Vocab
to cause physical or mental suffering
What is afflicting
Main character, grew up in Pondicherry, father owns a zoo, knows 2 mr kumars and believes in 3 different religions.
Who is Pi
How Pi got into the lifeboat
What’s is the Tsimtsum sinking
Symbolizes hope and survival
What is the color orange
A warning or indication of a future event
What is foreshadowing
extremely thin; wasted away
What is emaciated
Lives at a zoo, has stripes on him, is transported on the Tsimtsum with all the other zoo animals
Who is Richard Parker
When Pi starts to learn about other religions
What is when Pi discovers the Christian and Muslim churches
symbolizes the tiger, he is fascinated with it at his father’s zoo and later imagines himself as the tiger on the lifeboat as to separate himself from the awful things he had to do.
Who is Pi
A narrator that can’t be trusted
What is an Unreliable narrator
wild, savage
What is feral
Pi’s mother. The cook on the life boat kills her
Who is Pi’s mother (Gita)
How pi feels sad when he finally reaches shore
Richard Parker leaves him
Symbolizes dominance and also symbolizes humanity and society because Pi uses it to tame the tiger on the lifeboat, but the tiger is himself so he’s actually taming himself and making sure he’s still within societal norms
What is the whistle
a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy
What is magical realism
vaguely, indistinctly; without full understanding or expression
What is obscurely
Pi’s brother
Who is Ravi
A place that gives Pi hope and lets him eat his fill of edible things
What is the algae island
Symbolizes salvation and temptation
What is the algae island
A symbol used to represent something else
What is symbolism
having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous; excessively eager
What is voracious
Hindu priest, outraged when he learned Pi was practicing other religions
Who is Hindu Pandit
What sets in motion pi’s family dying
What is pi’s family moving to Canada
Symbolizes God and the journey
What is the water
The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god animal or object
What is anthropomorphism