finals

Question 1

survival - 01 -

Answer 1

“Richard Parker! Don’t give up, please.”
-> RP swimming to lifeboat, pi encouraging him to swim.
- tone.

Question 2

survival - 02 -

Answer 2

“I was now a killer.”
-> Pi smashing his first dorado (fish)
- direct characterization

Question 3

survival - 03 -

Answer 3

“you must understand, my suffering was unremitting and he was already dead.”
-> Pi eating strips (burnt n used for fishing bait) of the French men
- word choice of ‘unremitting’

Question 4

survival - 04 -

Answer 4

“All my life I had known only a part of her.”
-> after Orange juice strikes the hyena
- foreshadowing

Question 5

survival - 05 -

Answer 5

“Something in me died then that as never come back to life.”
-> when orange Juice dies
- symbolism

Question 6

storytelling - 01 -

Answer 6

“it’s just too hard to believe!”
-> japanese men telling pi his animal story is too hard to believ
- word choice of belief.

Question 7

storytelling - 02 -

Answer 7

“You want dry, yeastless factuality.”
-> pi confirming with the interviewers what story they want
- imagery

Question 8

storytelling - 03 -

Answer 8

“The story.”
-> chapter 97
- symbolism

Question 9

storytelling - 04 -

Answer 9

“Doesn’t that make life a story?”
-> pi to the interviewers
- repetition of story (irony of it)

Question 10

religious belief - 01 -

Answer 10

“I have a story that will make you believe in God.”
-> molitor patel to author
- frame story / metafiction

Question 11

religious belief - 02 -

Answer 11

“I just want to love God.”
-> Pi talking to the three religious men
- figurative language using the word ‘love’ (metaphor?)

Question 12

religious belief - 03 -

Answer 12

“Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect?”
-> pi trying to understand christianity
- contrasting metaphor

Question 13

religious belief - 04 -

Answer 13

“That is God as God should be.”
-> pi comparing Jesus to hindu gods
- repetition of the word ‘God’

Question 14

definition of freedom - 01 -

Answer 14

“One might even argue that if an animal could choose with intelligence, it would opt for living in a zoo.”
-> pi arguing about zoos being good
- persuasive language technique of opinion

Question 15

definition of freedom - 02 -

Answer 15

“Animals in the wild are, in practice, free neither in space nor in time, nor in their personal relations.”
-> pi arguing about zoos being good
- syndetic listing

Question 16

definition of freedom - 03 -

Answer 16

“Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.”
-> christianity and zoos both being wrongly interpreted
- dramatic word choice of illusion

Question 17

definition of freedom - 04 -

Answer 17

“there is no more happenstance, no more ‘freedom’,”
-> talking about animal behaviours
- abstract noun freedom

Question 18

relativity of truth - 01 -

Answer 18

“This story has a happy ending.”
-> author future talking thing
- contrast

Question 19

relativity of truth - 02 -

Answer 19

“But I don’t insist.”
-> pi wrapping up his rant about zoos being good
- word choice of ‘insist’

Question 20

relativity of truth - 03 -

Answer 20

“Isn’t just looking upon this world already something of an invention?”
-> interview
- rethorical question

Question 21

relativity of truth - 04 -

Answer 21

“which story do you prefer?”
-> end of the interview
- metafiction

Question 22

power quote - 01 -

Answer 22

“lack imagination and miss the better story.”
-> interview
- antithesis

Question 23

power quote - 02 -

Answer 23

“Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.”
-> zoos and religion (pi ranting about zoos being good then closing off with this)
- metaphor / imagery

Question 24

power quote - 03 -

Answer 24

“Something in me did not want to give up on life”
-> pi in lifeboat
- personification of ‘life’

Question 25

power quote - 04 -

Answer 25

“All my life I had known only a part of her.”
-> orange juice smacking the hyena
- metaphor