Reinvention is a particularly broad and wide-ranging concept. There are many types of reinventions and many perspectives on the concept. In the quote "It is circumstance that enables us to reinvent ourselves and the world around us" it defines the concept as one involving individual and global transformations, developments and changes due to a change in circumstance. In the texts, `Life of Pi' by Yann Martel, `Introduction: What's Going On Here?' by Walter Truett Anderson, `New Improved Sonnet XVIII' by Peter Titheradge and `Transformation - Japan' by Japan Focus, they explore the concept of reinventions by using a variety of techniques to present certain ideas about the concept.

`Life of Pi' explores the concept of reinventions in many ways. One type of reinvention is explored by the complete transformation of the way a...