Comparing Life Of Pi And Yann Martel's Lord Of The Flies

Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, is a bildungsroman exploring the coming of age of a young boy, named Piscine Molitor Patel. The novel is centered around the young boy’s difficult ordeal at sea with a Bengali tiger, named Richard Parker, in which the adolescent has to face a multitude of obstacles, in order to survive. The dystopian novel, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, focalizes on the on a group of British boys, who are stranded on an uninhabited island, whereas the preteens try to create a government. Throughout both survival texts, the authors highlight the vile thoughts surfacing within characters, to kill living beings, caused by their animalistic side, using literature devices, such as imagery as well as using a variety

In the bildungsroman novel, the author conveys the survivor’s dark thoughts and actions to kill, using this technique, as well as imagery, permitting the readers to understand the reason, as well as the thoughts, transpiring in Piscine’s head while he killed the cook “ I stabbed him repeatedly. His blood soothed my chapped hands. His heart was a struggle-all those tubes that connected it. I managed to get it out. It tasted delicious, far better than a turtle. I ate his liver. I cut off great pieces of his flesh.” (Martel 173). Furthermore, the narration enabled the readers to witness Piscine’s development, throughout the story. At the beginning of the book, the boy was known to be determined, imaginative and hopeful person, reliant on his faith for guidance. However as he began his journey at sea, he started exhibiting signs of animal-like behaviour, which the author emphasised using personal pronouns “It came as an unmistakable indication to me of how low I had sunk the day I noticed, with a pinching of the heart, that I ate like an animal, that this noisy, frantic, unchewing wolfing-down of mine was exactly the way Richard Parker ate.” (Martel 118) ( find another quote referring to