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Life of Pi began with some casual reading. Yann Martel was perusing through John Updike’s rather negative review of Max and the Cats, a story about a Jewish family who run a zoo in Germany during the years leading up to the Holocaust. They decide to leave Germany, but the boat they take sinks, and…

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How has Martel prepared the reader for the situation in the life boat?
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Last updated by: Aslan on May 07, 2012 6:21 PM
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in chapter 40 is pi more terrified of the pacific or the tiger?
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Last updated by: jill d #170087 on May 02, 2012 1:37 PM
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How did Pi first learn about Islam?
Posted by tiffany r #246785
Last updated by: Aslan on Apr 30, 2012 9:10 PM
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Pi's father liked to talk about what subject?
Posted by tiffany r #246785
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Apr 29, 2012 7:46 PM
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who is the first speaker in Life of Pi
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Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Feb 20, 2012 3:36 PM
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What was the Emergency and how did it affect life for people in India?
Posted by jenny r #226813
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Jan 25, 2012 5:59 PM
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The theme of identifying self?
Posted by holly p #224433
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Jan 12, 2012 8:20 AM
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what does the plot diagram for the life of pi look like?
Posted by anonymous a #221999
Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Dec 27, 2011 3:14 PM
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Why are there two endings to the novel?
Posted by jerry v #199997
Last updated by: Aslan on Oct 24, 2011 11:24 AM
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how did Richard Parker get his name?
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Last updated by: jill d #170087 on Oct 16, 2011 6:08 PM
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How did the Tsimtsum (boat) sink?
Posted by rebecca m #204835
Last updated by: Aslan on Oct 08, 2011 6:19 PM
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anthropomorphism is the giving of human traits to animals. find examples of this related to the sloth. what does this tell us about how pi feels about animals
Posted by meena k #204255
Last updated by: Aslan on Oct 06, 2011 4:08 PM
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Who is/are the "Mr. and Mr. Kummar" that is talked about in Chapter 20?
Posted by nancy b #195185
Last updated by: Aslan on Aug 10, 2011 9:26 PM
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Isn't it ironic Richard parker?we are living in the hell yet we afraid of immortality.
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Last updated by: Aslan on Aug 07, 2011 2:13 PM
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Discuss some of Pi's survial techniques
Posted by sally b #194699
Last updated by: Aslan on Aug 07, 2011 8:20 AM
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Which story do you think is better? explain why?
Posted by soraya n #186539
Last updated by: Aslan on May 19, 2011 11:03 AM
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what does piscine qoute ghandi as saying?
Posted by chase m #185839
Last updated by: Aslan on May 16, 2011 11:23 AM
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Early in the novel, we discover that the narrator majored in religious studies and zoology, with particular interests in a sixteenth-century Kabbalist and the admirable three-toed sloth. In subsequent chapters, he explains the ways in which religions and
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what is the longitude and latitude that is used?
Posted by courtney p #182775
Last updated by: Aslan on May 01, 2011 6:38 PM
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how does pi compare the freedom of the animals in the zoo to the animals in the wild?
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Last updated by: johannes t #168481 on Apr 23, 2011 12:23 PM
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Journal response...
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ending in life of pi is confusing
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