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Life of Pi

Door: Hanneke Wolff van Wulfing

V6

Where do you think the name Pi comes from?

Tabel of content

- Trailer

- Author

- Context

- The story and plot

- Themes

- Literary devices

- Homework

After watching the trailer, in which genre would you place this book?

Author

- Yann Martel (61)

- Born in Spain 1963, lived in Alaska, Costa Rica, France, Mexico.

- Booker Prize for fiction

Context 

- Historical -> 1970s, political unrest in India.

- Social -> multicultural, faith, survival.

- Literary -> adventure and magical realism.

- Of the author -> traveld, based on a book by Brazilian writer.

The story

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Moved to India

Loves life in the zoo

Discovers religions

Moves to Canada

Boat sinks

Hallusionates a castaway

Floating island

Plot

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Arrives after 200 days in Mexico

Richard Parker walks away

Pi is rescued

Investigation by Japanese insurance agents

Themes

- Faith and Religion

- Survival and Resilience

- Reality vs Perception

- Isolation and Loneliness

- Man vs Nature

Literary devices

- Aestheticism -> 19th centery movement

- Allegory -> symbolic narrative

- Allitration -> repetition of sounds

- Antigonist

"The ship sank. It made a sound like a monstrous metallic burp. Things bubbled at the surface and then vanished. Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart. From the lifeboat I saw something in the water."
Search for literary devices

Which one of the literary divices fits best with this fragment?

1. Alliteration
2. Antagonist
3. Allegory
4. Aestheticism

Homework