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Pi's curiosity
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Pi notes that "necessity is the mother of invention" (ch. 50, p. 139).
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On the novel "Life of Pi", what did the author argues?
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What is suggested by Pi's telling the author that everything from before the family's emigration was "lost"?
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What is the difference between atheists and agnostics? Why does Pi feel atheists have a faith? Why does he dislike agnostics?
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2. Yann Martel has said that the hyena is meant to represent cowardice. Explain how this is true.
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What has promoted this discussion between pi and mr kumar
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Author's note, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5
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Author's note, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5
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martel presents an idyllic description of indian. what does this set up in readers mind
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Think about Pi's relationship with death at different points in the novel. How does he view death at the end of his ordeal? During it? What about when lives in Pondicherry?
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Agree with us, just for a second, that there are three orders of being in Life of Pi: divine, human, and animal. How does each type experience death? Do these orders of being overlap?
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Pi fears despair more than death. Why is this? How can an emotion scare him more than the end of his life?
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Upon leaving the carnivorous man-eating island, Pi says, "I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island." What does Pi mean by "spiritual death"?
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If you were suppose to have a spokesperson, who would you use as Hindu spokesperson. Yhey have to be alive and not a celebrity, and why?
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Why did Pi’s brother say, “What’s this I hear about you having a new name . . . I didn’t realise you liked the colour yellow so much?”
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Why does Pi credit Richard Parker with saving his life?
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how does Pis actions throughout this chapter demonstrate his animal instincts for survival
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Several times Pi says "you can get use to anything". Give one example of what he has to 'get used to".
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In Chapter 52, Pi discovers the locker and the treasures within. What item from the list would you have been most excited to see if you were in Pi's situation. Why?
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In Chapters 37-41 Pi speaks about 'reason' a number of times. What do you think Pi relies on more in these chapters, his faith or his ability to reason? Or does he demonstrate both?
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