The Green Dragon

In the fantasy book of Inheritance Eragon and his dragon Saphira struggle to match Galbatorix and his evil ways. Eragon and Saphira are getting closer and closer to Galbatorix, but Eragon isn't sure if he can face Galbatorix face to face yet, Galbatorix has too much power. Galbatorix was able to manipulate a powerful set of dragon and rider. With two powerful people in control of the Empire Eragon is a little intimidated on his own.

If you look at the cover of Inheritance you'll notice a green dragon. In my prediction Arya an elf will become the dragon rider for this new dragon. When Arya uses magic and uses fire she emits a green flame and when Eragon uses magic and uses fire he emits a blue flame and his dragon is blue and she breathes blue fire. With Christopher Paolini's novel targeting teens, I think that he will want this book to end in a good way. With this prediction it would make it a better happy ending.

Richard Parker

Authors Note: I know you might be thinking this piece is really short, well it is, but I think it get’s the point across and explains it pretty good.

A lifeboat floats over a never ending blue abyss; it sees nothing but dark brackish water. The smell is unbearable. The four animals – an orangutan, a zebra, a hyena and a Bengal tiger – stain the boat with urine and soil it with their waste, but Pi resists the smell for now. He knows that the most threatening animal underneath the tarp is ironically the one thing keeping him alive. In Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, the Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker and the stranded boy named Pi Patel are symbolically one.

Richard Parker embodies the natural instinct Pi is forced to use to survive. Pi was furious at the hyena when he killed the beloved Orangutan. It was at that point Richard Parker arose from his den and killed the hyena. It is not coincidence that when Pi was angry, Richard Parker went in for the kill. This example connects the two as one. When Richard Parker came up from the den he awoke the inner savage in Pi. Pi had to transform himself from a strict vegetarian to a cold hunter. Then he continued on his way killing fish, and consuming their flesh.

Pi tried to find out ways to eliminate Richard Parker, but then realized that he must keep him alive because if he were to kill him then it would be like you were killing a part of yourself. Richard Parker wasn’t a nuisance to Pi and he wasn’t a threat. Richard Parker was life.

Platypuses

As the semi-aquatic mammal known as a Platypus awkwardly propels itself through the water he searches for shrimp, larva, and worms. This duration of swimming, hunting and eating lasts as long as 10 hours. After this time period of the platypus crawls to its burrow and sleeps for 14 hours, then later when he wakes up and repeats its daily cycle.

The Platypus is a well known mammal because of its odd design and its special ability to lay eggs. This type of mammal would be classified as monotremes which are mammals who have the ability to lay eggs. In this classification there are a few other mammals with this same ability.

A Platypus is very interesting specie its features include a wide duck billed beak, webbed otter feet, a tail similar to a beaver’s and a poison barb attached to its two hind legs which only the male platypuses can use. When they are in trouble have to act quickly and hit the enemy with their poison barb. If a small mammal were to be injected with its venom, let’s say a dog, it would die of poisoning, but even though the platypus’ venom is lethal to small mammals, humans are affected, but is not enough to kill us. If you were to be injected, then the pain would last for a month.

When a platypus swims it closes its eyes. How do they know where they’re going you ask? Well, a platypus locates its prey and places around it using its electromagnetic senses. The key locator for the electromagnetism is in the skin of their beak. The beak scans the area around the platypus then sends a map of the location around it.

As we might all know that platypuses are very awkward species they walk funny, swims awkwardly and has a wide variety of strange body parts, but that’s why I chose to pick this animal. We can learn a lot of things about a platypus and we still haven’t found out everything about it. A platypus has many mysteries that still need to be unlocked, but with research there is a lot we can uncover.

My Theory

Author's Note: This might not be the largest piece I've wrote, but I think I've proved my point.

Using Yann's interview,  Yann is trying to tell us is that there is two parts to a person. Pi Patel is a strict vegetarian and as we might all know Richard Parker a Bengal tiger would be a vicious predator and would be the complete opposite of Pi. When Pi first got onto the boat he didn't know what to do he thought that a ship would come to rescue him and he would be reunited with his family, but sadly that didn't happen. Instead Pi had to set aside his vegetarian ways and turn into a hunter, a predator, he had to turn into Richard Parker.

 This is when the two parts of a person comes into play. As you heard in the last paragraph Pi had to turn into Richard Parker, so this is the first part. Richard Parker symbolizes our instincts and what we think we should do in the time of need, then Pi comes into play. This is our generation of people, we are thinking that someone is going to save us and someone will rescue us. It is where we want to be, but all of that was set aside when Pi turned to his instincts and saved himself from a horrible death.