"At length, as slowly as a caravan of camels crossing a desert, some thoughts came together" (134).
Pi's thoughts are coming very slowly, just like camels crossing a desert don't move very fast. Pi imagines himself as if he in a caravan, but in reality, he is alone with a few animals on a small life raft in the Pacific Ocean. The animals and Pi create their own caravan in the middle of the largest ocean. A caravan in a desert has nothing but sand and more desert around them. Pi and his animals are floating aimlessly through the Pacific Ocean with nothing around them but water and more ocean.
I absolutely agree with Bethany. I want to add that deserts seem never-ending when you are in the middle of one. Also oceans seem never-ending when you are in the middle of one. This means that Pi's thoughts are never-ending. His thoughts are never-ending because thoughts reflect your surroundings, and his surrounding is an irrational body of water that keeps going and going, so his thoughts were just like his surroundings. He kept getting thoughts that weren't connected, but he soon started connecting his thoughts just as Bethany said," just like camels crossing a desert".
"A tiger aboard and I had waited three days and three nights to save my life!"(150). Martel has incorporated a biblical allusion known to most every Christian in the world. Pi had waited three days and three nights to save his life. This is in a direct reference to the biblical story were Jesus died on the cross. Jesus was put in a tomb, and three days later when one of Jesus's prophets came to retrieve his body he was gone. Jesus had risen from the dead on that third day. This biblical allusion is relevant to Pi’s current life because just as Jesus “got out of death” Pi is trying to escape death. He is trying to escape being mauled by Richard Parker a 450 pound tiger, by building a raft and attaching it to the lifeboat. The lifeboat is like the cross and the raft is Pi escaping death just as Jesus did.
"A tiger aboard and I had waited three days and three nights to save my life!"(150). In "Life of Pi" Yann Martel uses the biblical allusion from Jesus dying, and coming back to life three days later. Some people might think that he used this in a sense that Jesus rose out of death, and Pi is trying to escape death in the form of a 450 pound tiger, but I think different. When Jesus died and rose again he had a new life, and Pi is the same. Pi leaving India, the Tsimtsum sinking, and his family dying is how Pi's old life died. If he was going to get out of this he would be living on the complete other side of the world, and have no family to support him. So this long voyage for Pi is like the three days for Jesus he's trying to rise from the dead.
Steggs, I really like this quote you chose. That is a very good example of an allusion and it represents what Pi was thinking very well about the tiger (Richard Parker). I love what you talked about after that Pi waiting for three days. I liked the way you had an idea about Pi's current life because it is very important that people know about him.
I’m not so sure if this is an illusion precisely from the bible; however, it is one to Christianity or Catholicism as a whole. “Her arms were spread wide open and her short legs were folded together and turned to one side. She looked like a simian Christ on the Cross” (Martel 132). I’m sure that an orangutan doesn’t look a whole lot like Jesus, but her position does. Just like the passage states, it is alluding to the famous telling and depiction of Jesus Christ on the cross after his persecution. Jesus chose to be put up on the cross so that his followers or friends did not have to be there. Depicting Orange Juice as Christ in a way shows the chimp’s intelligent and caring nature. I began to think that maybe Yann Martel was showing here how Orange Juice gave up her life to the hyena so that Pi didn’t have to. Maybe the orangutan was very smart, and still cared for Pi, like when they were friends and Orange Juice used to nurture him like he would her own child.
Mckenna! I am so glad that you did this post! I agree completely with you and when I read this passage, I made the exact same connection as you did. How Orange Juice is dying to save Pi's life. This is very much the nature of Jesus. He died on the cross to save people from their sins. I think Yann Martel did this allusion on purpose, and used the Orange Juice to show how Orange Juice is strong but also loving or at least orangutans in general.
"Animals were sedated, cages were loaded and secured, feed was stored, bunks were assigned, lines were tossed, and whistles were blown"(Martel 91). This is specifically alluding to the story of Noah's Ark in the Old Testament. In both stories they were trying to flee from somewhere or something. Noah's Ark was fleeing from a flood, and Pi's father was escaping from the New India's "split to pieces and collapse" (Martel 79). In both pieces of literautre, animals were stored in a large boat to sail the seas for a better future. In one story, there was a happy ending. Pi's story, "has a happy ending" after 227 days of terrifying, memory searing endangerment (Martel 93).
