Life of Pi Chapter Questions Author’s Note Who do you think is writing the author’s note? Is this part of the fiction of Life of Pi, or separate from the story? PART ONE Chapter 1 What does the sloth symbolize to Pi? Chapter 2 Why do you think the author interrupts the story with this chapter? Chapter 3 Why is Pi named after the Piscine Molitor? Chapter 4 Pi states that the common believe that animals in the zoos are unhappy is “nonsense” (16). What response does he give to prove the contrary? Chapter 5 What was Pi’s plan for his first day at school Petit Seminaire? Chapter 6 Why do you think Pi has “a reserve of food to last the siege of Leningrad”? Chapter 7 What is the difference between atheists …show more content…
Chapter 44 Why did the sounds that Pi heard affect him so much? Do you believe sounds are sometimes as scary as seeing something frightening? Explain. Chapter 45 How can we tell that Pi is becoming more desperate? Chapter 46 What difference is seen between Pi and the animals at the end of this chapter? Chapter 47 Who did Pi suddenly realize was also on the lifeboat? How did he feel? Chapter 48 Explain how Richard Parker got his name. Chapter 49 What did Pi finally become concerned with? Why did it take him this long to worry about it? Chapter 50 In point form, provide an accurate description of the lifeboat. Chapter 51 How many days of food and water rations did Pi have? Why was this important to him to know? Chapter 52 Pi made a complete list of the items on the lifeboat. If you could have only five of these items, what five items would you choose? Please rank them in order of importance to you. Chapter 53 How did Pi prevent his death? Chapter 54 How many plans did Pi make to rid himself of Richard Parker? Which plan did Pi choose to use? Chapter 55 What did Pi realize was wrong with his plan? Chapter 56 In Pi’s opinion, what is life’s only true opponent? Why? Chapter 57 What was the name of the sound Richard Parker made? What does it mean? What did Pi then decide to do, and how was he going to do it? Chapter 58 From his readings, what did Pi realize he must build?
In order for his survival, Pi needed to keep himself occupied mentally and physically, where on page 190 he says “I kept myself busy. That was one key to my survival”. It's important that Pi kept himself busy because if Pi had nothing to do, he could be bored to death, literally, by possibly committing suicide to end his misery. Also by keeping himself busy, time goes faster for Pi than it would if he was doing nothing. According to Pi, another way he kept himself mentally stable was by putting the time that has passed aside, he says “I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I Survived because I forgot even the very notion of time” on page 192. If Pi counted the days that passed, it would be demotivating because he would probably just count the days as for how long he has been stranded with no help. It’s also good that Pi forgot time because if he forgot time
“Without Richard Parker, I wouldn’t be alive today to tell you my story.” The significance of this quote is that the presence of Richard saves him from the effects of loneliness. “The lower you are, the higher your mind will soar.” This quote is important because when Pi is at his lowest point, he reaches for his only remaining sources of salvation, which is his faith and imagination. “Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The element couldn’t be more simple, or the stake higher.” The quote significance is that the few that survive the ship are force to face each other in a strategic battle of wits to see who will
Pi’s collective knowledge from his friends and family provided an opportunity to develop a survival mindset and skills that would eventually help him survive through his journey.
Pi’s life before the boat crashing was full of hope and wonder. His presence was ethereal, making a purpose out of everything around him. His family ran a zoo, which gave him a tight-knit relationship with animals. Pi loved to try new things. He met new people which led to his exploration
While having managed to complete the first two levels, Pi begins to think about the loved ones he has lost and others he cannot see anymore. The end of the book helps describe the animals in the boat as representations of human emotions that Pi has detached from himself. This
Despite this constant company, Pi is left for 227 days without proper food, water, and survival equipment with only himself to talk to. The only survivor, no one else truly knows what Pi went through, or what was happening in his head for about two-thirds of a year. By dedicating Part One and Two to telling Pi’s story from Pi’s own perspective, it allows us to understand all the parts of Pi’s survival, even the parts he never told because they were too painful. Besides getting the full story, Pi’s point of view also allows the readers access to the thoughts of Pi that would not be available through third person narration. The thought process behind the training of Richard Parker, the thoughts that led up to no longer being a vegetarian, and other life changing or saving decisions.
So then Pi starts his journey with the porpoises in pursuit to the reef and the beginning of his journey to adulthood. On the first night of his journey it depicts a massive storm with waves crashing over and over again depicting his sadness in this symbolism of losing his parents to the humans but soon shows the happiness he gains
When pressed on the issue of the lack of credibility of the animal story, Pi is forced to give a second, human story because it is the only story that would be reasonably believable, full of “dry yeastless factuality”.
lime, cumin, red pepper, turmeric, and other such surprises. It is a great meal to enjoy if
I must live with that.” (pg. 311). After he gave the story to the investigators they were terrified of what Pi had given them. “What a horrible story” (pg. 311). But they ended up putting the pieces together, and relating the animals with the people Pi gave them in the second
In Pi's 227 days of being stranded in the sea, he has had many problems that have
The mathematical constant to which ‘Pi’ relates his name has a value of 3.14 which is the approximate fraction 22/7 this represents the 227 days Pi survived at sea. When Pi is introducing himself at his new school he goes up to the board in each class during attendance, writes his name and beside it “π = 3.14” and draws “…a large circle, which [he] then slice[s] in two with a diameter, to evoke that basic lesson of geometry.” Pi repeats this same routine with every teacher on the premise that “repetition is important in the training not only of animals but
Chapter 92 is a story of its own. It begins by exciting the reader with something new: an island, then it continues by describing the new lifestyle. Most of the chapter feels like a sort of relief from the horrible journey through the ocean and it calms the reader. In the end of the chapter, the plot twist where the organism is actually carnivorous feels like a betrayal because Pi was given a happy, relaxing life, only to have it violently snatched from him yet again. It is apparent that Pi wishes that he had not found out about the organism’s secret because he says “Ah, how I wish that moment had never been! But for it I might have lived there for years-why, for the rest of my life on that island.” (Martel 310)This shows that he is so happy there that he would have preferred to unknowingly live on an island that is trying to eat him than to know and therefore leave the island. Overall, I enjoyed reading the plot of chapter 92 because it was full of twists and turns that made it exciting and different from the repetitive feel of the rest of the book.
Furthermore, his vast knowledge of animals, having grown up at a zoo, helps him to tame Richard Parker. Pi knows tigers’ psychological thinking and exploits this by classically conditioning Richard Parker. Likewise, Pi’s experience of watching a tiger kill a goat in his early childhood taught him the fundamental lesson that ‘an animal is an animal’, enabling him to strategically and mentally survive his long and testing time at sea. In addition to that, during the early parts of Part 2, Pi comes across a survival manual, a crucial object for his continued existence. The book gives him critical information on the do’s and don’ts of survival at sea and it is hard to imagine that Pi could have survived without this book which also gave him the opportunity to write down his words which were “all he has left’’.
Furthermore, Pi confesses to wanting Richard Parker to live primarily for Pi’s own survival when he states, “A part of me did not want