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Friday, December 20, 2019
Similes—due December 20
Find and type four similes, which are comparisons using "like" or "as," in the novel. Write 250+ words about the value of these similes. Example (that you cannot use): "I felt like a prisoner being pushed off a plank by pirates" (154).
"Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an endgame in chess, a game with few pieces." This simile has value because it's about the life boat and he describes it very well. Like he is saying its not really a life its just an end game of survival vs life. Also what he means by that it only has a few pieces life like at the beginning you have a lot but after the boat sank he doesn't have all the animals or his mom, dad, brother. He lost pretty much everything. "My tongue began to tremble as if it were a finger flipping through a dictionary, trying to find a long-forgotten word." This is pretty much saying he has lost his speech and forgotten lots of words. He has not talked to anyone for awhile so he is starting to lose memory of words he once knew. So that simile was perfect for what's going on. "I was now as guilty as Cain."-Pi. When Pi kills a fish, he compares himself to how Cain killed his brother, Able. One reason he belives he is a murder now is because he loves animals. He is also a vegetarian and doesn’t eat meat. Also he raised on a zoo so he belives the animals are like family so killing them makes him a murderer. He believed that the ship was impossible to sink so when he saw how close the water was to the top. He couldn't believe it and was sinking was just not faithumable to him.
Bruce Find and type four similes, which are comparisons using “like'' or as” in the novel. Write 250+ words about the value of these similes “When the crewman threw pi into the lifeboat, pi says I landed with a trampoline-like bounce on the half-unrolled tarpaulin covering a lifeboat forty feet below. “ Pi describes each of his claws was a sharp as a knife”. “Tell me I’m still in my bunk on the Tsimtsum and I’m tossing and turning and soon I’ll wake up from this nightmare.” “pi father to a tree trunk and his mother to the sun. The values of these similes are that they compare one thing to another with like or as which means that when you say it is comparing it to real life. So how these similes bring to the book is that when I wrote how the claws are as sharp as a knife it makes the book want you to read it more and wants you to dig into it more so you are interested in it. These smiles help the book keep on telling the story and try to help you understand what they are trying to relate to the book. Another simile that I put is when he threw him into the water and he said that he landed on a trampoline they are making it like he landed on something fun and wanted to bounce right back to what he was doing so that is why they have value in the book because of the similes. The last similes I put-puts value in the book because it describes how he was feeling the night of when he was on the boat with the tiger.
"Like an electrically lit orange " This one is referring to the sun showing off the way it would look and how he would see it out on the ocean comparing everything he sees to food out on his journey to keep his mind sharp too.
"Moving a zoo is like moving a city." The preparations for moving a zoo takes around a year and is quite expensive it's like taking everyone out of new york it'd be nearly impossible to satisfy everyone to make sure they move out and would be hard to do.
"The oceanic whitetips were often shorter than the makos-some of which stretched to twelve feet-but they were much stockier and had enormous dorsal fins that they sailed high above the surface of the water, like a war banner, a rapidly moving sight that was always nerve-racking to behold." It involves the fish showing off how he sees them and how nerve-racking it must be for Pi as he's floating in the ocean and seeing all of this it would be terrifying to me that's for sure.
"I landed with a trampoline-like bounce on the half-unrolled tarpaulin fort feet below." I think this one is important as it shows his journey now out on the long journey for him as it would seem that he would then slowly see the horrors that would overcome him with fear and would pus them to there limits I truly believe its value for this one is the fact it shows the start of his journey the central moment .
