Life of Pi
Author: Yann Martel
Pages: 314/ 314
Hello dear blog readers! My group and I have finished "The Life of Pi", and my overall impressions are not very positive. The book does simply not suite me, and I dislike books that are not very direct in terms of the plot and what is going on. In general, I personally dislike the book. This time, my role was to be the "Travel Tracer". What the "Travel Tracer" does, is he/she tracks and describes the setting during one period of the book. In this case, I explained the settings from the 200th to the 314th page. Here is what I wrote for each one of the points:
1. Where does the action begin?
- The action begins in Pi's lifeboat/raft. He and his comrade, Richard Parker, are oaring the seas in search for any signs of human life. Pi is forced to do many rigorous and difficult tasks, and it is truly a struggle to survive for him and Parker. Despite the odds, Pi manages to maintain order and survive on the little raft. At one point, he starts loosing control, and he is forced to "tame" Richard Parker.
2. Where the key/crucial events happen?
- The key events still occur on the boat, but the weather conditions happen to be much more different than before. Pi and Richard are forced to battle a ferocious storm, and are struggling to keep the boat from capsizing and sinking. After the storm subsides, Pi and Parker notice a huge oil tanker in the distance, but due to poor aiming by Pi, the tanker misses and nearly sinks the little boat. With this hopeless turn of events, the two are driven into madness in the wide blue ocean, without even a little speck of potential land.
3. Where the final events occur?
- The final events occur in a variety of different settings. Luckily for the two, after some time, they manage to reach land, but it is only a un-inhabited and wild island. After stocking up on resources and necessities, the two characters continue their struggle to reach shore. At one point, Pi becomes completely mad, and his boat turns over along with him, and he looses consciousness. Despite these ill tidings, through a major dose of luck, Pi, without Richard Parker, manages to coincidentally wash up on land. After this, he is spotted by a group of people from a village, and the people rush in to help. Despite the point that Pi and these people speak different languages (they speak Spanish), the villagers call the ambulance, and Pi is rushed into the hospital. It would turn out he washed ashore a coast in Mexico. After he is hospitalized and aided, an inspection from the company which the "Tsimtsum" belong to, came to talk with Pi. Pi explains all his ordeals and near death situations, but the Japanese company negates his theory, and here the book ends.
This is most likely by last blog post of the year, so I do hope that you did enjoy all or at least some of my posts this school year. After the summer, I will return. Hope you tune in for the next post! NL
Author: Yann Martel
Pages: 314/ 314
Hello dear blog readers! My group and I have finished "The Life of Pi", and my overall impressions are not very positive. The book does simply not suite me, and I dislike books that are not very direct in terms of the plot and what is going on. In general, I personally dislike the book. This time, my role was to be the "Travel Tracer". What the "Travel Tracer" does, is he/she tracks and describes the setting during one period of the book. In this case, I explained the settings from the 200th to the 314th page. Here is what I wrote for each one of the points:
1. Where does the action begin?
- The action begins in Pi's lifeboat/raft. He and his comrade, Richard Parker, are oaring the seas in search for any signs of human life. Pi is forced to do many rigorous and difficult tasks, and it is truly a struggle to survive for him and Parker. Despite the odds, Pi manages to maintain order and survive on the little raft. At one point, he starts loosing control, and he is forced to "tame" Richard Parker.
2. Where the key/crucial events happen?
- The key events still occur on the boat, but the weather conditions happen to be much more different than before. Pi and Richard are forced to battle a ferocious storm, and are struggling to keep the boat from capsizing and sinking. After the storm subsides, Pi and Parker notice a huge oil tanker in the distance, but due to poor aiming by Pi, the tanker misses and nearly sinks the little boat. With this hopeless turn of events, the two are driven into madness in the wide blue ocean, without even a little speck of potential land.
3. Where the final events occur?
- The final events occur in a variety of different settings. Luckily for the two, after some time, they manage to reach land, but it is only a un-inhabited and wild island. After stocking up on resources and necessities, the two characters continue their struggle to reach shore. At one point, Pi becomes completely mad, and his boat turns over along with him, and he looses consciousness. Despite these ill tidings, through a major dose of luck, Pi, without Richard Parker, manages to coincidentally wash up on land. After this, he is spotted by a group of people from a village, and the people rush in to help. Despite the point that Pi and these people speak different languages (they speak Spanish), the villagers call the ambulance, and Pi is rushed into the hospital. It would turn out he washed ashore a coast in Mexico. After he is hospitalized and aided, an inspection from the company which the "Tsimtsum" belong to, came to talk with Pi. Pi explains all his ordeals and near death situations, but the Japanese company negates his theory, and here the book ends.
This is most likely by last blog post of the year, so I do hope that you did enjoy all or at least some of my posts this school year. After the summer, I will return. Hope you tune in for the next post! NL
