AHS seniors discuss Life of Pi's issues related both to the book and to their lives.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

2009 Working Thesis Statements

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27 Comments:

Blogger Dani H said...

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs depicts the requirements of humans’ in a building manner to fulfill self actualization; Yann Martel in Life of Pi embodies survival with a distortion of the different levels to achieve survival. Dani Howe

9:57 AM

 
Blogger sarahc said...

In Life of Pi, Pi uses a Bengal tiger to represent the grief he feels for his family, in order to face off with it; Yann Martel argues that dissociating from an experience, in certain situations, is a good tactic.

10:40 AM

 
Blogger Matt F said...

• Pi ‘s Journey not just at sea was a long and rough one, but did it actually happen or did we just perceive what we were believing to be happening because that’s how our minds saw it, and if it didn’t happen, then what did if anything. Matt Fitzgerald

10:41 AM

 
Blogger KatieR said...

In Life of Pi, each of the animals symbolically represents an aspect of Pi and as the animals die that characteristic of Pi dies along with it destroying Pi’s core person.

10:41 AM

 
Blogger rachelf said...

Despite the fact that Yann Martel has the readers believe that Pi’s story is really about humans; by using Carl Jung’s psychoanalytical literary theory, readers see the balance that Pi creates for himself from the animals.

10:43 AM

 
Blogger akrmholz said...

Throughout the book Life of Pi, Pi continued to look for religion for survival. Religion gave him the hope and the will to survive for so long even though he was likely to die. Yann Martel uses Pi’s three separate religions to represent the will he has to survive.

10:44 AM

 
Blogger alex_a said...

Throughout PI’s journey in Yann Martel’s text, The Life of Pi, religion is used to occupy his mind and give him hope when he otherwise would have none, because religion forces him to believe in something he cannot see, which is similar to the hope he will need to make it to land in his journey.

10:44 AM

 
Blogger kwhittemore said...

Topic #8
Thesis statements-
1. Despite the indifferences between animals and humans, in the book Life of Pi by Yann Martel, it connects a hyena and a tiger by there personalities to the main caracter Pi.
2. By understanding the Hyena and the Tiger personaility in the book Life of Pi by Yann Martel, it allows the readers to connect with Pi.

2:00 PM

 
Blogger Jessica B said...

In the book, Life of Pi, Yann Martel uses the symbol π to represent Pi’s character because the number π never ends like Pi’s will to live.

8:28 PM

 
Blogger Unknown said...

Sarah K.
Topic #8 Despite the physical differences between humans and animals, Martel uses a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and tiger to highlight the different aspects of Pi's personality.

11:20 AM

 
Blogger DavisH said...

In Life of Pi, Yann Martel uses Maslow's hierarchy of needs to show that human's survive in a building manner, starting with level 1 and building there way up to level 5, as they figure out tactics and accomplish goals. (Davis H)

1:04 PM

 
Blogger kaseyb said...

Kasey B. - In a close reading analysis of chapters 21 and 22 of the novel Life of Pi, author Yann Martel reveals a deep meaning of Pi’s world that is the key to the culmination of the book, as well as describing the main point of love and how that connects with Pi in the novel.

1:24 PM

 
Blogger Laura M. said...

Laura M.
1. Yann Martel helps us understand the difficult situations Pi went through by comparing his circumstances to Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

2.Despite the hierarchy of needs, Yann Martel provides examples of Pi's life to show the stages of his life.

5:56 PM

 
Blogger KenneyLynn Mauve said...

In "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel, Martel uses Pi as a character that goes through a journey across the ocean; with this he has shown us an aspect of his life as he went on a ride of his own and how he dealt with trials he faced.
Topic #13: choose your own, but feeding off of Topic #10

6:45 PM

 
Blogger rachaelk said...

Everyone needs food and water to survive, Yann Mertel in Life of Pi uses hunger and thirst to show that there will be changes in life that require risks and different necessities. --Rachael Knox

7:58 PM

 
Blogger Joyce B. said...

Despite the fact that Pi had to learn to survive in a life boat in the middle of the ocean, his journey was more challenging mentally than physically due to all the loss he had to endure.

8:44 PM

 
Blogger Brian L said...

Throughout the book Life of Pi, religion can be traced as one of the biggest modems of Pi’s aspirations from growing up in India to living on a raft in the Pacific Ocean to getting saved in Mexico.

9:48 PM

 
Blogger ElizabethG said...

Yann Martel depicts in his novel Life of Pi, that it doesn't matter what religion a person follows; they all in essence with hold the same ideology of bettering oneself and determining the meaning of who a person is.

11:31 PM

 
Blogger smm said...

sarah m
Although Pi endured many physical challenges during the time of his life spent on the boat, his mental and spirtual journey was much more rewarding in the end, ultimately giving Pi what he had been seeking all along.

7:02 AM

 
Blogger Brendan P said...

Topic #8
In Yann Martel's Life of Pi Richard Parker symbolizes fears in life arguing that when one face one's apprehensions can a person over come and become truly brave.

12:56 PM

 
Blogger Chase K. said...

topic #9

Martel is conveying that humans will do everything in their power to survive. Humans can give up most things until only the basics are left, then the "survival of the fittest" mode kicks in and we do everything in our power to fulfil our basic needs.

3:11 PM

 
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