“pi father to a tree trunk and his mother to the sun. The values of these similes are that they compare one thing to another with like or as which means that when you say it is comparing it to real life. So how these similes bring to the book is that when I wrote how the claws are as sharp as a knife it makes the book want you to read it more and wants you to dig into it more so you are interested in it. These smiles help the book keep on telling the story and try to help you understand what they are trying to relate to the book. Another simile that I put is when he threw him into the water and he said that he landed on a trampoline they are making it like he landed on something fun and wanted to bounce right back to what he was doing so that is why they have value in the book because of the similes."My tongue began to tremble as if it were a finger flipping through a dictionary, trying to find a long-forgotten word." This is pretty much saying he has lost his speech and forgotten lots of words. He has not talked to anyone for awhile so he is starting to lose memory of words he once knew. So that simile was perfect for what's going on. "I was now as guilty as Cain."-Pi. When Pi kills a fish, he compares himself to how Cain killed his brother, Able. One reason he belives he is a murder now is because he loves animals. He is also a vegetarian and doesn’t eat meat. Also he raised on a zoo so he belives the animals are like family so killing them makes him a murderer. Anderson
I set out to find some similes and metaphors for this assignment and, boy did I, I found very many of them and found it to be crazy of how many this author actually used in this book to compare and add to the story. For my first one. “He dropped like a stone” This was when Pi killed the french man who jumped onto his boat and tried to choke him. Luckily Pi had his hatchet and was able to save himself. For the second one. "The flat and endless Pacific rose like a great wall around us. I never thought we would get around it.” He says that the water rose like a great wall because he was in a storm and the waves were so enormous that he could not see anywhere else other than the water around him about to cave in. It was to the point for Pi at this time where he didn't know what else to do other than die peacefully. Third one. "The ship sank. It made a sound like a monstrous metallic burp” This was when Pi was telling the Japanese people about the shipwreck and what he saw. When he said the ship made a metallic burp, that was because when a ship goes fully underwater, the water pressure makes the ship collapse and pushes all the extra air from the ship out and that's why you could hear it so clearly. Fourth one. “After which I got up and tossed the hoop so that it rolled like a wheel.” When he throws the hoop, he threw it on its side so it would roll further, “like a wheel”.
Riley Schroeder I felt like i was beating a rainbow to death. It was when he first cot a fish and had to kill it. My life boat looked like a game of tic tac toe. It was all lines and had some things to separate the sides. It was like heaven when i reached the island. A paradise that could not be described in words alone it would leave any person or beast speach less and all you will hear it in is tall tail and see it in imagination. But it is out there and it feeds. The man was like a weasel that could not stop. All he did was want more then he should have. The man had no faith and that is why i did not live as long as me and the tiger got him. The pain from the fish hitting me was like a punch to the stomach. Ever time became wors there fins started to cut the skin and i couldn’t see what was come up next but i heard something i big thud and felt the boat rock back and forth. I looked down and saw a giant fish as big as the ones back at my home. When my eyes cleared i saw the man that was going to kill me his bones looked like the out line of the boat his skin riped of and all over the boat. Also blood stanes ever where i couldn't help but look at it all.
Hamner Find and Type four Similes, which are comparisons using “like” or “as,” in the novel. Write two hundred and fifty or more words about the value of these similes.
One of the similies I found in the book was in the authors note and it said “books line the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team”. It shows that he is saying that all the other books were wanted and used and that they were the better ones and that everyone else wanted and chose them before his book and he is saying that his book is unwanted because it is different and that everyone thought that his was trash and stupid so the books never got sold so the whole thing failed. And by saying his was the unathletic kid and that nobody wanted his book or to read the book it vanished and disappeared like it was never a thing and only a very select few people liked his book. Another simile I had found was on page 6 and it said “they were like nails being driven into my flesh.” That simile means that what the guy said really hurt him and tore him down and the guy didn’t know what he said really hurt Pi and how it really affected his self esteem. The third simile that I found was on page 12 and it said “The sound would disappear, but the hurt would linger, like the smell of piss long after it has evaporated.” This simile means that his name was bad and that when he got teased it really hurt him and even if he ignored it and tried to pretend it wasn't real but as much as he tried to pretend it wasn't real but the pain will still linger and hurt a lot.
Ariah Helseth 1. I was cold. It was a distracted observation as if it didn’t concern me. 2. It was as I was breathing deeply and concentrating on making my nausea go away that I saw Orange Juice. 3. And she had her back turned to the hyena, as if she felt she could safely ignore it. 4. The largest one came at the boat quickly, as if to attack, its dorsal fin rising out of the water by several inches, but it dipped below just before reaching us and glided underfoot with fearsome grace.
The values of these similes is they sometimes mean something important and they can tell you something that might be important to know and to remember. These similes can be important because they could be telling you a message, an important message that you may need to know at some point. They are important because they may express what someone is thing and it may also express feelings. The similes can help us connect with what it is trying to say and it helps us think about what the feelings are and what they mean. These similes can also help compare things to other things and they can help us better understand what they mean and it can help us better understand the story and why they are using these similes. These similes can help us think about what it may look like and we can imagine it in ours heads to help us understand it better too. Similes can help us better understand what is going on in the story and it can also help us better understand what the feelings and expressions are in the story. It can help us have a better connection with the story and characters in the story. The values of similes are important because they can help explain the story better and it can make us connect with the story better.
