Life Of Pi Research Articles

Media Aesthetics in the Application of Film Innovative Technology: Cases of Ang Lee"s Films

The continuous innovation of film technology has provided increasing methods and possibilities for realizing the aesthetic senses of film scenes. This research takes Ang Lee’s works as the research and analysis objects and implements case studies on films such as Hulk, shot by computer-generated imagery（CGI）in 2003, Life of Pi, made by 3D and computer graphics（CG） in 2012, as well as Billy Lynn

Visualizing Trauma in 3D – Ang Lee’s Life of Pi

Visualizing Trauma in 3D – Ang Lee’s Life of Pi

The Metaphor of House and Post-Colonial Identity Formation in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

Since its publication in 2001, Life of Pi has been interpreted from various perspectives, such as biblical allusion (Kyser), shipwreck narrative (Dwyer), maternal cannibalism (Thorn) and cultural m...

Three Ways of Looking at a Tiger: Animal Minds in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

Engagement with animals is a central theme in Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi, reflected and shaped by the character-narrator Pi’s reading of animal minds. The article examines attributions of minds to animals in three types of encounters with them: observation, interaction, and narration. While in childhood Pi tends to project human temperaments and emotions onto animals, he is forced to recognize animals’ species-specific experiences as the shipwreck foregrounds his embodiment. As such, the novel introduces the logic of nonhuman psychology into narrative development, formulating an intersubjective and interspecies relationship. Furthermore, at the end of the novel, it alerts us to intellectual and therapeutic functions of animals as narrative elements through comparison between representations of human and animal minds. The text not only identifies different presences of animals in the human world, but generates insights into how narrative in general conveys and responds to complex human-animal entanglements in our reality.

God, Man, and Nature: Life for Reason and the Reason Behind the Universe – A Panentheistic Approach to Life of Pi

Abstract This article intends to lay out a comparative study of Karma philosophy and literature scrutinizing Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi through a panentheistic approach. Because Karma is one of the predominant philosophies in the novel and permeates the general atmosphere, this article intends to scrutinize Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi through a panentheistic approach. Although karma is a very complex issue, since anyone committing evil acts can claim to be a mere agent of karma delivering punishment to others for sins they committed in their past lives, it is true that according to karma, our actions have consequences which affect the entirety of our lives, and this can also be seen as free will. Yet while this approach tends to focus on the action and reaction mechanisms of life, the flow of life in the universe should still be carefully contemplated, since if we believe the first story, Pi’s survival not only depends on his choices, but also on the opportunities that the universe offers him. In that sense, if we are to accept God as the soul of the universe, then the universal spirit must be omnipresent and omnipotent while also capable of transforming into anything in terms of s panentheistic approach. Thus God, being greater than the universe, is the ultimate force that balances everything, and is also the biggest karma controller. For this reason, this article analyzes Life of Pi from both inductive and deductive slants to demonstrate that all roads lead to God, the omniscient.

Toward Transnationalism

With social and economic boundaries receding, transnationalism is a fast-growing phenomenon in the world. The article highlights the journey undertaken in the novel Life of Pi by the protagonist across several countries, justifying the thought that staying unconditionally loyal to one nation is futile. In contemporary times with a shift in social, economic, and cultural terms, the nation stands deterritorialized. Reaching out across borders in a world where distance and time have crumbled is looked upon as the beginning of the idea of transnationalism. Even the relationship of the protagonist with the unexplored islands has undergone change. Bereft of family, he is a castaway on unknown terrain, a victim of the unforeseen wrath of nature and in intimidation of the island, which he has to leave soon. Shifting focus of the present humanity is explored in the article, establishing the argument of change in the contemporary thought and lifestyle.

The Irony in Ang Lee’s Life of Pi

This paper investigates and analyses the irony in Ang Lee’s movie: Life of Pi (2012). Irony is one type of satire figure of speech, a language style that is used as a subtle insinuation and contains statements that are very contradictory or inversely proportional to the existing reality. Furthermore, there are three most commonly used irony in literature, which are verbal, situational, and dramatic. The research method applied is descriptive analytic to describe the meaning and context of irony found in Life of Pi. The conclusion is that Ang Lee’s Life of Pi is full of situational irony, thus makes it fascinating to watch and to discuss. Besides, dramatic irony was also found, and it was applied in order to preserve the audience interest’s, provoke curiosity, and make a contrast between the situation of the characters and the later scene that ultimately unfolded. This paper also shows that the cinematographic aspect related to the analysed narration could dramatically add insightful meanings to the irony.

