Adam IbrahimĀ 

Final essayĀ 

ENG 2400 filmĀ 

Dec 17/20Ā 

 

After reading ā€œLife of Piā€ by Yann Martel published in 2001 and the movie that came out in 2012 which was based around the book. Which empathy is included in both the book and being shown in the film. Empathy means the ability to understand and share feelings of another. like a person having oneself in another person’s shoes.Ā 

The ā€œLife of Piā€ is a book and a movie based on a boy from India traveling over sea and one day a storm happened. Which left him stranded in the middle of nowhere pi. With surviving meeting animals such as Ricard park the tiger. A scene when a hyena was eating the injured zebra with Pi crying and yelling at the hyena which could describe the empathy as us the reader and the audience seeing how pi might be feeling the pain the zebra is going through. Another scene where Pi feels bad for the animal is with orangutan feeling nauseous with Pi wanted to give it a medication. That scene shoes compassion since it shows that Pi feels terrible for the creatures.

Pi’s mother played a huge role in the movie how he mentions her with the cook killing his mother. In the movie when Pi talks about how ā€œmy mother fought against an adult manā€. Emphasizing that the hyena represents the cook and the orange juiceĀ  represents the mother wounded and was surprised by the attack. This represents redemption forgivenesses by orange juice saving Pi from the hyena.Ā 

Ā In the film the honor word is in a scene that involves Richard Park in the ending scene. How he walked away when they arrived at the island felt betrayed which the whole movie being on the boat together so he honored him.