Paradox

The purpose of the paradox of Richard Parker was to give Pi's perspective of the story. Because Richard Parker was not real, Pi used him to show his wild side. The names Richard Parker is a human name, but Yann gave that name to the tiger with a purpose, to show that the name is connected to Pi.
Pi the 3 religions to tame his wild side, or tiger, and keep himself under control. When Richard Parker left Pi alone, it was like the animal inside wasn't needed anymore. Pi's name means irrational, so this whole story about the animal story is irrational.  Pi's perspective gave readers an insight of pi's train of thought, that we need to believe in something to keep ourselves tamed. Martel gives us the story of Pi and Richard Parker to show us that we have different sides and it's an interdependence type relationship, that we need to rely on one's self, we can't survive being alone. Richard Parker helped Pi survive the ordeal, Richard relied on Pi and Pi relied on Richard.

Was Life of Pi a Work of Magical Realism?

Yes, magical realism is realistic narrative and naturalistic technique, combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy. In Life Of Pi, Pi tells the Japanese officials the animal story, but they were unable to accept it because it didn't fit the norm. So instead Pi told them the human cannibalism story, showing the two realities, the tiger story and the human.
 Obviously the tiger story was fiction, and the human story was real, it isn't realistic that a tiger would just hide away from the human or learn to be cooperative. Unless he was a good trainer, but Pi wasn't a trainer, he just knew facts. The tiger represented Pi's animal side, and how he was able to respect his animal side and use it to survive. 

Reader Autobiography

Why do people read? They read for enjoyment, to learn, to retain information. Reading helps increase vocabulary, improve whichever language they are learning, helps lower stress, avoid slightly memory-loss diseases, increase memory, boosts analytical thinking, and many other things. A person is a reader when they think about what they have read, ask questions about it, to be able to enjoy a couple of chapters a day. A person that likes learning new things, someone who wants to increase their knowledge, open minded about new ideas, in my opinion. In other to be a reader, you would need to be able to accept certain things, not necessarily agree with it, but to understand why. Otherwise open minded. In other to be a good reader in my perspective is that the person respects ideas, and is able to hold their argument against a book they have read.

My current favorite author has to be Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, I enjoyed reading Lolita, I like how he was able to create a protagonist who views himself write changing the readers minds using intellectual words, to show that his actions were not horrible. It makes the reader think twice, the reader either thinks that it wasn't the protagonist fault, or it was, and I love how the author was able to create such a brilliant book.

I believe I am a reader, but not a good one. I like reading and learning new things, but I don't believe I pay enough attention when reading to fully comprehend what I read, but I am able to analyze it, or at least explain it. I consider it a part of my identity, reading has gone as far as to help learn new things, to be able to understand peoples works. It has allowed to expand my vocabulary. I learned to read at the early age of 3, I learned how to read by the help of my elementary school teachers, my parents, and myself. I learned by reading books, reviewing the english language till I was able to understand "big girl" language.

I am a passionate reader and at times I feel like I have reader's block. Especially when reading the first page. If the first page does not interest me, I'll probably move on, but if it still bores me and I still read it its probably because its mostly the idea that intrigues me. What I want to do better as a reader is that I want to be to stay interested till I finish the book, to be able to search up the words I don't know. The type of readings I like to read is fiction, and or an occasional non-fiction. I also like romantic. But I mostly like when there is a strong woman in the non-fiction books. The readings that i choose to read are types that i'll educational value things. I don't know what i'm forced to do. I fear writing when they have strong arguments, meaning I have to choose side, and when I do I become a weirdo. This reflection helped me gain ideas of what certain books I would like to read. This process was exhausting though.

Writer Self-Study

Why do people write? It's simple, it is the emotion that comes with it. Writing enables the person ability to express what they feel. Whether they feel sad or happy, writing brings that information into light. It  takes creativity in another level, just like drawing.

To become a writer, its not just expressing how you feel, but having story with it. To be explicit, if you were to write just emotions, for example, a diary would be something that you would write all your emotions in, but that wouldn't make you a writer. A writer needs a plot, conclusion, some sort of idea. Anyone can be a writer, they just need to know how to write a good story, with a good plot.

To be a good writer, you would need proper grammar, word choice, and a good plot, but many people have different opinions about it. It is about personal preference. For example, my favorite writer in Jerry Spinelli, and to me he is a good writer. He has proper grammar, good word choice, and an excellent plot, but again for someone else they might  believe that he is mediocre.

People who like writing are not necessarily good writers, or people who hate writing might be actually good, I mean you never know, there is 8 billion people in the world. I consider myself a bad writer, but at the same time I like writing. I don't consider it as part of my identity, if I were, it will be like saying that the only way to show my emotions is through writing, and I don't that believe that be true about myself. I learn how to write in pre-K if I can recall, everybody in the USA learns it the same way at the same time, but those who are passionate about it accelerate faster than others.

I'm the type who will be passionate about writing, but only for a short time. The reason for that is that i'll always find something that promotes my interests more. I'm passionate only in making the story as enjoyable as possible, if I felt incompetent then I would just start over. When I start writing I don't stop, and when I do I re-read it to see if it made sense, because when i'm passionate about something, I start moving the story forward, in a way that it makes sense only to me, like an inside joke. What I would like to do better is to think in a different perceptive and ask myself, does this make sense in someone else's point of view? To keep myself in check.

I like to write fiction stories, just make something up and roll with it, even if its something dumb as long as it entertains me in way. I enjoy non-fiction and fiction types of writings, mostly non-fiction, since I can learn something from it. I fear writings that just take long to get to the point, not fear were i start reading and I get scared and run to my mother, but fear as in dislike. It takes my time to read complete utter nonsense just to learn something, why waste time when i can read another book with more information.

While writing this, I was able to reflect on myself, I gained that i'm impatient and that I have short attention span, sometimes. I learned that writing can help you understand what's going around in your head, like typing whatever is on my mind. This process was entertaining.  


   

Better story?

The Snake or The Hat Story?

Which story is believable, which is more interesting?

Obivously it is a hat, but it is more of an amusing story to state that it is a elephant inside a snake. Its impossible for a snake to swallow an elephant, that is so heavy and so big, but hearing about it interest people because they never heard of such thing. The more believable stuff like the hat story is boring, it doesn't have anything, no story, nothing interesting, or questions popping up about the hat. Simply boring.