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Life of Pi Novel Study Booklet

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BEFORE READING ACTIVIES

****Do Life of Pi Similies and Metaphors PDF****

Who is Canadian?As a class, discuss:

(a) What does it mean to be Canadian and what is our Canadian identity? (b) Is being Canadian an individual or a community enterprise? (c) What is the relationship between the individual and the community in Canada? (d) How do individuals shape a community and the country, and how do the

community and the country shape their citizens? (e) What contributions have Canadian individuals (e.g., famous and not-sofamous;

First Nations, Métis, Inuit, long-time Canadians, new Canadians) made to the character of the Canadian community? To the global community?

(f) How do Canadians navigate their local, regional, national, and global communities?

(g) What is the basis of Canadian national pride? (h) What is Canada’s international image in the global community? (i) How are the multicultural perspectives in Canada captured and represented by

its artists and authors? (j) How can Canadians and their communities with varying and divergent beliefs

act ethically, cooperatively, and respectfully? (k) How can the individual or collective beliefs of Canadians influence Canada’s

actions? (l) Do Canadian citizens share collective principles that define them as Canadians? (m) How do Canadians facilitate understanding of one another’s beliefs?

Look at the 2006 census on the next page. What’s your reaction to those figures?

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Similarities

Hinduism Christianity Islam


Compare and Contrast: Life of Pi World Religions

DifferencesWith respect to…


Pre-Reading Questions

1. Draw up a list of ten essential items that you would include in a survival pack, either for a wilderness expedition or for a lifeboat at sea. Compare and discuss list items with your classmates. Then, create a final class list.

2. Imagine you were lost alone in the wilderness, or adrift alone in a lifeboat at sea. What aspects of your mind and body might help you to endure and survive? What aspects of your mind and body might interfere with your ability to endure and survive?

3. Think about a domestic animal. Write five “rules” of that creature’s innate nature that govern its behavior.

4. Describe an experience—for example, an event or emotional experience—that was a turning point in your journey from childhood to adulthood.

5. Describe a leap of faith you once made. What inspired you to make this leap? What was the outcome? What this the outcome you expected?

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DURING READING

Life of Pi Assigned Reading Due Dates

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Reading Assignment DueFinish Part 1

Finish reading to the END of ch. 52 (p. 162)




Finish reading to the END of part 2

Finish part 3


Life of Pi – Introduction to the Novel

1. On page viii in the author’s note, a man offers a story idea to the author, saying, “I have a story that will make you believe in God.” Be mindful of the concept of faith as you read Life of Pi.

2. Zoology and Theology: what are they? What are their differences? What are their similarities?

3. What are your opinions of zoos and the lives of zoo animals?

4. What is an agnostic? An atheist?

5. As we read part 1, be on the lookout for references to Richard Parker. Our very first introduction to Richard Parker is on page 7. Reread this carefully and make predictions about the relationship between Richard Parker and Pi.


LIFE of PIAllusions Assignment and Quiz

Listed below are several allusions found in Life of Pi. Knowledge of these allusions can enhance your appreciation and understanding of the novel. Briefly research them and make a few point form notes. Be sure to record your source(s). You will be quizzed!

Work on these as we progress through the novel.

Tolstoy (vii)

Kierkegaard (vii)

Isaac Luria (3)

Gallic (11)

Medina (24)

Siege of Leningrad (27)

Gethsemane (31)

Ravana (33)

Bedouins (66)

Robert Louis Stevenson, Conan Doyle, R. K. Narayan (80-81)

Methuselah (94)


Kathakali dancer (168)

Saint Sebastian (201)

Cain (203)

Durga (216)

Hanuman (217)

Gideons (230)


Life of PiDiscussion Questions: Chapters 1-14

Complete these questions as you read Life of Pi. They will guide you through the novel. You may answer in point form. These may be assessed as homework check marks.

