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Name: Iumi, Jelkah, Tan Pian Section: Grade-11 STEM NEWTON Performance Task in Reading and Writing Skills

1) Life of Pi is a novel by Yann Martel that tells the story of Pi Patel, a boy from India who survives 227 days shipwrecked on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger. 2) Pi explores multiple religions as a youth and practices elements of Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. While adrift at sea, he must learn to survive alongside the dangerous tiger. 3) At the end of the story, Pi shares two accounts of his experience with investigators - one with just humans on the boat and the other with the animals. The investigators choose to believe the story with the animals.

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Name: Iumi, Jelkah, Tan Pian Section: Grade-11 STEM NEWTON Performance Task in Reading and Writing Skills

1) Life of Pi is a novel by Yann Martel that tells the story of Pi Patel, a boy from India who survives 227 days shipwrecked on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger. 2) Pi explores multiple religions as a youth and practices elements of Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. While adrift at sea, he must learn to survive alongside the dangerous tiger. 3) At the end of the story, Pi shares two accounts of his experience with investigators - one with just humans on the boat and the other with the animals. The investigators choose to believe the story with the animals.

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Name: Iumi, Jelkah, Tan Pian

Section: Grade-11 STEM NEWTON


PERFORMANCE TASK IN READING AND WRITING SKILLS

“LIFE OF PI”
Life of Pi is a Canadian philosophical novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist
is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian Tamil boy from Pondicherry who explores issues of
spirituality and metaphysics from an early age. The main character in this novel is Pi. Pi is
raised as a Hindu who practices vegetarianism. At the age of fourteen, he investigates
Christianity and Islam, and decides to become an adherent of all three religions, much to his
parents' dismay (and his religious mentors' frustration), saying he "just wants to love God". He
tries to understand God through the lens of each religion, and comes to recognize benefits in
each one. His mother, father, and brother Ravi all board the Tsimtsum along with the zoo’s
animal inhabitants (who are on their way to be sold around the world). The ship encounters a
storm. Pi manages to escape in a small lifeboat, only to learn that the boat also holds a spotted a
tiger, an hyena, an injured Grant's zebra, and an orangutan named Orange Juice. He begins
conditioning Richard Parker to take a submissive role by using food as a positive reinforces,
and seasickness as a punishment mechanism, while using a whistle for signals. Eventually,
however, life on the raft proves too exhausting, and Pi realizes that if Richard Parker gets
hungry enough, he will swim to it and kill Pi. So Pi decides that he must tame Richard Parker.
Using a whistle, seasickness, and a turtle-shell shield. Some time later, Pi's boat comes ashore
on a floating island network of algae inhabited by hundreds of thousands of meerkats. But the
boy's discovery of the carnivorous nature of the island's plant life forces him to return to the
ocean. Two hundred and twenty-seven days after the ship's sinking, the lifeboat washes onto a
beach in Mexico, after which Richard Parker disappears into the nearby jungle without looking
back, leaving Pi heartbroken at the abrupt farewell. At the end of the story Pi tells them his tale,
but the officials reject it as unbelievable. Pi then offers them a second story in which he is adrift
on a lifeboat not with zoo animals, but with the ship's cook, a Taiwanese sailor with a broken
leg, and his own mother. The cook amputates the sailor's leg for use as fishing bait, then kills
the sailor himself as well as Pi's mother for food, and soon he is killed by Pi, who dines on him.
The investigators note parallels between the two stories. They soon conclude that the hyena
symbolizes the cook, the zebra the sailor, the orangutan Pi's mother, and the tiger represents Pi.
Pi points out that neither story can be proven and neither explains the cause of the shipwreck, so
he asks the officials which story they prefer: the one without animals or the one with animals.
They eventually choose the story with the animals. Pi thanks them and says: "And so it goes
with God." The investigators then leave and file a report.
‘ life of pi ‘ is a beautiful story. I’d like the whole story, the plot, the settings, the character. It’s
the story with which we all can relate , even though none of have been is a lifeboat with a
Bengal tiger it’s just because the movie is much more than that. it’s a quest to find yourself , it’s
finding the ‘you’ in you . it’s about the life of a boy piscine Patel who is finding life , love,
spirituality, religion , family etc. In the middle of his life one day he loses all his family , and is
alone with a tiger on a boat , on a journey of lifetime where he finds the ultimate power of the
universe . “ Richard parker ( tiger) and me ( PI) were both raised in the same zoo by the same
master and now we are both orphaned to face our ultimate master together” the movie such
beautiful lines by the author . after all it’s a movie that neither makes you happy nor sad it
forces you to think about the existence of the world around you and teaches that life is after all
an act of letting go so the goodbyes must be great . Parents need to know that Life of Pi is an
intense, emotional story of survival and triumph against the odds, with themes of faith,
friendship, and perseverance. Although it's rated PG, and there's virtually no strong language,
sexual content, or blood, this adaptation of Yann Martel's bestselling novel. But the ending of
Life of Pi is very confusing to me. Are we to assume that the majority of the story Pi tells is
really an escapist fantasy to cover the far more mundane, not to mention horrible, events of the
actual journey? So Richard Parker is used to substitute for the cannibalism of the actual humans
on board?
In life of Pi, I learned so many things like we need to treat our animal friends better: Pi learns
this in a number of ways, but most profoundly by being stranded alone on a boat with
Richard Parker, the tiger. Although they don't have a very cuddly friendship, their reliance
on each other for survival illustrates one key point: mutual respect. More than 50 billion
animals around the world will be killed for food this year. Most of them will live in
horrific conditions. When we begin to treat our animal friends with more respect, I
guarantee we'll see bigger changes in other areas of our lives as well. Another lesson is that
religion is a mechanism, because Young Pi earnestly explores many different religions
while his father laughs at his gullible yet precocious interests. As the story unfolds though,
we learn the important lesson that religion is not the end, simply a means to our own
deeply personal understanding of the world and beyond. This awareness and acceptance
could help us avoid wars, bigotry, and intolerances around the world. I also learned There's
a difference between being alone and being lonely. Pi and Richard Parker find ways to
make the best of their experience. They are alone in the worst possible way stranded on the
ocean but they manage to keep from being lonely, through the power of story and the
magic that they witness all around them.

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