1)” That pain is like an axe that chops at my heart.” He wanted to connect the feelings from the book to the readers and then will feel like they were the ones that were in the lifeboat. This can give us a visualization of what is happening in the scene as a reader we can’t see and make that connection when we are reading, but with this, we can imagine in our head as we were there and it makes it understand what is happening at this moment. 2) “ The sound disappeared, but the hurt will linger like the smell of piss even after it evaporates.” The hurt is going to be strong even as time goes on with author telling this and how he compared a smell with hurt is trying to communicate in some way that we can understand PI’s situation that he is in, He used the piss as a referent because in our lives we have smell that at least once and that is something that we have experienced ourselves. 3)” Don't we say, "There's no place like home"? We know in our lives that nothing feels like home and how the home is the place that we feel comfortable in. The author tells us and uses the home as an example because there is no other place like home. Home is your comfort zone and shelter. 4) “We set out like prisoners off to their execution.” He is comparing the prisoners as an example because we know that prisoners are going to die, but we don’t know when and we can imagine how hurtful in your mind can be and how scary it can be knowing that you are going to die.
2. The sound would disappear, but the hurt would linger, like the smell of piss long after it has evaporated.
3.We set out like prisoners off to their execution.
4.Don't we say, "There's no place like home".
The pain is like an axe that chops at my heart. The author helps us Connect our feelings in the text so we can feel how pie is feeling during his journey. 2.The sound would disappear, but the hurt would linger, like the smell of piss long after it has evaporated Pie say simile like this because he is trying to put his story in to real world will real people problem with people We set out like prisoners off to their execution.” pie say this because there are prisoners who are going into jail knowing they would not get out of the situation so that is there death place. For pie part he is trapped in the ocean with a tiger saying he is going to die and he knows it In the story the author say there no place like home. So I think the arthier is trying to say is that pie is at a places were he is not home or comfortable place he out in the open in the ocean were he is not safe and happy at he not at his happy places.
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. Pi is seeing a memento mori of a grinning skull. The skull represents death mocking him. Death Pi has a strange relationship throughout the novel and is constantly pulling back and forth from each other. Nevertheless, at the very end, Death is derisive, but Pi does not cower. It is as though this time Pi is mocking death now.
"There's no place like home."
I think this would explain how he is in the ocean by himself and he is feeling lost in the ocean but he didn't just say he is feeling alone in the ocean because there is no one with him like how he had people when he was with his family.
"The pain is like an axe that chops at my heart." You can connect it, feel it and visualize the pain that he has through the writing. The simile gives us a comparison to our life. I have never had an axe chop me in the heart, but I can relate to his writing. When you get heartbroken and it kind of it feels pretty much like being heartbroken. If the author didn't use similes we wouldn't know how painful it actually was or how he actually felt at that moment.
"The sound will disappear, but the hurt will linger. like the smell of piss even after the same thing it has evaporated." The pain does not go away, it stays with him every moment. It is like you remember the smell and the hurt, it doesn't go away. For me this is like someone broke your hurt with trust or in other ways then you will never be the same with that person as the first one even if you forgive them.
Warmth came only when the sun, looking like an electrically lit orange
so the animal blends in with the surrounding moss and foliage and like a nest of white ants or of squirrels
of which no small number of illustrious Canadians have been recipients, were it not for a beef-eating pink boy with a neck like a tree trunk
I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. That pain is like an axe that chops at my heart.
The value of these similes is painful and vibrant the reason why these are painful is that one of these similes shows the emotional feeling of how Pi felt in that moment of time and when he thinks of it he feels that pain again. The reason why these similes are vibrant is because they talk about the sun and how colorful the orange is in the sun, the other reason why these similes are vibrant is because of the moss and foliage that he talks about and they look like white ant’s or squirrels. The value of these similes are painful because of how he felt towards other people and what he thought of them in his head and in these similes, it also shows that he thinks that they don’t deserve what they got and how Pi thinks that he should have gotten it that is why he is thinking like that in his head about what he could say about them.