1. How does Pi visualize death and the role it plays in his life?

2. Why was Pi named after a Parisian swimming pool? Can you predict any irony in this?

3. Why did Piscine shorten his name to Pi?

4. On page 16, Pi says, “I have heard nearly as much nonsense about zoos as I have about God and religion.” Later in the chapter, he says, “I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both” (21). After reading his descriptions of zoo life, has your opinion about zoos changed – or at least been made a little more open to change?

5. Who is Mr. Satish Kumar? What are his religious beliefs?


6. Why does Pi feel kinship with Mr. Satish Kumar?

7. Explain what Pi means when he says, “The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists” (34).

8. What is your opinion of the lesson that Pi’s father imparts to him and Ravi?

9. Although the information about the behaviour of wild (zoo) animals may seem extraneous, Pi is giving us this information for a reason. The information will help us to understand Pi’s actions and decisions while he is a castaway. Predict how the following information will be helpful to Pi in Part 2:

Pi’s father’s lesson involving the danger of zoo animals

the information about animals getting used to the presence of humans (chapter 9)

animals that escape from zoos (chapter 10)

animals being able to hide in foreign environments (chapter 11)

lion taming (chapter 13)

the hierarchy of animals (chapter 14)


The Three Religions in Life of Pi

The religious debate on pages 73-77 is a reflection of the greater world’s religious divisions.

What criticisms do the Christians have of the Hindus?

What criticisms do the Christians have of the Muslims?

What criticisms do the Muslims have of the Hindus?

What criticisms do the Muslims have of the Christians?

What criticisms do the Hindus have of the Muslims?

What criticisms do the Hindus have of the Christians?

*What do these three religions have in COMMON?


Reflection

Please respond on the portal to 2 of these 3 prompts.

After reading Pi’s experience with the three religions and listening to the presentation, do you have a better understanding about each of these three religions? What were your misunderstandings?

Do you find anything attractive and/or interesting about Islam? Hinduism? Christianity? Can you understand why some people choose to be Hindu or Muslim?

Did you gain any insights about Christianity?

Religion Reflection Assessment

9-10 = Your composition shows evidence of insight, maturity, and serious reflection about your ideas about religion. It is obvious that you have taken the time to probe the topics. The composition is well written. You have used a variety of sentences and precise vocabulary.

7-8 = Your composition shows evidence of insight, maturity, and reflection about the topic. The composition is written competently. Errors are not distracting.

5-7 = Your composition discusses the religions in Life of Pi. Some reflection is evident. OR Despite a mature reflection on the subject of religion, errors are distracting.

1-4 = Your composition shows little evidence of personal reflection.


Yann Martel on Tigers, Cannibals, and Edgar Allen Poe

“Indeed, the choice of Richard Parker as the tiger’s name was no coincidence. In fact, it’s the result of a triple coincidence.’

Yann Martel

1. Richard Parker would appear to be a name to avoid if one proposes going to sea. Two

Richard Parker’s were victims of maritime cannibalism. One a fictitious character by Edgar

Allan Poe and the other a real life victim aboard a ship the Mignonette over 100 years ago.

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2. In the early 1800s Edgar Allan Poe published his one effort at a novel an awful work

entitled The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym. If Poe hadn't written it it would have

vanished without a trace. (4)

3. In The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym, there was a shipwreck in which four survivors

were left clinging to the hull. Rather then die of starvation they draw sticks to see which

one would get eaten. The loser is a man named Richard Parker. (6)

4. In 1884 46 years after the books publication a yacht named the Mignonette was making

a trip from England to Australia. On it’s way the boat sank and the four survivors became

stranded in a dinghy. (5)

5. After sixteen days, Captain Dudley and his two mates killed and ate the cabin boy

coincidentally a young man named Richard Parker. (1)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1884

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Parker


6. The third reason why Martel is inspired to name the tiger Richard Parker is because of

the story of the Francis Spaight. It sunk and one of the victims was named Richard Parker.

When the survivors were found it was discovered that a number of seamen had been eaten.

