SURVIVAL STRATEGIES
In the Life of Pi film, Pi builds this small structure next to the lifeboat to avoid Richard Parker.
What is a raft?
In The Seventh Man, this natural disaster haunted the narrator for most of his life.
What is a tsunami (giant wave)?
He is Pi’s unlikely companion on the lifeboat.
Who is Richard Parker?
The Seventh Man is primarily about overcoming this.
What is fear (or trauma)?
In the Life of Pi film, Richard Parker symbolizes this part of Pi.
What is his survival instinct (or animal nature)?
In The Seventh Man, he survived the wave by running toward this place.
What is the open field?
In Life of Pi (film), Pi faces his fear when he stares into these on the lifeboat.
What are Richard Parker’s eyes?
In The Seventh Man, the boy swept away by the wave was this relation to the narrator.
Who is his best friend (K)?
A major theme of Life of Pi (film) is the conflict between faith and this.
What is reason/science?
The giant wave in The Seventh Man symbolizes this.
What is fear (or trauma)?
The survivors of Society of the Snow endured extreme cold by doing this with their bodies.
What is huddling together for warmth?
In Society of the Snow, survivors showed courage when they made this controversial choice.
What is eating the bodies of the dead?
This person was the captain of the crashed plane in Society of the Snow.
Who is Colonel Ferradas?
The Andes survivors learned about the strength of this human quality, which kept them united.
What is teamwork (or solidarity)?
In Society of the Snow, the snow and mountains symbolize this force.
What is nature’s power (or indifference)?
In the Life of Pi film, Pi trains Richard Parker to obey by using this tool.
What is a whistle?
The Seventh Man overcame his fear by doing this as an adult.
What is returning to the beach to face the wave in a dream/vision?
In the Life of Pi film, Pi tells his story years later to this character.
Who is the writer?
All three stories ask readers to think about the thin line between life and this.
What is death?
In the Life of Pi film, the glowing whale that leaps from the ocean symbolizes this.
What is the beauty and mystery of nature (or the spiritual experience of survival)?
Both Pi and the Andes survivors had to face this shared survival challenge when food ran out.
What is finding unconventional sources of food?
All three works show that survival requires not just physical strength but also this inner quality.
What is mental resilience (or psychological strength)?
In Society of the Snow, these two men became famous for hiking out of the Andes to get help.
Who are Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa?
A common theme in all three is that survival often requires sacrificing this.
What is innocence (or moral comfort)?
In The Seventh Man, the friend K symbolizes this kind of loss.
What is lost innocence (or childhood)?