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Life of Pi tells the fantastical story of Pi Patel, a sixteen-year-old South Indian boy who survives at sea with a tiger for 227 days. Pi, born Piscine Molitor Patel, grows up in the South Indian city of Pondicherry, where his father runs the zoo. A precocious and intelligent boy, by the age of fifteen Pi—Hindu from an early age—has also adopted Christianity and Islam, and considers himself a pious devotee to all three religions.

Thanks to government upheaval that has long been distressing Pi’s father, the Patels decide to close the Pondicherry Zoo and move to Canada when Pi is sixteen. Pi, his mother, father, and brother Ravi all board the Tsimtsum along with the zoo’s animal inhabitants (who are on their way to be sold around the world).

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Posted By jenny r #226813 at Jan 25, 2012 5:39 PM

What was the Emergency and how did it affect life for people in India?

Why is understanding this historical event central to understanding Yann Martel's Life of Pi?

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The theme of identifying self?

Any ideas on the theme of Identifying self withing Life of Pi?
So far I have the use of the three relgions that Pi follows in an attempt to Understand life, and therefore himself but I honsestly have no real idea as to how this theme fits in with the novel.
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what does the plot diagram for the life of pi look like?

I am pretty sure that there are two climaxes, but I do not know how to draw the diagram. Can some one please help me out? Thanks!

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