CONTAINING 500 MILLILITERS, 32 VOMIT BAGS, 31 CARTONS OF EMERGENCY RATIONS, 16 WOOL BLANKETS, 12 SOLAR STILLS, 1O OR SO ORANGE LIFE JACKET WITH A WHISTLE, 6 MORPHINE AMPOULE SYRINGES, 6 HAND FLARES, 5 BUOYANT OARS, 4 ROCKET PARACHUTE FLARES, 3 TOUGH PLASTIC BAGS, 3 GRADUATED GLASS BEAKERS FOR DRINKING, 2 BOXES OF WATERPROOF MATCHES, 2 MULTI-PURPOSE PLASTIC CONTAINERS, 2 RECTANGULAR SPONGES, 2 BUOYANT SYNTHETIC ROPES, 2 NON-BUOYANT SYNTHETIC ROPES, 2 FISHING KITS WITH HOOKS, 2 GAFFS WITH VERY SHARP BARBER HOOKS, 2 SEA ANCHORS, 2 HATCHETS, 2 RAIN CATCHERS, 2 BLACK INK PEN, 1 NYLON CARGO NET, 1 SOLID LIFEBOUY, 1 LAGER HUNTING KNIFE, I SEWING KIT, 1 FIRST AID KIT, 1 SIGNALING MIRROR, 1 PACK OF CIGARETTES, 1 LARGE BAR OF DARK CHOCOLATE, 1 SURVIVAL MANUAL, 1 COMPASS,1 NOTEBOOK, 1 BOY WITH A COMPLETE SET OF LIGHT CLOTHING BUT FOR ONE LOST SHOE, 1 SPOTTED HYENA, 1 BENGAL TIGER, 1 LIFEBOAT, 1 OCEAN AND 1 GOD.
IN ADDITION TO THE OTHER CONFLICTS PI AND RICHARD PARKER HAD
A CONFLICT ON WHO HAS CONTROL, PI USES A WHISTLE AND ROLLING OF THE LIFE BOAT
TO CONTROL RICHARD PARKER. WHEN PI AND RICHARD PARKER WERE FIGHTING OVER WHO
GETS CONTROL, THEY FINALLY STARED AT EACH OTHER. ALSO PI HAD ANOTHER CONFLICT
WITH HIMSELF THAT HIS APPREHENSION AND ANXIETY DID NOT LET HIM SLEEP MORE THAN
ONE HOUR OF SLEEP. FINALLY PI HAS A CONFLICT, WHEN HE WAS YOUNG HE WAS A
VEGETARIAN BUT HE NOW HAD TO ACCOMMODATE TO THE NEW DIET, HE HAD TO EAT MEAT,
FISH AND DRINK BLOOD FROM THE OTHER ANIMALS.
THE PLOT DEVELOPMENT IS THAT PI’S FAMILY DIES ON THE
SUNKEN SHIP, PI IS LEFT ALONE WITH WILD ANIMALS ON A LIFEBOAT IN THE MIDDLE OF
THE PACIFIC OCEAN. PI USES HIS RELIGIOUS BELIEFS TO HELP HIM FACED THE LOST OF
HIS FAMILY AND THE ORDEAL OF THE LIFEBOAT. THE THEME IS THE POWER OF WANTING TO SURVIVE OVERCOMES THE
POWER OF FEAR. ANOTHER THEME IS THE HUMAN DESIRE FOR COMPANIONSHIP. SOME OF THE
SYMBOLS IN PART 2 ARE THE LIFEBOAT WAS A SYMBOL IN THE STORY BECAUSE THE LIFEBOAT
IS A PART OF PI'S AND RICHARD PARKER LIFE. ANOTHER SYMBOL IS RICHARD
PARKER BECAUSE HE WAS THE COMPANION THAT KEPT PI HOPES FOR SURVIVAL. THE POINT
OF VIEW OF PART 2 IS
WRITTEN IN THE FIRST PERSON.
MY REACTION TO PART 2 IS THAT IS WAS BETTER THAN PART 1 BECAUSE IT HAD MORE DRAMA, ACTION AND ADVENTUROUS. ALSO IT SHOWED HOW PI'S FEAR WERE BECOMING A PROBLEM/CONFLICT. I LIKE ALSO HOW THE AUTHOR YANN MARTEL DESCRIBES EACH SCENE AND GETS THE READERS ATTENTION.
MY REACTION TO PART 2 IS THAT IS WAS BETTER THAN PART 1 BECAUSE IT HAD MORE DRAMA, ACTION AND ADVENTUROUS. ALSO IT SHOWED HOW PI'S FEAR WERE BECOMING A PROBLEM/CONFLICT. I LIKE ALSO HOW THE AUTHOR YANN MARTEL DESCRIBES EACH SCENE AND GETS THE READERS ATTENTION.
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