I think that a lot of things are happening in chapter 90. The reason why I say that is because the way it sounds like a lot of things are very crazy and it kinda confuses me the reader a lot. One of the quotes in this chapter that I am very curious about is when you first start reading the chapter and it says “ richard Parker, is something wrong? Have you gone blind?” the reason why I say that is because it tries to make the reader concerned about what is happening. Kinda makes them seem worried. They start back tracing things that probably shows that he's blind.“pi father to a tree trunk and his mother to the sun. The values of these similes are that they compare one thing to another with like or as which means that when you say it is comparing it to real life. So how these similes bring to the book is that when I wrote how the claws are as sharp as a knife it makes the book want you to read it more and wants you to dig into it more so you are interested in it. These smiles help the book keep on telling the story and try to help you understand what they are trying to relate to the book. They are important because they may express what someone is thing and it may also express feelings. The similes can help us connect with what it is trying to say and it helps us think about what the feelings are and what they mean. These similes can also help compare things to other things and they can help us better understand what they mean and it can help us better understand the story and why they are using these similes. These similes can help us think about what it may look like and we can imagine it in ours heads to help us understand it better too. Similes can help us better understand what is going on in the story and it can also help us better understand what the feelings and expressions are in the story. It can help us have a better connection with the story and characters in the story.
I found this one quote very interesting and a good one to share. "My tongue began to tremble as if it were a finger flipping through a dictionary, trying to find a long-forgotten word." This is pretty much saying he has lost his speech and forgotten lots of words. He has not talked to anyone for a while so he is starting to lose the memory of words he once knew. So that simile was perfect for what's going on. "I was now as guilty as Cain."-Pi. When Pi kills a fish, he compares himself to how Cain killed his brother Able. One reason he believes he is murder now is that he loves animals.“The sound disappeared, but the hurt will linger like the smell of piss even after it evaporates.”The hurt is going to be strong even as time goes on with author telling this and how he compared a smell with hurt is trying to communicate in some way that we can understand PI’s situation that he is in, He used the piss as a referent because in our lives we have smell that at least once and that is something that we have experienced ourselves."There's no place like home."I think this would explain how he is in the ocean by himself and he is feeling lost in the ocean but he didn't just say he is feeling alone in the ocean because there is no one with him like how he had people when he was with his family.
Meinert Pg.53/ The pink skin was peeled back and looked like the petals of a flower Pg.201/ I turned to the survival manual as to a cookbook Pg.119/ warmth came only when the sun, looking like an electrically lit orange Pg.119/ The calm sea opened up around me like a great book
The Life of Pi is loaded with examples of similes. The purpose of similes is to help the reader become more involved in the reading and to compare on think with another thing of a different kind. It helps to create a picture of something that I already know in my head to what the author is trying to describe. My favorite simile that I found was “Warmth came only when the sun, looking like an electrically lit orange”. When I read this, I can imagine looking into the horizon and seeing just a big and beautiful orange come up. I have seen something like this before. I know by reading this what the author was trying to describe. I think that similes add to the stories. It helps to become one with what I am reading. It is like I am in the story with the characters.
I also liked the simile “I turned to the survival manual as to a cookbook”. I cook a lot with my mom. She follows step by step directions to make delicious desserts and meals for our family. She uses it as a tool. This is what the author was trying to explain by this simile. He needed to follow the survival manual to know what to do so he could survive the elements.
The last simile that I am going to write about is “the pink skin was peeled back and looked like the petals of a flower”. I knew immediately what the author was trying to describe. It reminded me of when I went to Florida and didn’t use enough sunscreen. My skin was pink and it peeled many different layers. It looked like a rose. It was not a fun experience for me as it was painful, but this example helped me to remember and know what he was going through in the book.
The voice that answered had an Indian lilt to its Canadian accent, light but unmistakable, like a trace of incense in the air.
Why it should look about is uncertain since the sloth sees everything in a Magoo-like blur.
The voice that answered had an Indian lilt to its Canadian accent, light but unmistakable, like a trace of incense in the air.
A sloth's hairs shelter an algae that is brown during the dry season and green during the wet season, so the animal blends in with the surrounding moss and foliage and looks like a nest of white ants or of squirrels, or like nothing at all but part of a tree.
I think that adding similes are good because it can describe a situation better for better understanding. Some things that happen in life that only you saw it is hard to describe but similes help describe the story in a way that other people can understand. Like my second quote, it says it was a Magoo like blur, that helps describe the picture better.
