Life of Pi Essay

We watched a movie called “Life of Pi” in the ELT class with Ale Muslera and after that we wrote an essay with Andre Schejter in Language.

 It´s about a poor Hindu boy that despite his family owned a zoo, they had to move to Canada because of economic problems. Unfortunately, when they went sailing transporting all the animals of their zoo with them, there was a thunderstorm and in consequence the ship sank but Pi, with a tiger, an orang-utan, a zebra and a hyena survived in a safety boat. Finally, the tiger ate them all except Pi.

            The film got involved in the survival genre because Pi was stranded deep inside the Pacific Ocean with a tiger. At first, Pi couldn´t control the tiger, nevertheless, he builder a tiny boat so as to stay close to the main boat and far away from the tiger. However, despite the tiger´s lack of understanding and motion sickness, Pi manages to control him thus he had a part of the main boat for himself. Although he managed to control him, they had a bigger problem to face, they didn´t have more supplies.

               Despite his disadvantages, he as an intelligent boy that knows different ways of surviving and domesticating animals, such as putting buckets in order to catch the rain, he also started fishing despite his religions where against the killing of animals. Doing this he managed to survive and reach the Mexican coasts. When he arrived, the tiger, ran away into the forest.

               In conclusion, this movie shows a lot of surviving techniques that make sense. I agree with some people in the fact that there are some things that aren’t possible, but after all this is a fictional movie. It gets involved in the surviving genre in different ways than other movies do, making it special. It´s a great movie that is worth watching it.