Kate! I think your connection between that quote and the Old Testament because I never really thought of it that way. I completely agree with you that he is referencing the Old Testament and Noah's Ark because religion is such a huge art of Pi's life.
There are additional parallels in this biblical allusion between Pi and Noah. Noah was ridiculed for building the boat; Pi was ridiculed for his seemly impossible fable. Both Pi and Noah were obviously on a boat with animals; Noah for more than 40 days and Pi for 227 days. The final parallel is Pi and Noah were both saved by God.
"It was like Timbuktu, by definition a place permanently far away" (79).
In this quote, I think that Timbuktu stands for god and how he is always far away and never visible. The use of this allusion carefully identifies the overseeing of god, but not the presence or interference of god in his situation. In this case, Timbuktu is also like Canada because Pi thinks that Canada is far away too. This quote is the end of a chapter and I think that Yann Martel made the right choice putting this in because it gives you something to think about at the end of the chapter.
"The three wise men stared at each other, breathless and disbelieving"(84).This sentence is a biblical reference to the three wise men who traveled thousands of miles to visit Jesus. In this scene the three wise men are portrayed by the priest, the pandit, and the imam. In the bible the three wise men are led by the east star on their search for the newborn. The three wise men in Life of Pi are brought together because of Pi. In the bible, these wise men brought gifts to Jesus and believed that he was the son of God even though no one else did. However, these three wise men differ greatly than the men in the bible. The priest, the pandit, and the iman are unaccepting of Pi's religions. While these three wise men instead of believing and accepting Pi's belief they don't say a word. “The wise men seemed annoyed when they realized that all three of them were approaching the same people"(82). It is ironic that the three wise men in Life of Pi all represent three different religions. In the bible these men know that the son of God was born. They blindly followed the star without any sense of direction. All these men represent different religions and all come together because of Pi and show how religions are intertwined.
Great, Pamela! Also, in the bible story the three wise men present gifts. In this scene I believe the gifts they offered to Pi were their religion and as we see in this book, accepting more than one religion is frowned upon. Unlike the bible story, where the gifts were accepted.
"At length, as slowly as a caravan of camels crossing a desert, some thoughts came together" (134).
ReplyDeletePi's thoughts are coming very slowly, just like camels crossing a desert don't move very fast. Pi imagines himself as if he in a caravan, but in reality, he is alone with a few animals on a small life raft in the Pacific Ocean. The animals and Pi create their own caravan in the middle of the largest ocean. A caravan in a desert has nothing but sand and more desert around them. Pi and his animals are floating aimlessly through the Pacific Ocean with nothing around them but water and more ocean.
I absolutely agree with Bethany. I want to add that deserts seem never-ending when you are in the middle of one. Also oceans seem never-ending when you are in the middle of one. This means that Pi's thoughts are never-ending. His thoughts are never-ending because thoughts reflect your surroundings, and his surrounding is an irrational body of water that keeps going and going, so his thoughts were just like his surroundings. He kept getting thoughts that weren't connected, but he soon started connecting his thoughts just as Bethany said," just like camels crossing a desert".
Delete"A tiger aboard and I had waited three days and three nights to save my life!"(150).
ReplyDeleteMartel has incorporated a biblical allusion known to most every Christian in the world. Pi had waited three days and three nights to save his life. This is in a direct reference to the biblical story were Jesus died on the cross. Jesus was put in a tomb, and three days later when one of Jesus's prophets came to retrieve his body he was gone. Jesus had risen from the dead on that third day. This biblical allusion is relevant to Pi’s current life because just as Jesus “got out of death” Pi is trying to escape death. He is trying to escape being mauled by Richard Parker a 450 pound tiger, by building a raft and attaching it to the lifeboat. The lifeboat is like the cross and the raft is Pi escaping death just as Jesus did.
Delete"A tiger aboard and I had waited three days and three nights to save my life!"(150).
In "Life of Pi" Yann Martel uses the biblical allusion from Jesus dying, and coming back to life three days later. Some people might think that he used this in a sense that Jesus rose out of death, and Pi is trying to escape death in the form of a 450 pound tiger, but I think different. When Jesus died and rose again he had a new life, and Pi is the same. Pi leaving India, the Tsimtsum sinking, and his family dying is how Pi's old life died. If he was going to get out of this he would be living on the complete other side of the world, and have no family to support him. So this long voyage for Pi is like the three days for Jesus he's trying to rise from the dead.
