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Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Life of Pi The Book Genre: Novel (Fantasy Adventure) First Published: September 2001 Other facts: more than ten million copies sold. Rejected by at least five London publishing houses before being accepted by Knopf Canada. Many prizes awarded. Translated into other languages. Film version 2012.

Life of Pi The Author Name: Yann Martel Born: June 25, 1963, Salamanca, Spain Occupation: Novelist Citizenship: Canada

Plot Young man Piscine Bengal tiger Lifeboat Ocean

Survival

Family zoo immigration

stormy night cargo ship

shipwreck

Settings

Pondicherry, India

Settings

Pacific Ocean and an Island

Settings

Tomatlan, Mexico and Canada.

Characters

A story within a story Various narrators and narrations The Author (no Y.Martel) interviews Pi. Pi (most of the story narrated in first person) Two Japanese officials (Maritime Department of Ministry of transport) Author’s note Part of the story

Names • Piscine Molitor Patel = Pi 3.14 (swimming pool – “Pissing”) • Thirsty (the Bengal tiger) = Richard Parker

• Mr. Satish Kumar x 2 (biology teacher and atheist) – (Muslim baker)

Anthropomorphism • Meaning • Santosh Patel: zoo’s animals are wild not pets – tiger fed a goat wildness • Pi’s talk with the tiger

Other elements • Duality – religious studies and zoology (Religion and science) – (polytheism -Hinduism, Catholicism and Muslim– Vegetarianism)

• Themes: Religion – Spirituality – Natural world – Suffering – Fear – Madness • Motifs: Strength Love courage