"His house is a temple. In the entrance hall hangs a framed picture of Ganesha, he of the elephant head."
Who is the narrator?
100
As a teenager, Pi becomes a devout follower of Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. In his life, Pi practices all of these, which serves to illustrate this theme.
What is the theme of religion and believing?
100
Analyzes and interprets the structure and style of the writing
What is formalist theory?
100
"Other first that I could not identify were yellow, brown, silver, blue, red, pink, green, white, in all kinds of combinations, solid, streaked, and sparkled."
What is visual imagery?
200
The amount of time Pi was adrift in the Pacific Ocean
What is 227?
200
"In a lifeboat? Come on, Mr. Patel, it's just too hard to believe?"
Who is the Japanese office, Mr. Chiba?
200
Besides the few chapters providing additional narration, the whole novel is told in first person perspective. The fact that the story is written in this way portrays this theme.
What is the theme of the importance of storytelling?
200
Deals with archetypes
What is mythological theory?
200
"Those first hours are associated in my memory with one sound, not one you'd guess, not the yipping of the hyenas or the hissing of the sea: it's the buzzing of the flies."
What is onomatopoeia?
300
Pi, alone on the life boat with a Bengal tiger, realizes he needs to become the alpha male. Pi works to tame Richard Parker through these techniques.
What is through the orange whistle and utilizing Richard Parker's tendency to suffer sea sickness?
300
"I have a story that will make you believe in God."
Who is the elderly man in India?
300
Despite Pi being a very subdued person, his animalistic instincts came out on the boat. He was a vegetarian, but moved beyond this in order to eat fish and turtles in order to stay alive. Since Pi went to drastic measures aboard the boat, it displays this theme.
What is the theme of the will to survive?
300
Evaluates the motivations of the characters, and why they do what they do
What is psychoanalytical theory?
300
"Normally I'm a sound sleeper. Normally I would have gone back to sleep."
What is parallelism?
400
After Pi washes ashore in Mexico, two Japanese officers come to interview him to get more details on the ship wreck. Although they came to receive details on the sinking, Pi reveals this key element that plays into the religion versus reason theme.
What is the "real" story with the humans?
400
"Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart."
Who is grown-up Pi?
400
In Part One, Pi was just a young boy growing up in India. When the ship sunk, things changed. Due to his need to survive, Pi acts in drastic ways, showing the progressive. This shows what theme.
What is the theme of the loss of innocence?
400
Used to reveal human desires, fears, and expectations
What is mythological theory?
400
The carnivorous island is a symbol for this.
What is the Garden of Eden?
500
When Pi is adrift in the ocean, he suffers a stint of blindness. During this time, he comes across another blind man, one of French ethnicity. In an act of desperation, the blind man attempts to do this.
What is eat Pi?
500
"If we had politicians like these goats and rhinos we'd have fewer problems in our country. Unfortunately we have a prime minister who has the armour plating of a rhinoceros without any of its good sense."
Who is Mr. Kumar, the teacher?
500
At the end of the novel, when Pi is recounting his time at sea, he tells a story with animals and a story with humans. The two stories present a conflict for the reader: which is the real story? The fact that Pi tells two stories presents this theme.
What is the conflict between religion and reason?
500
The authors works to write themselves or their opinions into a piece of literature
What is psychoanalytical theory?
500
"It seemed the presence of a tiger had saved me from a hyena--surely a textbook example of jumping from the frying pan into the fire."