THE CHARACTERISATIONS OF PISCINE MOLITOR PATEL IN YAN MARTELL’S THE LIFE OF PI

Literature like novels can contain many moral teachings, including how a human being develops into a better person because of certain events experienced during the plot development. The present study focuses on the character development of Piscine Molitor Patel in Yan Martell's The Life of Pi as he had to survive the Pacific Ocean for 227 days on a lifeboat with a hungry tiger. By employing close reading, it is revealed that Piscine Molitor Patel was revealed as a curious, smart, competitive, empathetic, obedient, loving, and humble character. These characterizations were revealed directly through the author's description and indirectly through thought, speech, and action. From these character revelations, it can be concluded that the development of Pi’s curious, smart, competitive, empathetic, obedient, loving, and humble character had help Pi survive the Pacific Ocean and continued living as a better person. By employing Freud’s psychoanalysis, Pi’s characterizations were then classified as reflections of his id, ego, and superego. The present study concludes that Pi’s characterizations reflect the development of the balance between his id, ego, and superego, which allowed him to survive the shipwreck and grow into a better person.

Trauma and Testimony as Cure: A Study of Yann Martel's Life of Pi

Trauma and Testimony as Cure: A Study of Yann Martel's Life of Pi

Using Life of Pi Novel to Promote Character Education in English Class

The objective of this research is to design English learning material for Junior High School in Indonesia. The material developed is intended as supplementary material to promote character education in English class. The material designed is based on Martel’s Life of Pi novel published in 2001. This novel is about Pi’s strategies to survive in the middle of the ocean and therefore it is suitable to promote character education. The developed material consists of four units. Each unit consists of reading, vocabulary, writing, group work and reflection. The four aspects of character education to learn are appreciate others, respect older people, be grateful and appreciate God’s creatures. Unit I consists of activities and materials to promote appreciation for others. Unit II deals with respecting the elders. Unit III is designed to promote gratefulness. While Unit IV is aimed at appreciation of God’s creatures. Research and Development is used as the method in conducting the study and designing the material. The instruments are including open-ended questionnaire, the themes found in “Life of Pi” Novel and one week observation during the English subject in the class. The developed material has been evaluated and deemed as very good after the revision. The tasks are considered as suitable for Junior High School students, the reading material is appropriate and the layout is interesting. The supplementary material is necessary due to the fact that the textbooks used in the Junior High School do not cover character education.

Eco-psychology and The Role of Animals to Heal Trauma in Life of Pi

Eco-psychology and The Role of Animals to Heal Trauma in Life of Pi

Questioning rationality: Martel’s philosophy of transpersonal self in Life of Pi

In the novel Life of Pi. the story uses a human-animal story to articulate Martel’s transpersonal aesthetics which reconsiders traditional Western philosophical notions of the self, maturity, and rationality. The naming of Martel’s protagonist enacts a symbolic subversion of the subject-object hierarchy, placing the self in a relational continuum with other inanimate and insentient beings. It also blurs the boundary between humanity and animality, thus questioning the role of Western rationality which defines the self as a perfection of unity, autonomy, and independence. The novel also sets forth the notion of a transpersonal, transcultural self through religious pluralism, and expresses an ecological, metaphysical self coterminous with the entire universe. Martel’s philosophical reflection on the transpersonal self expresses the need for breaking the limits Western philosophy has imposed on the boundary of the self.

‘Which Story do you Prefer?’: The Limits of the Symbolic in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

Abstract This article investigates the symbolic and the material in Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi. I develop through psychoanalytical and phenomenological argumentation a reading of Martel’s book as an updating of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, in the sense that each tempts its protagonist to try to glimpse the presence of the divine within the indifferent mutability of animal natures. Like Ishmael, who alternatively perceives Ahab as Jonah and Job, Martel’s castaway Piscine asks us to choose which ‘story’ about the universe we prefer, one in which nature is a window into God’s mind, and the other in which it refuses us this desire.

Schrödinger’s Tiger: Names, Stories, Belief and Truth in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

SummaryAlthough scholarship has reflected on aspects of spirituality and postmodernism in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, the curious and colourful names of the characters have not yet been investigated in any depth. This study links the names and (re)namings to the novel’s thematic concern with storytelling and truth, arguing that names go to the heart of one of the novel’s main thematic concerns, namely the dichotomy between what things are and what they are called. Truth and lies become just different ways to describe phenomena whose deepest reality exists beyond language. The novel casts doubt on the ability of words and stories to capture truth, actual events and actions. I examine ways in which names and the characters they denote are emblematic of stories and the events they denote. But Life of Pi is not merely a book about truth, it is also about spirituality, which, like truth and lies, is premised on the existence of something beyond language. The protagonist, Pi, experiences his world and God through opposites that make up a whole. The analysis of names in this novel illuminates the intersection between, stories, truth and spirituality.

The Multidimensional Perspective and Impact of Media-Induced Tourism over Indian Tourism Sector

Indian tourism sector is one of the world’s leading excursion zone. As per the India Brand Equity Foundation [IBEF]. India has 30 world heritage sites to showcase its rich tourism diversity. In 2018, The Foreign Tourism Arrivals [FTA] was recorded approx. 10.6 crores which are a whopping 5% escalation from the previous year. Indian movies are way popular throughout the world. Several Oscar-winning movies were shot in India. Some of them are Life of Pi (2012), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Gandhi (1982) etc. With the popularities of these movies, scenes and location too got popular. The worldwide popularity of such movies escalates the tourism business catalytically. The escalation of tourism leads to improved tourism revenue, jobs, foreign exchange and occupation. The media-induced tourism is the key to the growth of a country’s tourism income but sustainable planning is needed to encash tourism revenue. Even after receiving the tourist major concern are tourist safety, comfort, expenditure, visa process and a lot more. Our proposed paper is about the discussion over cinematographic tourism, the relation of film-induced tourism and measures taken over the upliftment of media-induced tourism.