7. Yann Martel said, “So many Richard Parkers had to mean something”. (1)

Notes have been adapted from: http://www.canongate.net/News/BehindLifeOfPi and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi

http://www.canongate.net/News/BehindLifeOfPi


Survival Skills 101

Brainstorm: in order for humans to live life to the fullest, and have the will to live in tough situations, we must fulfill our heart, mind, body, and soul. As a class, we will complete the pyramid below with the order in which our needs must be met. Fill in the space with examples of items in each category.

Next, pay attention to the Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs PowerPoint. You don’t need to take notes; just take the information into consideration.

Now, create a visual (physical or on the computer) that you can present to the class of the things in your life you cannot live without. This presentation is informal and will last a maximum of three minutes. Often times we say “I can’t live without my [insert thing that we really like and/or are addicted to but do not actually need to keep ourselves alive].” Think… do you really need that thing?


Chapter 52: Complete Pi’s List of Survival Items

Health: (4) Rescue: (4) Food Gathering: (5)

Food: (3) Survival at Sea: (13) Miscellaneous – Helpful (6)

What is missing?

What isn’t necessary?

[Correct as a class]


CHAPTER 56: Life of Pi: Pi’s concept of fear…

Obviously, Pi has many fears to deal with on the boat. He fears the loss of his family, the various animals, the water, the isolation, and death. However, Pi is able to confront and conquer his fear.

1. Circle the correct answer: In Chapter 56, Pi contrasts/symbolizes/personifies death.

2. List one-word adjectives to describe fear:

Ex: “has no decency” uncouth, impolite

a. “respects no law or convention” _____________

b. “shows no mercy” _____________

3. Record the simile Pi uses to describe fear on page 178. Be sure to use quotation marks and the page number in proper MLA format.

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4. What role does reason play in the “battle” against fear?

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5. Do you agree with Pi that when in fear, “only your eyes work well. They always pay proper attention to fear”? Explain your opinion.

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6. In the extended metaphor throughout this brief chapter, Pi compares

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7. Does Pi explain that people need to face their fears? Provide proof from the text.

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8. Why is Richard Parker responsible for saving Pi? (hint: for what is Pi grateful?)

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9. What life lesson, which Pi hated and resented, did Pi’s father bestow on him that is incredibly useful to Pi now?

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Reflection: You may have heard expressions such as,

What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. Be grateful for your hardships. They are life’s greatest teachers. If there was no sorrow, we would not appreciate happiness.

Respond to the following question in one well-written paragraph. If you are lucky enough to not have any experience with it, what have you witnessed in others and their dilemmas?

What is your “Richard Parker?”

“What is Your Richard Parker?”

4 = Your paragraph shows evidence of insight, maturity, and serious reflection about your fear. The paragraph is well written. You have used a variety of sentences and precise vocabulary.

3 = Your paragraph shows evidence of insight, maturity, and reflection about your fear. The paragraph is written competently. Errors are not distracting.

2 = Your paragraph discusses your fear. Some reflection is evident. OR Despite a mature reflection on the subject of your fear, errors are distracting.

1 = Your paragraph shows little evidence of any personal reflection.


Life of Pi: Chapter 58-74

Chapter 58

1. What understanding and conflict does Pi have about the suffering he is enduring on the boat?

Chapter 59

1. Explain the metaphor Martell uses when Pi discovers “the sea is a city” (194).

Chapter 61

1. Why is it easier for Pi to kill the dorado than to kill the flying fish?

Chapter 62

1. Quote the metaphor that Martel uses to describe the solar stills.

Chapter 63

1. Is Pi’s faith a part of his dilemma?

2. What has happened to Pi’s sense of time and his memories of his time on the boat?

Chapter 66

1. Explain a significant change in Pi’s personality.

Chapter 71

1. What is Pi’s method for training Richard Parker?

Chapter 74

1. Explain the state of Pi’s faith journey.


Chapter 75 p. 323: Happy Birthday, Mom

Write a poem for your mother. Use the space below for your drafts. Turn in your final copy on a separate sheet of paper. Feel free to decorate it. You can share it with her (or not). Draw in Pi’s experiences to help you connect.

