Compare And Contrast Unbroken And Life Of Pi
Life of Pi Essay Pi’s terrible sea troubles in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi are very similar to those of the troublemaker Louis Zamperini in Unbroken. The life of the young, smart, little Pi is not far from different from that of the middle age military man Louis Zamperini. This essay is about the similarities in the books Life of Pi and Unbroken. Turns out they seem to be very similar. These stories are both about people (Pi and Louis), who were wrecked at sea and became lost at sea. Both of these stories are very similar. Both Pi and Louis had troubles before any of this happened. First of all Pi’s name is actually Piscine Molitor, yet many of the town kids made fun of him and called him Pissing. He truly hated that, yet no one respected
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They had roughly three cans of food that they were going to eat over a period of time. Sadly one of the men couldn’t fight the urge and ate them overnight. They had to start searching for food. They caught a fish after trying, and trying. They thought they would have no problem eating the raw fish because they were starving, they thought wrong. They were trying to force it down their throats or they would starve. Pi had tons of cans of food. Plenty to save him for a long time. Yet after it was gone, he also had to start searching for food. He caught fish no problem, but he felt remorse after killing it. He felt bad. You’d think you would be overjoyed after catching food that could very well save your life. Yet I believe one of the worst parts of Life of Pi was when Pi said, “On the day when I estimated it was Mother’s birthday, I sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to her out loud” (Martel 264)
You’d think that being found after being lost at sea would have you overjoyed. Louis was overjoyed at first, until he realized it was the Japanese Army that found him. He was about to go through some more rough things. Pi was a little out of it, yet he was scared when he realized he turned up in Mexico and the Japanese were interrogating him. Neither of them were happy at the time with being found, yet if Pi would have been out there a little longer, he wouldn’t have lasted much longer in the situation he was
They had roughly three cans of food that they were going to eat over a period of time. Sadly one of the men couldn’t fight the urge and ate them overnight. They had to start searching for food. They caught a fish after trying, and trying. They thought they would have no problem eating the raw fish because they were starving, they thought wrong. They were trying to force it down their throats or they would starve. Pi had tons of cans of food. Plenty to save him for a long time. Yet after it was gone, he also had to start searching for food. He caught fish no problem, but he felt remorse after killing it. He felt bad. You’d think you would be overjoyed after catching food that could very well save your life. Yet I believe one of the worst parts of Life of Pi was when Pi said, “On the day when I estimated it was Mother’s birthday, I sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to her out loud” (Martel 264)
You’d think that being found after being lost at sea would have you overjoyed. Louis was overjoyed at first, until he realized it was the Japanese Army that found him. He was about to go through some more rough things. Pi was a little out of it, yet he was scared when he realized he turned up in Mexico and the Japanese were interrogating him. Neither of them were happy at the time with being found, yet if Pi would have been out there a little longer, he wouldn’t have lasted much longer in the situation he was