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The movie  Life of Pi dives into the story of Pi Patel, and Indian man who grew up in South India and later, through a crazy story, found his way to the United States. While traveling, his ship carrying zoo animals had sunk, and Pi found himself stuck on a life boat with a zebra and a tiger. The story surrounds his journey on the boat finding his way home. The part of the story I will be diving into however is the beginning, his cultural upbringing. The movie is depicted as an older Pi reflects on his past for a prospective biography writer, which gives Pi a chance to explain how his upbringing had effected how he viewed this adventure both through his culture and religions. Pi had a traditional Indian family structure, growing up working with his father and helping his mother around the home. Pi grows up with great respect and affection towards his brother, Ravi, as well which he explained plays out in the way he treated the animals on the boat with him with a similar type of love. Pi however sometimes had a problem with the way his father had treated the animals he worked with, which was occasionally in a more violent sense, and that aspect of the job was always a struggle for him, which explains the way he would not act violently towards the animals on the boa. Nutritionally, Pi grew up practicing three religions, Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. This different style of religion sometimes had him an outsider amongst people in India, yet it had also led to a more rooted life and virtues. Moving forward in the movie, it is at times hard to watch the trauma that Pi goes through, and for me personally, watching the aggression of the tiger towards the zebra who in a sense represents Pi, was not pleasant. Knowing that the movie is based on a true story also just keeps the anticipation high throughout the film. Pi goes through many struggles throughout his early life as well as his adventure on the boat, and he discovers a strong identity within himself and who he is, as well as realizing a new sense of self and appreciation for life. I highly recommend this movie if you have not seen it!

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Life of Pi: The Contrast Between Words and Visuals

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Works Cited

• Martel, Y. (2001). Life of Pi. Canongate Books.
• Lee, A. (Director). (2012). Life of Pi [Film]. 20th Century Fox.
• McElroy, S. (2014). "Life of Pi: From Novel to Film." The Quintessential Guide to Film Adaptation, 161-172.
• Kim, M. H. (2013). "The Art of Survival: Adaptation and Resilience in Life of Pi." Literature/Film Quarterly, 41(3), 208-222.
• Chaudhuri, S. (2014). "Adaptation and its Discontents: Yann Martel's Life of Pi." Adaptation, 7(1), 54-69.
• Camy, G. (2015). "Beyond The Text: Transmedial Strategies of Adaptation in Life of Pi." Enthymema, 14, 127-145.
• Hollis, L. (2015). "Reality, Fantasy, and the Question of Adaptation: Life of Pi as Literature and Film." Comparative Literature Studies, 52(4), 770-795.
• Serrano-Vicente, R. (2016). "Adapting 'The Unadaptable': Life of Pi from Novel to Film." In P. D. Pardo & R. Serrano-Vicente (Eds.), Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation: Literature, Film, and the Arts (pp. 115-130). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• McNulty, J. (2018). "The Problem of Untranslatable Words: The Film Adaptation of Life of Pi." Adaptation, 11(1), 87-102.
• Wagner, R. (2019). "Between Fact and Fiction: Narrative Strategies and Adaptation in Life of Pi." Comparative Literature and Culture, 21(3), 1-12.

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