This poem is due on ________________________________________.


Life of Pi Part 2 Reading Check (Chapters 75-94)

You may respond to the following questions in point form.

1. What sea animal does Richard Parker fight, kill, and eat?

2. What is Pi’s dream rag?

3. What may have caused Pi’s and Richard Parker’s blindness?

4. Who else does Pi encounter on the ocean and what do they have in common?

5. What do Pi and the other person talk about?

6. What is it that Pi forgot to mention to the other person? What happens to him/her?


7. What is the “exceptional botanical discovery” that Pi makes? Explain its geography/ecology.

8. What animal inhabits the island? If you can’t remember the name, just describe them.

9. How do the animals behave with Pi around?

10. What new trick does Pi teach Richard Parker?

11. Where do the animals sleep? Why?

12. What does Pi discover about the “fruit” on the trees?

13. Why does Pi leave the island?


14. Why does Pi take Richard Parker with him when he leaves the island?

15. Why is Pi disappointed with the way Richard Parker “disappeared forever from [his] life?”


AFTER READING

Janice : Whenever I mention the title people immediately think it has to do with mathematics. There was no intent on your part for that, was there?Yann Martel : I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a "rational" understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, "irrational" yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.

From: http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=823

Super Quick Summary and Info:

The first 106 pages of the novel are preparing us for a deeper understanding of the events in part 2 when Pi is a castaway on the lifeboat with the tiger. Chapters 1-14 provide us with background information about Pi’s life and his knowledge of zoo animals. Chapters 15-36 provide us with background information about Pi’s spiritual development. All this information is important because it helps us to understand Pi and the decisions he makes as a castaway.

The novel is told in first person, from the perspective of Pi. However, in part 1, there are italicized passages. The italics are also used in the author’s note prior to part 1. Any text written is italics tells us that the author is interjecting with his own observations and ideas. These are NOT Pi’s thoughts.

Part 2 retells Pi’s experience on the life raft. There are no interjections made by the author.

Part 3 tells of the experiences Pi had when he was finally found and rescued off the coast of Mexico.


Life of Pi Personal Response

Complete the following questions. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.

They are due on _______________________________.

1. At the beginning of the book, the old man in the Indian café tells the author "I have a story that will make you believe in God." What were some of your thoughts and ideas about religion and God’s role in our lives as you read Pi’s story?

2. Which of Pi’s two versions of his story do you prefer? Which story do you believe? Did hearing the second version change your perception of Pi and the events we read?

3. What is your opinion about the fundamental natures and similarities of the three religions that influenced Pi’s spiritual development?

4. Discuss Pi's alleged encounter with the French chef, toward the end of his ordeal. Did it "really happen," or was it a figment of Pi's imagination? What evidence are we provided to support either conclusion? Why are we driven to consider this question when it's all fiction anyway?

5. "This story has a happy ending" (93). Martel's author note and his references to the real surviving Pi living happily in Montreal throughout the tale. What are the author's intentions with these apparently factual references to how he came by the story and met the character? Does the story have a happy ending?

6. How does the interview with the Japanese businessmen change your reading of the novel? What possible interpretations of Pi's tale are suggested in the course of the interview between Pi and the Japanese businessmen? Which version is "right," or does it even matter?

Heads up! COMING UP: ALLUSIONS QUIZ on __________________________!!!


Life of Pi Editing Practice

This book caught the attention of famous Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.

Here are her comments about Life of Pi.

“This tiger burns bright. He is everything Blake would want in a

tiger and more. He growls, he glows with life-force, he is roaring,

he's beautiful, he ripped things apart. Which of his fellow-

passengers on the Noah's Ark from Hell will be his dinner first.

How will Pi avoid this fate, and the other fates in store. How will

he cope with thirst, exposure, starving to death, giving up in

despair? Here the story turns both lyrical and, literally, visceral.

