Section 1: Life of Pi - Text Knowledge
What or whom does Richard Parker represent in Pi’s second story – the "one without animals" as Pi puts it?
Pi, or Pi's survival instinct manifested
What figurative language device is present in the following quote:
“Oh Zeus, what human trespasses can check your power? Even Sleep, who casts his net on everything, cannot master that—nor can the months, the tireless months the gods control.”
Personification of Sleep
A tragic flaw, an error of judgement, or a crucial mistake caused by hubris, which later leads to the Tragic Hero's downfall.
Hamartia
Pi survives on the lifeboat for this many days...
What is 227?
Life of Pi portrays a realistic setting by doing what?
All of the locations in the setting are in the real-world.
What figurative language device is present in the following
“You saved us from the Sphinx, that flinty singer, and the tribute we paid to her so long.”
Allusion
The reversal of fortune in the Tragic Hero's story that signals his downfall. The reversal often comes about because of the hero's lack of judgment.
Anagnorisis
Why is the lifeboat’s survival manual virtually useless to Pi
It was written for professional sailors, the crew of the Tsimtsum.
How is Richard Parker an example of a magical element in Life of Pi?
Richard Parker coexists with Pi on the lifeboat
What figurative language device is present in the following quote:
“I could be well moved, if I were as you; If I could pray to move, prayers would move me; but I am as constant as the Northern Star, of whose truth-fixed and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament.”
Simile
A punishment that the protagonist cannot avoid, usually related back to their hubris.
Nemesis
How does Richard Parker get his name?
A clerical error replacing its name with who captured the tiger.
How is the algae island “grounded in reality” as per the magical realism traits?
The algae island, although magical, is not explained in the story
What figurative language device is present in the following quote:
“No Caesar hath not it, but you and I, / and honest Casca, we have the falling sickness.”
Pun
The moment where the Hero realizes their downfall, either in the moment it happens or in the events preceding it. Here, in their story, they recognize or identify their mistake or error.
Peripeteia
Pi's lifeboat travels across the Pacific Ocean from the sea outside ____________ to _______________.
Texts in the genre of magical realism have a unique plot structure. Life of Pi follows this trend because:
The story is told out-of-order, starting with the author’s meeting with Mamiji years after Pi’s survival
What figurative language device is present in the following quote:
“I know that you are deathly sick; and yet, sick as you are, not one is as sick as I.”
Hyperbole
The Tragic Hero demonstrates pride excessively over a perceived strength which later turns against them to be their weakness.
Hubris
Mr. Kumar and Mr. Kumar are different characters in the Life of Pi that represent this.
What are a Muslim baker and an Atheist biology teacher.