Pi
Name the family connection Early imagines correlating to the numbers of Pi.
3 is the mother, 1 is the child, 4 is the father.
Kansas
Who is Fish?
Early's high-achieving order brother who was MIA during WW2.
What is Early's pet?
frog named Bucky
What does YAR mean?
Quick to maneauver, easy to handle.
What rescues Pi from the ancient one who had gently kidnapped him?
The Bear.
What does Jack see in the stars? Why is this significant?
A cluster of stars like a ring that disappears… reminds him of the navigator ring and his father.
Name the school in which Jack is enrolled.
Morton Hill Academy
Why does Early think Fisher is not dead?
Evidence:
he knew Fisher could hold his breath underwater
he knew Fisher was an excellent swimmer
he would have taken off his dog tags
he was in the background of a newspaper article about The Bear
What is the coxswain's job?
They direct and navigate the boat since the rower if facing backwards and can't see, trusting the navigator.
After Pi left "The Thinkers" in their village, what peril did he encounter?
Shark infested waters AND swarms of bugs.
Who is waiting for Early, Jack and Gunnar when they arrive back at Gunnar’s cabin?
The pirates.
What is a ragatta?
A rowing race that is tradition at the school.
What do we know about Early's mother?
She died when he was born early.
In which state is the school?
Maine
What is the connection between Early and Pi?
What did Jack see in the stars?
A circle representing the navigator ring that his dad gave him.
Why did Emmaline and Gunnar separate?
Because Gunnar killed 2 people and felt guilty.
Who rescued Early from the woods?
Fisher
Describe Pi's catacombs and Early/Jack's correlation catcombs.
Pi: he waded into a stream and was washed into a cave or "whispers, sighs, of the soals who were unable to let go of their burdens."
Jack/Early: The cave behind the waterfall where the boy's body is found
What did Pi find in the catacombs that helped him escape?
He found his father, giving him hope and the will to live.
Mother: emotional excitability (poems, relationships, story telling)
Father: psychomotor: being in the navy is physically demanding OR
intellectual: linear thinker, orderly, sequential, more comfortable with ideas than feelings
Who died of a brain aneurysm.
Jack's mother.
Early says Fisher reminds him of Jack's father. Why?
Jack's father fixed the soap dirby car, taught him the names of constalations, and is now lost like Fisher.
Where was Gunnar born and what was his shrine?
Oslow, Norway and books are his shrine