VWO 3 Unit 5.7 (Thursday 10 June 23/24)

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Unit 5

India

Homework

Study, study, study, study...

Today:

• Welcome & lesson goals (5 minutes)
• Literature

• TASK
  
• End of lesson 
  

Lesson goals

Students:

know the difference between a straightforward story and a frame story.

Life of Pi

Adventure story

• Piscine Molitor Patel (Pi)
  
• Pondicherry
  
• Family zoo
  
• 1975: democracy India brought to a halt - Indira Ghandi (Prime Minister)
  
• leave the country
• June 21st 2977: Tsimtsum (Japanese cargo ship) - Canada

You see author Yann Martel talking to Pi for the first time, asking him about the extraordinary story he has to tell.
Name four amazing details of Pi’s life that are shown in the trailer.

Pi’s family moved for political reasons. ‘Bad politics is bad for business.’ Think of other reasons why a complete family would leave their country in order to start a new life elsewhere.

What to do with Richard Parker? (pg 219)

• Read along please: Unfortunately... (5:38 - 5:43:39)

Frame stories (frame narrative)

Straightforward story has a: beginning, middle, end

Frame story: 

• - story within a story (at least 2 tales)
  
• - narrator telling another tale that took place in a different situation or time
  
• - complex structure
  
• - not told as 2 separate tales. Narrator in 1st tale comments on 2nd tale.
  
• - not told chronologically
  
• - flashbacks/flashforwards (complicated reading)
  

Life of Pi = frame story/narrative 

Author: Yann Martel (in the trailer) interviewing Pi.

• Transcriptions of the interview with Pi, telling him about his youth and his ocean:
  

Part One: Toronto and Pondicherry
Part Two: The Pacific Ocean
Part Three: Benito Juárez Infirmary, Tomatlán, Mexico) 

• Translations of a report by Japanese investigators. They interrogated Pi in a hospital after his rescue. Mr. Okamoto (one of the investigators) sends a letter and tapes to the author. 
  

(Martel explains: 'Mr. Okamoto, in his letter to me, recalled the interrogation as having been "difficult and memorable". He remembered piscine Monitor Patel as being " very thin, very tough, very bright".)

TASK (this lesson!)

• Paragraph 5.7: 

Exercises 2 t/m 4

(for the audiobook Life of Pi): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw1k-LDIgck)