Authors Note: This piece is about the cause and effect relationship in The Life of Pi. I wrote this to demonstrate my understanding of cause and effect.
The Life of Pi was all about a boy traveling from India to a new life in Canada. When tragedy strikes, Pi finds himself stuck in a life boat with a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, and a tiger. When the life boat finally hits civilization, Pi is hanging on to life by a thread. This book is all about Pi's adventures, out at sea.
The climax of this book would probably be when the ship sank which created the point of with no return. This reminded me of the Titanic, when people woke up and the crew told them the ship was sinking. The reason Pi was on the boat in the first place was because of a political change in India, that made Pi's family decide to move to Canada. When Ravi reports to his family that there was something wrong with the engines, they think nothing of it, yet it could have saved their lives.
The Effect of the Boat sinking was Pi trying to survive in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. Pi has to fish for food and use different devices that slowly turn seawater into drinking water, and yet he has to give most of it to Richard Parker (the tiger) if he doesn't want to be eaten alive. Along the way Pi meets a blind man, and comes across an island with a man eating tree
In the end Pi reaches the coast of Mexico after 227 days of being stranded alone with a Bengal tiger. Pi tells his amazing story, to scientist who are trying to figure out how the ship sank, and they don't believe him. I can just imagine how that would feel. Barely hanging on to life, and nobody believes you about your past. Our castaway made it to Mexico alive, without his family behind him.
I loved how you added so much detail Brooke and if someone would have never read Life of Pi they would really understand the book. Your piece is very clear and understanding. I can clearly tell that you used your resources like the rubric, student samples, etc.
ReplyDeleteLike Megan said I like how much detail you added and it shows that you used the resources. I liked that you added some background information to so people who haven't read the book would know what's going on.
ReplyDeleteI like this piece and i like how you compare the boat sinking to the Titanic. The only thing I would change is say would these different events affected Pi.
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