This book has guts. But Pi is an ingenious and practical boy and

he makes use of the materials at hand. Suffice it to say that if you

ever need to know how to train a tiger using the whistle from a

life-jacket, this is the book for you”.


THE ALLEGORY OF PI

An ALLEGORY is a piece of literature that can be read on a deeper level. For example, Lord of the Flies is, on the literal level, the story of what happens to a group of boys who are stranded on a desert island. Lord of the Flies can also be read as an ALLEGORY of society: the island represents a country, and each of the boys represents a particular facet of society (government, religion, technology, etc.).

Life of Pi can be read as an allegory of the human/spiritual experience. Part 2, in particular, is allegorical of the human experience. Each of Pi’s experiences and ordeals represents a facet of every person’s life. Pi is “Everyman”, which then implies that we all have our seas, lifeboats, and tigers with which to contend.

Pi’s Experience What it Represents to himand his survival:

Allegorical Symbolism:

The Sinking of the Ship

The life-raft

Richard Parker

The Dream Rag

The Algae Island


Allegorical Symbols in Life of Pi

Sinking Ship:

Unexpected disasters or tragedies we have to face in lifeo Ex: loss of friends or family; divorce and break-ups; unemployment, disease

Lifeboat:

The things if life that can “keep us afloat” during difficult times; that things that sustain us

o Ex: friends, family, support groups, our own knowledge and previous experiences, faith

The Sea:

Life in general; unpredictable, can kills us or help us during our life journey. The relationship between the sea and the life boat – life (sea) moves us along and we may not always know where we’re going, etc. Pi is unable to control the life boat’s course = fate, destiny??

Richard Parker:

The part of ourselves we need to tame (lying, addiction, lust, etc) The challenge we face in life. If we don’t overcome (tame) them, they can get the

best of us. Remember what Pi said about fear! Our enemies

The Dream Rag:

Things that allow us to escape from reality but are not progressive or helpful to the situation at hand

o Drugs, alcohol, gambling, other bad habits

The Algae Island:

The things in life we think will make us happy or save, but the won’to Material possessionso “if only I could get that job/partner/car/computer/new cell phone, etc.

the island looks like it could save Pi, but in reality it could eat him alive. He has to leave its relative comforts and continue his journey on his own.


πProbably no symbol in mathematics has evoked as much mystery, romanticism,

misconception and human interest at the number pi.”

-William L. Schaaf, Nature and history of Pi

Pi occurs in hundreds of equations in many sciences including those describing the DNA

double helix, rainbows, water ripples, superstrings, general relativity, normal distribution,

distribution of primes, geometry problems, waves, navigation, etc.

Pi is an extremely interesting number that is important to all sort of mathematical

calculations. Anytime you find yourself working with circles, arcs, pendulums (which

swing through an arc), etc. you find pi popping up. We have run into pi when looking at

gears, spherical helium balloons and pendulum clocks. You can also find it in many

unexpected places for reasons that seem to have nothing at all to do with circles.

There are people who believe that pi contains the answer to the universe or that

information is held in the digits. It has even been suggested pi contains the voice of God. In

Carl Sagan’s book Contact, the places of pi are found to contain a message from the beings

that built the universe. The number appears routinely in equations describing fundamental


principles of the universe, due in no small part to the nature of the circles, and

correspondingly, spherical coordinate systems.

Pi’s name is a shortening of his given name Piscine, but is also referenced as the number pi.

Pi floated on the ocean for 227 days. This is also another play on the number pi, as on of

the earliest approximations of pi was 22/7. Martel may have chosen the name to

references the unknowability and unreliability of the narrator, Pi.

Near the end of the novel Pi says, “I wonder – could you tell my jumbled story in exactly

one hundred chapters, no one more, not one less? I’ll tell you, that’s one thing I hate about

my nickname, the way that number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude

things properly. Only then can you let go” (316-317).


Life of Pi

Significant Quotations

1. “And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge” (27).

2. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation (31)

3. “In both stories the ship sinks, my entire family dies and I suffer…so tell me since, there is no factual difference to you and you can’t prove the question either way, which story do you prefer?” (Martel, p. 317)

4. Life of Pi makes a good novel for discussion. There will probably be two camps of thought - those that want credible realism and resolved answers, and those that enjoy the imaginative journey and the questions the novel raises.


Group Share: Essay Practice

Each group will be assigned a prompt below. Working as a group, construct an outline for this potential essay. YOU WILL NOT BE WRITING AN ESSAY. Using the template “The Essay That Writes Itself,” complete the necessary information to form the basis of an essay.

1. "There are three hills within Munmar..on each stood a Godhouse. The hill on the right... had a Hindu temple high on its side: the hill in the middle, further away, held up a mosque; while the hill on the left was crowned with a Christian church."Pi is a convert to three faiths - Hindu (p47) Christianity (p54-57) and Islam (p60)Discuss the importance of faith versus doubt in the book.

2. In light of the 'story without animals' , how does this change your view of Pi and his ordeal? What is the 'deeper truth' to his survival ? Are either of the versions actually 'the truth'?( Who was the blind Frenchman?)

3. Pi's full name, Piscine Molitor Patel, was inspired by a Parisian swimming pool that "the gods would have delighted to swim in." The shortened form refers to the ratio of a circle's circumference divided by its diameter. Explore the significance of Pi's unusual name.

4. Early in the novel, Yann Martel includes a chapter in which Mr. Kumar the biogogy teacher and Mr. Kumar the Muslim baker meet at the zoo. Their viewing of the zebra is symbolic of the merge between science and religion. Discuss other examples in the novel in which an understanding and appreciation of science and religion

5. How do the human beings in your world reflect the animal behavior observed by Pi? What do Pi's strategies for dealing with Richard Parker teach us about confronting the fearsome creatures in our lives?

6. Pi's full name, Piscine Molitor Patel, was inspired by a Parisian swimming pool that "the gods would have delighted to swim in." The shortened form refers to the ratio of a circle's circumference divided by its diameter. Pi explains that “in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, [he] found refuge” (27). Explore the significance of Pi's unusual name.

7. Yann Martel said, “I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a "rational" understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, "irrational" yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.” With Martel’s statement in mind, explore the significance of Pi's name.

8. Early in the novel, Yann Martel includes a chapter in which Mr. Kumar the biology teacher and Mr. Kumar the Muslim baker meet at the zoo. Their viewing of the zebra is symbolic of the merge between science and religion. Discuss other


examples in the novel in which an understanding and appreciation of the relationship between science and religion is required.

9. At the beginning of the book, the old man in the Indian café tells the author "I have a story that will make you believe in God." While religion is central to Pi's character, the novel is otherwise not overtly religious. In what ways does this book present an argument, however broad, for God? Think about the concept of faith and belief.

10. Life of Pi can be read as an allegory. Is Pi’s story an allegory of the human experience?

11. Pi states, “In both stories the ship sinks, my entire family dies and I suffer…so tell me since, there is no factual difference to you and you can’t prove the question either way, which story do you prefer?” Since neither story can be proved, discuss the deeper meaning of Pi’s survival story.

12. Pi’s life is faith-filled. Discuss the influence of faith on Pi’s life. Be sure to refer to all three parts of the novel (don’t simply focus on his faith development in Part 1).

13. As the meaning of the story is explored even further, a person can look past the factual events and focus on what Pi mentally and spiritually experienced in his journey to survive. The fact that he had the bravery, skill and the will to live is enough evidence to believe that he could have very well survived both stories he told. Do you agree or disagree with the above statement.

14. Pi’s life story could be described as a Canadian story. Provide insight into how Pi’s life and journey are similar to that of many Canadians. Aside from the fact that Yann Martel is Canadian, what purpose does this book serve in ELA A30: Canadian Perspectives: Distinct and Rich.

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