Richard Parker real or not?

  Martel made Pi seem like he was very deranged and uncivilized throughout his journey. Obviously his journey on the boat made him seem that way considering he has animals on his boat, middle of no where, etc. The tiger symbolizes the wild, which is what Pi was during the journey. The only thing that kept him together was the faith of religions he had. Richard was never a real tiger with him. Richard symbolizes Pi's deranged side without religion. Martels purpose and theme was to always have faith and beliefs in something no matter what it is. Without the morals and principles of religion, Pi would be like the tiger. Therefore, Richard Parker is Pi's side without relgion.

Was Life of Pi a Magical Realism?

    Life of Pi was overall a narrator speaking of a Indian boy named Pi in which Pi sees the three major religions of the world through his eyes : Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. Pi went through journeys such as his three family members dying and surviving a pretty long period of time on a boat with animals, and the main one he had to tame was a tiger. Obviously, you wouldn't really believe he had survived in those conditions, but with his common knowledge it makes it believable to the audience. But some people have a opinion whether it's magical realism or not.
    Life of Pi was not a magical realism. The purpose for Yann Martel was to express religion as much as express Pi's journey all in one. Pi views the main religion in his eyes and you can notice he nearly uses all three of the religions and principles in the book. For example, not eating meat but he did. Because he had no other choice. The whole setting was very realistic along with the vivid imagery but the main purpose for Martel was also to give people faith to believe in. Pi had faith throughout the journey to keep him up and alive. Without it he would have lost hope by now.
    I do agree that there are a few magical realism involved in the story. It is like a story within a story because he explains religions and he explains the religions within it with stories. One thing that may seem unrealistic to every audience besides the Hindus are when he explained that the hindu god had the whole universe in his mouth. This can impart back to the question how religion and storytelling have a correspondence because of how each one has a story within them and different variation. In the end, these are my thoughts on whether Life of Pi was a magical realism or not.

Reader Autobiography

     Reading has been known to be very flexible for everyone. From braille to audio listening, these are all forms of reading. Reading is known as a hobby or just a everyday thing for people. Reading helps with everything, such as gaining information or just plain entertainment for everyone. Anyone and everyone can do it, there is no obstacle to block you from doing so. 

    A reader is someone who actually takes time,passionate, and obviously love the act of learning by reading. I'm not saying to earn this title is read twenty four hours, seven days a week. You can simply be a reader just by knowing knowledge of everyday modern books and reading at least a few book. Enough to say reading is a hobby for you. Therefore, you can consider yourself a reader and have this title.To master reading, you don't just read. You have to actually have imagination and put yourself in the characters point of view, experience it, live the world of the words. Basically, be the book. 

    Personally, one of my favourites are Yann Martel. His notorious book, Life of Pi. Is a enjoyable book for everyone and perfect to see the main characters point of view. I like how this author actually put subliminal messages into this quintessential book of his. Overall, I have read many books over my lifetime but I cannot consider myself a reader to have that title. I say this because I do not consider it one of my hobbies, or daily thing.Nevertheless, I guess you can say I am a blocked reader. Reading takes skill such as learning it, I learned to read back when I was around 4 years old. Of course, by starting the basics such as pronouncing and learning the alphabet. 

    I would like to improve myself furthermore in reading by actually put it into my daily routine. Doing this will cause me to be genetically predisposed to a better reader and also being a epitomist at doing it. I like reading expository books, but not the type that has to do with medieval times. These exasperate me because those are the ones I have read most of my life. Furthermore, this experience was pretty painful because I had to remember what types of books I read and had too look at the past. Overall it was great.

Write Self Study

     People write to express their thoughts, self reflection, share to others, entertainment, and many various reasons. I write at times to express thoughts and to share information to others. Doing this makes me feel like I have said what I have to say and it is no longer trapped in my chest. Such as doing daily writing in class or making stories for a English projects. You cant just claim that you are a writer, you have to prove it by practicing it and following principles of it. 

     To be a good writer, you have to have a hook, theme, etc. Basically all the following principles to English literature. But everyones opinion on a good writer is very different based on other people point of view. Some people may not like the specific topic that a writer is writing about. But then again, the writer may aim it towards the type of audience that likes that topic such as the Gaza Massacre caused in Israel. My favorite writers are J.k Rowling because everyone has some a couple of the Harry Potter books. In my opinion, she is a exemplar writer. 

    I myself do writing whenever I feel the need to write out what needs to be said or when I have the feeling to state the truth. It is not my hobby, so I cannot consider myself a writer. As for a level of being a bad to good. I can consider myself as a decent writer. Although I try to be, all this came from Elementary school from when they first teach you thematic statements, hooks, etc. So I can say that this started from the basis of english.

    I am a Passionate writer when it comes to writing. I write very thoroughly when I need too. Something I would want to do better as a writer is do it more often and improve on structure. I like to do persuasive writing and expository writing. The ones I dislike is research papers because unlike the others you have to actually search for what to write about. This experience was pretty fun because I gave my full out thoughts on my opinion on writing. I gained self reflection and satisfaction because I could get this idea of my chest. This process was very swell.

     

Is it a snake that ate an elephant, or just a hat?

  In a snake, due to how it is seen. Audiences wouldnt be to entertained when trying to her a story about a hat unless their is a actually a good amount of interesting background about it. Such as a celebrity promoting the hat, etc. When you hear something about a snake someone automatically becomes interested since its a interesting or scary animal. Now to relate it to the snake swallowing the elephant, the audience finds it much more interesting because of the multiple questions or thoughts that would pop up into their brain. Such as, "how can it swallow a elephant whole?" or "Wow thats amazing!" etc. The hat is just a lifeless factuality because its just a everyday thing you can see. Images can be perceived or heard differently by adding more information. In this case, the information is the yeast to the bread.