Paradox

I think the purpose of the paradox in Life of Pi is to show that people have something like multiple personality disorder only it's not a disorder. Martel making Richard Parker a reflection of Pi shows that Pi had another personality different from the religious Pi. Parker represented a wild Pi that would do anything to survive. It helped Martel's purpose because Pi's other personality, Parker, kept him alive and gave him a  reason to live.

Mr. Parker

Life of Pi, logically, would be considered magical realism. It just seems too impossible for a boy to survive alone in the middle of the ocean with a tiger. There are people who work with animals all their lives and are professionals who still get hurt by their animals. Pi actually training Parker is very surprising. If the story were true, Parker would probably have killed Pi for being a pain in the butt with the whistle. In the end of the book, Pi says Parker disappeared into the jungle. There was no proof that Parker was on the boat with Pi. He could have been delusional and imagined the whole thing. Parker just symbolized the fighting spirit of Pi and the animal instincts that kept him alive in the ocean. Martel's purpose is to get people to become open minded towards others and create meaning for their lives. I think Parker was a way to give meaning to Pi who's life had lost all meaning.

Reader Autobiography

People read for multiple reasons. Some people read for pleasure, some people read for school, and some people read just to kill time. A reader could be anyone. All you have to do is read and POOF you're technically a reader or in the process of reading. I think a "good" reader is someone who can read quickly and effectively without compromising their comprehension abilities. As I have said before, I don't have favorite authors. I have favorite books. I guess I consider myself a reader. I've read things before so I guess I am. I learned to read in school. As a reader, I'd like to be able to read different genres without getting bored but I don't really see that happening any time soon. I enjoy reading books about disasters, sci-fi, mystery or funny books. Some teachers require some really terrible books to read so I just don't read them and textbooks are rather boring too. I don't fear reading because if reading is a portal to another world, then I can close the portal any time I please so the nasties can never get me. I didn't really learn anything about my approach to reading. I don't even think i have an approach to reading. I do judge books by their covers. It makes choosing a book much easier because, just like people, the inside isn't the first thing you see. First impressions matter. This process was really energy draining for me but hey, that's school right? What kinda high school would be complete without stress and hormones?

Self-Study

People write because it is a way to express opinions and ideas. A person is a writer if they write anything for fun or money however most people consider writers to be people who have work published. To be a good writer means to be respected by your writing peers. Those peers could be anyone. They could be family, friends, or even internet strangers. I don't have a favorite writer. For me, the books are more important than the person who wrote them. It might seem harsh but that's what I think and it's the same for ideas. Give credit where credit is due is great and all but I feel like it's a waste of time to try and own a thought or idea. Just agree or disagree with it that's all and if you need to use it, use it. I wouldn't consider myself a good writer or a bad writer or someone that writes well. I get my point across but it's not too creative or entertaining. Learning to write is an experience that was pretty normal for me. I sat in school and they told me to trace the lines and then afterwards they told me what those little lines meant. I didn't question it because I was taught not to. I learned in school. That's all there was to it. As someone who writes, I would like to write about my thoughts but in the end it's just what people want to hear because thoughts don't get you grades. What I would like to do better? Well for starters I would like to be able to write something cheerier. It wouldn't hurt to have a few jokes here or there because the longer I write, things sometimes get too serious for my liking. It gets boring and no one likes boring. Writing really isn't often a choice for me and the writing I'm required to do is usually about topics that don't interest me. As far as fears go, anything that I have to present is pretty terrifying. I hate public stuff. This took forever to write. My writing style, discovered merely minutes ago, is to write everything first and change it later. There's no need for a rough draft especially on a computer. This process wasn't quite fun but it wasn't boring either. It was okay. Just okay. Nothing more, nothing less.

What is it?

The picture is a snake that just ate an elephant. It is not a hat because the picture was terribly drawn. If it had been drawn so that anyone could look at it and realize it is a hat then maybe there could be a story behind that hat. Maybe the story will explain why the hat was so terribly made. The better story would definitely be about the snake and the elephant because there are actual characters in the picture. The characters would develop a story way better than any terribly drawn hat could. The lifeless factuality would be the hat for two reasons. The first reason is that the hat is literally a lifeless inanimate object and the second is that it is the boring story that no one wants to hear about.