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"Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an endgame in chess, a game with few pieces." This simile has value because it's about the life boat and he describes it very well. Like he is saying its not really a life its just an end game of survival vs life. Also what he means by that it only has a few pieces life like at the beginning you have a lot but after the boat sank he doesn't have all the animals or his mom, dad, brother. He lost pretty much everything. "My tongue began to tremble as if it were a finger flipping through a dictionary, trying to find a long-forgotten word." This is pretty much saying he has lost his speech and forgotten lots of words. He has not talked to anyone for awhile so he is starting to lose memory of words he once knew. So that simile was perfect for what's going on. "I was now as guilty as Cain."-Pi. When Pi kills a fish, he compares himself to how Cain killed his brother, Able. One reason he belives he is a murder now is because he loves animals. He is also a vegetarian and doesn’t eat meat. Also he raised on a zoo so he belives the animals are like family so killing them makes him a murderer. He believed that the ship was impossible to sink so when he saw how close the water was to the top. He couldn't believe it and was sinking was just not faithumable to him.
Bruce
Find and type four similes, which are comparisons using “like'' or as” in the novel. Write 250+ words about the value of these similes
“When the crewman threw pi into the lifeboat, pi says I landed with a trampoline-like bounce on the half-unrolled tarpaulin covering a lifeboat forty feet below. “ Pi describes each of his claws was a sharp as a knife”. “Tell me I’m still in my bunk on the Tsimtsum and I’m tossing and turning and soon I’ll wake up from this nightmare.” “pi father to a tree trunk and his mother to the sun. The values of these similes are that they compare one thing to another with like or as which means that when you say it is comparing it to real life. So how these similes bring to the book is that when I wrote how the claws are as sharp as a knife it makes the book want you to read it more and wants you to dig into it more so you are interested in it. These smiles help the book keep on telling the story and try to help you understand what they are trying to relate to the book. Another simile that I put is when he threw him into the water and he said that he landed on a trampoline they are making it like he landed on something fun and wanted to bounce right back to what he was doing so that is why they have value in the book because of the similes. The last similes I put-puts value in the book because it describes how he was feeling the night of when he was on the boat with the tiger.
"Like an electrically lit orange " This one is referring to the sun showing off the way it would look and how he would see it out on the ocean comparing everything he sees to food out on his journey to keep his mind sharp too.
"Moving a zoo is like moving a city." The preparations for moving a zoo takes around a year and is quite expensive it's like taking everyone out of new york it'd be nearly impossible to satisfy everyone to make sure they move out and would be hard to do.
"The oceanic whitetips were often shorter than the makos-some of which stretched to twelve feet-but they were much stockier and had enormous dorsal fins that they sailed high above the surface of the water, like a war banner, a rapidly moving sight that was always nerve-racking to behold." It involves the fish showing off how he sees them and how nerve-racking it must be for Pi as he's floating in the ocean and seeing all of this it would be terrifying to me that's for sure.
"I landed with a trampoline-like bounce on the half-unrolled tarpaulin fort feet below." I think this one is important as it shows his journey now out on the long journey for him as it would seem that he would then slowly see the horrors that would overcome him with fear and would pus them to there limits I truly believe its value for this one is the fact it shows the start of his journey the central moment .
“pi father to a tree trunk and his mother to the sun. The values of these similes are that they compare one thing to another with like or as which means that when you say it is comparing it to real life. So how these similes bring to the book is that when I wrote how the claws are as sharp as a knife it makes the book want you to read it more and wants you to dig into it more so you are interested in it. These smiles help the book keep on telling the story and try to help you understand what they are trying to relate to the book. Another simile that I put is when he threw him into the water and he said that he landed on a trampoline they are making it like he landed on something fun and wanted to bounce right back to what he was doing so that is why they have value in the book because of the similes."My tongue began to tremble as if it were a finger flipping through a dictionary, trying to find a long-forgotten word." This is pretty much saying he has lost his speech and forgotten lots of words. He has not talked to anyone for awhile so he is starting to lose memory of words he once knew. So that simile was perfect for what's going on. "I was now as guilty as Cain."-Pi. When Pi kills a fish, he compares himself to how Cain killed his brother, Able. One reason he belives he is a murder now is because he loves animals. He is also a vegetarian and doesn’t eat meat. Also he raised on a zoo so he belives the animals are like family so killing them makes him a murderer.
