Vocabulary
To be damaged or disfigured
What is Marred?
This symbolizes hope and survival. Usha carries a cat of this color with her.
What is the color orange?
Named after a pool in France.
Who is Piscine Molior Patel?
How did Pi argue with his mother's passport analogy?
What is "if there is only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?"
A warning or indication of a future event
What is foreshadowing?
Non-religious
An irrational mathematical number that the human mind cannot accurately comprehend. Also the name of the protagonist.
What is Pi?
Who is Ravi Patel?
What three religions did Pi begin to follow?
What are Hindu, Muslim, and Christianity?
A narrator providing misleading information
What is an Unreliable Narrator?
Not stopping or slowing down, constant
What is unremitting?
Represents life and death. Pi finds comfort in the "humble tidal ripples."
What is water?
This character plays baseball.
Who is Nikhil Patel?
What did the sloth remind Pi of?
What is God?
A story within a story.
What is Narrative Frame?
Behavior, demeanor, conduct
What is deportment?
The novel's greatest illusion. Seems full of promise.
This character only speaks Chinese and is very sad and lonely in the lifeboat.
Who is the sailor?
Why was Pi named after the Piscine Molitor?
What is Francis' favorite place to swim?
Visually descriptive or figurative language
What is imagery?
Extremely thin, wasted away
Seen as tranquility or even possibly God.
Okamoto's assistant.
Who is Asturo Chiba?
The top buyers for Pondicherry's Zoo animals.
What are Lincoln Park Zoo and Minnesota Zoo?
What is an allusion?