Steggs, I really like this quote you chose. That is a very good example of an allusion and it represents what Pi was thinking very well about the tiger (Richard Parker). I love what you talked about after that Pi waiting for three days. I liked the way you had an idea about Pi's current life because it is very important that people know about him.
DeleteI’m not so sure if this is an illusion precisely from the bible; however, it is one to Christianity or Catholicism as a whole. “Her arms were spread wide open and her short legs were folded together and turned to one side. She looked like a simian Christ on the Cross” (Martel 132). I’m sure that an orangutan doesn’t look a whole lot like Jesus, but her position does. Just like the passage states, it is alluding to the famous telling and depiction of Jesus Christ on the cross after his persecution. Jesus chose to be put up on the cross so that his followers or friends did not have to be there. Depicting Orange Juice as Christ in a way shows the chimp’s intelligent and caring nature. I began to think that maybe Yann Martel was showing here how Orange Juice gave up her life to the hyena so that Pi didn’t have to. Maybe the orangutan was very smart, and still cared for Pi, like when they were friends and Orange Juice used to nurture him like he would her own child.
ReplyDeleteMckenna! I am so glad that you did this post! I agree completely with you and when I read this passage, I made the exact same connection as you did. How Orange Juice is dying to save Pi's life. This is very much the nature of Jesus. He died on the cross to save people from their sins. I think Yann Martel did this allusion on purpose, and used the Orange Juice to show how Orange Juice is strong but also loving or at least orangutans in general.
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ReplyDelete"Animals were sedated, cages were loaded and secured, feed was stored, bunks were assigned, lines were tossed, and whistles were blown"(Martel 91). This is specifically alluding to the story of Noah's Ark in the Old Testament. In both stories they were trying to flee from somewhere or something. Noah's Ark was fleeing from a flood, and Pi's father was escaping from the New India's "split to pieces and collapse" (Martel 79). In both pieces of literautre, animals were stored in a large boat to sail the seas for a better future. In one story, there was a happy ending. Pi's story, "has a happy ending" after 227 days of terrifying, memory searing endangerment (Martel 93).
ReplyDeleteKate! I think your connection between that quote and the Old Testament because I never really thought of it that way. I completely agree with you that he is referencing the Old Testament and Noah's Ark because religion is such a huge art of Pi's life.
DeleteThere are additional parallels in this biblical allusion between Pi and Noah. Noah was ridiculed for building the boat; Pi was ridiculed for his seemly impossible fable. Both Pi and Noah were obviously on a boat with animals; Noah for more than 40 days and Pi for 227 days. The final parallel is Pi and Noah were both saved by God.
Delete"It was like Timbuktu, by definition a place permanently far away" (79).
ReplyDeleteIn this quote, I think that Timbuktu stands for god and how he is always far away and never visible. The use of this allusion carefully identifies the overseeing of god, but not the presence or interference of god in his situation. In this case, Timbuktu is also like Canada because Pi thinks that Canada is far away too. This quote is the end of a chapter and I think that Yann Martel made the right choice putting this in because it gives you something to think about at the end of the chapter.
"The three wise men stared at each other, breathless and disbelieving"(84).This sentence is a biblical reference to the three wise men who traveled thousands of miles to visit Jesus. In this scene the three wise men are portrayed by the priest, the pandit, and the imam. In the bible the three wise men are led by the east star on their search for the newborn. The three wise men in Life of Pi are brought together because of Pi. In the bible, these wise men brought gifts to Jesus and believed that he was the son of God even though no one else did. However, these three wise men differ greatly than the men in the bible. The priest, the pandit, and the iman are unaccepting of Pi's religions. While these three wise men instead of believing and accepting Pi's belief they don't say a word. “The wise men seemed annoyed when they realized that all three of them were approaching the same people"(82). It is ironic that the three wise men in Life of Pi all represent three different religions. In the bible these men know that the son of God was born. They blindly followed the star without any sense of direction. All these men represent different religions and all come together because of Pi and show how religions are intertwined.
ReplyDeleteGreat, Pamela! Also, in the bible story the three wise men present gifts. In this scene I believe the gifts they offered to Pi were their religion and as we see in this book, accepting more than one religion is frowned upon. Unlike the bible story, where the gifts were accepted.
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