Anderson
I set out to find some similes and metaphors for this assignment and, boy did I, I found very many of them and found it to be crazy of how many this author actually used in this book to compare and add to the story. For my first one.
“He dropped like a stone”
This was when Pi killed the french man who jumped onto his boat and tried to choke him. Luckily Pi had his hatchet and was able to save himself.
For the second one.
"The flat and endless Pacific rose like a great wall around us. I never thought we would get around it.”
He says that the water rose like a great wall because he was in a storm and the waves were so enormous that he could not see anywhere else other than the water around him about to cave in. It was to the point for Pi at this time where he didn't know what else to do other than die peacefully.
Third one.
"The ship sank. It made a sound like a monstrous metallic burp”
This was when Pi was telling the Japanese people about the shipwreck and what he saw. When he said the ship made a metallic burp, that was because when a ship goes fully underwater, the water pressure makes the ship collapse and pushes all the extra air from the ship out and that's why you could hear it so clearly.
Fourth one.
“After which I got up and tossed the hoop so that it rolled like a wheel.”
When he throws the hoop, he threw it on its side so it would roll further, “like a wheel”.
- Haas
Riley Schroeder
I felt like i was beating a rainbow to death. It was when he first cot a fish and had to kill it. My life boat looked like a game of tic tac toe. It was all lines and had some things to separate the sides. It was like heaven when i reached the island. A paradise that could not be described in words alone it would leave any person or beast speach less and all you will hear it in is tall tail and see it in imagination. But it is out there and it feeds. The man was like a weasel that could not stop. All he did was want more then he should have. The man had no faith and that is why i did not live as long as me and the tiger got him. The pain from the fish hitting me was like a punch to the stomach. Ever time became wors there fins started to cut the skin and i couldn’t see what was come up next but i heard something i big thud and felt the boat rock back and forth. I looked down and saw a giant fish as big as the ones back at my home. When my eyes cleared i saw the man that was going to kill me his bones looked like the out line of the boat his skin riped of and all over the boat. Also blood stanes ever where i couldn't help but look at it all.
Hamner
Find and Type four Similes, which are comparisons using “like” or “as,” in the novel. Write two hundred and fifty or more words about the value of these similes.
One of the similies I found in the book was in the authors note and it said “books line the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team”. It shows that he is saying that all the other books were wanted and used and that they were the better ones and that everyone else wanted and chose them before his book and he is saying that his book is unwanted because it is different and that everyone thought that his was trash and stupid so the books never got sold so the whole thing failed. And by saying his was the unathletic kid and that nobody wanted his book or to read the book it vanished and disappeared like it was never a thing and only a very select few people liked his book. Another simile I had found was on page 6 and it said “they were like nails being driven into my flesh.” That simile means that what the guy said really hurt him and tore him down and the guy didn’t know what he said really hurt Pi and how it really affected his self esteem. The third simile that I found was on page 12 and it said “The sound would disappear, but the hurt would linger, like the smell of piss long after it has evaporated.” This simile means that his name was bad and that when he got teased it really hurt him and even if he ignored it and tried to pretend it wasn't real but as much as he tried to pretend it wasn't real but the pain will still linger and hurt a lot.
Ariah Helseth
1. I was cold. It was a distracted observation as if it didn’t concern me.
2. It was as I was breathing deeply and concentrating on making my nausea go away that I saw Orange Juice.
3. And she had her back turned to the hyena, as if she felt she could safely ignore it.
4. The largest one came at the boat quickly, as if to attack, its dorsal fin rising out of the water by several inches, but it dipped below just before reaching us and glided underfoot with fearsome grace.
The values of these similes is they sometimes mean something important and they can tell you something that might be important to know and to remember. These similes can be important because they could be telling you a message, an important message that you may need to know at some point. They are important because they may express what someone is thing and it may also express feelings. The similes can help us connect with what it is trying to say and it helps us think about what the feelings are and what they mean. These similes can also help compare things to other things and they can help us better understand what they mean and it can help us better understand the story and why they are using these similes. These similes can help us think about what it may look like and we can imagine it in ours heads to help us understand it better too. Similes can help us better understand what is going on in the story and it can also help us better understand what the feelings and expressions are in the story. It can help us have a better connection with the story and characters in the story. The values of similes are important because they can help explain the story better and it can make us connect with the story better.