Tradução e retradução do romance "Life of Pi": estudo exploratório de estilística tradutória com base em corpus paralelo bilíngue inglês/português

Este artigo relata um estudo exploratório inicial e parcial de estilística tradutória baseado em corpus paralelo bilíngue inglês/português, de modo a comparar escolhas paradigmáticas e sintagmáticas de duas traduções de um mesmo texto-fonte no engendramento dos estilos dos textos traduzidos. Examinam-se a tradução e a retradução do primeiro capítulo do romance Life of Pi de Yann Martel em termos de quantidade de itens, formas e hapax legomena; razão forma/item; número de períodos; comprimento médio dos períodos; número de parágrafos; e escolhas lexicais e sintáticas. O estudo evidencia variações nos estilos da tradução e da retradução e sugere linhas para investigações futuras.

The Maturity Process of Pi in Life of Pi

This thesis discusses the process of maturity of Pi in Life of Pi. I am curious to find out how Pi is mature from his childhood, teenager, and adulthood. Therefore, I use Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development to find out the influence of the society that Pi lives in. In each stage of Pi’s development, I study his character traits and I see the outcome. In addition, I am using psychological development to find out what is inside Pi’s mind and what is his way of thinking. Throughout the process, Pi faces some obstacles or psychosocial crisis from his surroundings especially from his father and friends in his childhood and early teenager years. However, because of the obstacles from his surroundings, Pi becomes mature in taking his actions and decisions. In addition, Pi faces a big situation that is surviving in the sea with Richard Parker. I can see from this experience, Pi finds his identities that are self-acceptance, compassion, patience, honesty, gratitude, self-control, accountability, open-mindedness, and humility. Despite the hardship from his childhood and teenage years, Pi manages to be emotionally mature. As a result, Pi is indeed mature in his life and it can be seen in his adulthood. Pi has an intimate relationship with his wife and children. Keywords: Maturity Process, Identity, Role Confusion, Adulthood, Life of Pi

Orientalism and Re-Orientalism in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

Yann Martel expresses his Orientalism and describes Pi’s Re-Orientalism in Life of Pi. Martel’s Orientalism presents the typical postcolonial writing model, which constructs a postcolonial exotic. Pi’s Re-Orientalism reflects a diasporic Eastern boy’s desire and identity in the West. The survival story for Pi and the Bengal tiger is a metaphor for Pi to grow up to be a true western man. Martel uses paratexts such as the author’s note, author’s interview with the protagonist Pi, records for a Japanese investigation on the truth, and inserts into the protagonist Pi’s narration, which expose the hidden intention for latent cultural hegemony. The departure of Richard Parker represents Pi’s final conforming to Western culture.

VERBAL PHRASES IN THE NOVEL LIFE OF PI: A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS

This study is intended to find out the types and functions of verbal phrases used in the novel Life of Pi. This research belongs to descriptive qualitative research, where the data are not analyzed by using statistical procedure; the data in this research are taken from the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel. To collect the data the writer uses the noting technique. The first step, the writer read and observed carefully to find out the verbal phrases. Then, the writer took notes of the sentences contained verbal phrases in Life of Pi, and then analyzed the data by classifying the verbal phrases and finding the function of verbal phrases. The research finding shows that there are three types of verbal phrases used in the novel Life of Pi, namely, gerund phrase, infinitive phrase, and participial phrase. Each type of verbal phrases has a different function. The researcher finds three functions of verbal phrases, namely noun, adjective, and adverb. Gerund phrase functions as a noun. Infinitive phrase functions as a noun, an adjective, and an adverb. Participial phrase functions as an adjective and as an adverb.

Made in Taiwan: paratexts of Life of Pi and a dynamic sense of place

ABSTRACTThis article looks into how cultural products produced by Hollywood’s runaway productions re-enter overseas societies that were involved in the productions and how audiences in these societies interact with such products. While global media scholars have examined Hollywood’s relocation of its production sites to overseas locations and its impact on these locations, their examination is limited at the levels of production and representation. This article thus suggests that the interrogation of this impact needs to be extended to the levels of distribution and consumption by using a case study of the film, Life of Pi (2012). Although the film was produced by 20th Century Fox, more than 70 percent of its scenes were filmed in Taiwan. Through analyzing discourses and paratexts surrounding the film produced by both media industries and Taiwanese audiences, I argue that distributors and Taiwanese audiences revealed and reconstructed the sense of Taiwaneseness, which was obliterated in the film. Drawing on and expanding scholarly discussion on transnational media distribution and consumption, I delineate the complex relationship among transnational practices at levels of production, representation, distribution, and consumption as well as dynamic power relations between Hollywood and its overseas production locations.