Characters
The main character, telling his life story.
Who is Pi?
The reason Pi jumped out of the life raft.
What is Richard Parker?
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
What is symbolism?
The animal from the life raft symbolizes Pi.
What is a Tiger?
Who is Richard Parker?
Relating to hell.
What is infernal?
The person listening to Pi's story.
Who is the Canadian author?
This is the one reason Pi thinks an animal would try to escape the zoo.
What is a threat?
A warning or hint to what is to happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
The hyena symbolizes this character.
Who is the cook?
To cause physical or mental suffering.
What is affliction?
Pi's older brother. Who Pi's father wants Pi to act like.
Who is Ravi?
This was the religion Pi grew up practicing.
What is Muslim?
A narrator who's credibility has been seriously compromised.
What is an unreliable narrator?
This animal symbolizes Pi's mother.
Who is Orange Juice?
What is the orangutan?
patient self-control; restraint and tolerance.
What is forbearance?
This is the man who taught Pi to swim and gave Pi's father the idea for Pi's name.
Who is Francis Adirubasamy?
Life's one true opponent according to Pi.
What is fear?
The attribution of human characteristics to non-human entities.
What is Anthropomorphism?
This symbolizes hope and survival. Demonstrated in the life jacket and whistle.
What is the color orange?
Non- religous
what is secular?
This person preferred the story without animals.
Who is the Japaese investigator/Journalist?
Who is Tomohiro Okamoto?
What is Urinate, Clean up after him, rock the boat, blow a whistle, and keep him fed and hydrated.
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?
This symbolizes God and/or an almighty power.
What is water?
extremely angry; furious
What is apoplectic?