1)” That pain is like an axe that chops at my heart.” He wanted to connect the feelings from the book to the readers and then will feel like they were the ones that were in the lifeboat. This can give us a visualization of what is happening in the scene as a reader we can’t see and make that connection when we are reading, but with this, we can imagine in our head as we were there and it makes it understand what is happening at this moment.
2) “ The sound disappeared, but the hurt will linger like the smell of piss even after it evaporates.”
The hurt is going to be strong even as time goes on with author telling this and how he compared a smell with hurt is trying to communicate in some way that we can understand PI’s situation that he is in, He used the piss as a referent because in our lives we have smell that at least once and that is something that we have experienced ourselves.
3)” Don't we say, "There's no place like home"?
We know in our lives that nothing feels like home and how the home is the place that we feel comfortable in. The author tells us and uses the home as an example because there is no other place like home. Home is your comfort zone and shelter.
4) “We set out like prisoners off to their execution.”
He is comparing the prisoners as an example because we know that prisoners are going to die, but we don’t know when and we can imagine how hurtful in your mind can be and how scary it can be knowing that you are going to die.
1.The pain is like an axe that chops at my heart.
2. The sound would disappear, but the hurt would linger, like the smell of piss long after it has evaporated.
3.We set out like prisoners off to their execution.
4.Don't we say, "There's no place like home".
The pain is like an axe that chops at my heart. The author helps us Connect our feelings in the text so we can feel how pie is feeling during his journey.
2.The sound would disappear, but the hurt would linger, like the smell of piss long after it has evaporated Pie say simile like this because he is trying to put his story in to real world will real people problem with people
We set out like prisoners off to their execution.” pie say this because there are prisoners who are going into jail knowing they would not get out of the situation so that is there death place. For pie part he is trapped in the ocean with a tiger saying he is going to die and he knows it
In the story the author say there no place like home. So I think the arthier is trying to say is that pie is at a places were he is not home or comfortable place he out in the open in the ocean were he is not safe and happy at he not at his happy places.
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. Pi is seeing a memento mori of a grinning skull. The skull represents death mocking him. Death Pi has a strange relationship throughout the novel and is constantly pulling back and forth from each other. Nevertheless, at the very end, Death is derisive, but Pi does not cower. It is as though this time Pi is mocking death now.
"There's no place like home."
I think this would explain how he is in the ocean by himself and he is feeling lost in the ocean but he didn't just say he is feeling alone in the ocean because there is no one with him like how he had people when he was with his family.
"The pain is like an axe that chops at my heart."
You can connect it, feel it and visualize the pain that he has through the writing. The simile gives us a comparison to our life. I have never had an axe chop me in the heart, but I can relate to his writing. When you get heartbroken and it kind of it feels pretty much like being heartbroken. If the author didn't use similes we wouldn't know how painful it actually was or how he actually felt at that moment.
"The sound will disappear, but the hurt will linger. like the smell of piss even after the same thing it has evaporated." The pain does not go away, it stays with him every moment. It is like you remember the smell and the hurt, it doesn't go away. For me this is like someone broke your hurt with trust or in other ways then you will never be the same with that person as the first one even if you forgive them.
Warmth came only when the sun, looking like an electrically lit orange
so the animal blends in with the surrounding moss and foliage and like a nest of white ants or of squirrels
of which no small number of illustrious Canadians have
been recipients, were it not for a beef-eating pink boy with a neck like a tree trunk
I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of
goodbye, without looking back even once. That pain is like an axe that chops at my heart.
The value of these similes is painful and vibrant the reason why these are painful is that one of these similes shows the emotional feeling of how Pi felt in that moment of time and when he thinks of it he feels that pain again. The reason why these similes are vibrant is because they talk about the sun and how colorful the orange is in the sun, the other reason why these similes are vibrant is because of the moss and foliage that he talks about and they look like white ant’s or squirrels. The value of these similes are painful because of how he felt towards other people and what he thought of them in his head and in these similes, it also shows that he thinks that they don’t deserve what they got and how Pi thinks that he should have gotten it that is why he is thinking like that in his head about what he could say about them.
I think that a lot of things are happening in chapter 90. The reason why I say that is because the way it sounds like a lot of things are very crazy and it kinda confuses me the reader a lot. One of the quotes in this chapter that I am very curious about is when you first start reading the chapter and it says “ richard Parker, is something wrong? Have you gone blind?” the reason why I say that is because it tries to make the reader concerned about what is happening. Kinda makes them seem worried. They start back tracing things that probably shows that he's blind.“pi father to a tree trunk and his mother to the sun. The values of these similes are that they compare one thing to another with like or as which means that when you say it is comparing it to real life. So how these similes bring to the book is that when I wrote how the claws are as sharp as a knife it makes the book want you to read it more and wants you to dig into it more so you are interested in it. These smiles help the book keep on telling the story and try to help you understand what they are trying to relate to the book. They are important because they may express what someone is thing and it may also express feelings. The similes can help us connect with what it is trying to say and it helps us think about what the feelings are and what they mean. These similes can also help compare things to other things and they can help us better understand what they mean and it can help us better understand the story and why they are using these similes. These similes can help us think about what it may look like and we can imagine it in ours heads to help us understand it better too. Similes can help us better understand what is going on in the story and it can also help us better understand what the feelings and expressions are in the story. It can help us have a better connection with the story and characters in the story.
I found this one quote very interesting and a good one to share. "My tongue began to tremble as if it were a finger flipping through a dictionary, trying to find a long-forgotten word." This is pretty much saying he has lost his speech and forgotten lots of words. He has not talked to anyone for a while so he is starting to lose the memory of words he once knew. So that simile was perfect for what's going on. "I was now as guilty as Cain."-Pi. When Pi kills a fish, he compares himself to how Cain killed his brother Able. One reason he believes he is murder now is that he loves animals.“The sound disappeared, but the hurt will linger like the smell of piss even after it evaporates.”The hurt is going to be strong even as time goes on with author telling this and how he compared a smell with hurt is trying to communicate in some way that we can understand PI’s situation that he is in, He used the piss as a referent because in our lives we have smell that at least once and that is something that we have experienced ourselves."There's no place like home."I think this would explain how he is in the ocean by himself and he is feeling lost in the ocean but he didn't just say he is feeling alone in the ocean because there is no one with him like how he had people when he was with his family.
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Pg.53/ The pink skin was peeled back and looked like the petals of a flower
Pg.201/ I turned to the survival manual as to a cookbook
Pg.119/ warmth came only when the sun, looking like an electrically lit orange
Pg.119/ The calm sea opened up around me like a great book
The Life of Pi is loaded with examples of similes. The purpose of similes is to help the reader become more involved in the reading and to compare on think with another thing of a different kind. It helps to create a picture of something that I already know in my head to what the author is trying to describe. My favorite simile that I found was “Warmth came only when the sun, looking like an electrically lit orange”. When I read this, I can imagine looking into the horizon and seeing just a big and beautiful orange come up. I have seen something like this before. I know by reading this what the author was trying to describe. I think that similes add to the stories. It helps to become one with what I am reading. It is like I am in the story with the characters.
I also liked the simile “I turned to the survival manual as to a cookbook”. I cook a lot with my mom. She follows step by step directions to make delicious desserts and meals for our family. She uses it as a tool. This is what the author was trying to explain by this simile. He needed to follow the survival manual to know what to do so he could survive the elements.
The last simile that I am going to write about is “the pink skin was peeled back and looked like the petals of a flower”. I knew immediately what the author was trying to describe. It reminded me of when I went to Florida and didn’t use enough sunscreen. My skin was pink and it peeled many different layers. It looked like a rose. It was not a fun experience for me as it was painful, but this example helped me to remember and know what he was going through in the book.
The voice that
answered had an Indian lilt to its Canadian accent, light
but unmistakable, like a trace of incense in the air.
Why
it should look about is uncertain since the sloth sees
everything in a Magoo-like blur.
The voice that
answered had an Indian lilt to its Canadian accent, light
but unmistakable, like a trace of incense in the air.
A sloth's hairs shelter an
algae that is brown during the dry season and green during
the wet season, so the animal blends in with the
surrounding moss and foliage and looks like a nest of
white ants or of squirrels, or like nothing at all but part of
a tree.
I think that adding similes are good because it can describe a situation better for better understanding. Some things that happen in life that only you saw it is hard to describe but similes help describe the story in a way that other people can understand. Like my second quote, it says it was a Magoo like blur, that helps describe the picture better.
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