Quotes + Scenes Flashcards
Pi 1:
The scene where Pi’s pragmatic father destroyed his childhood innocence by feeding Richard Parker a live goat in front of his eyes.
Diegetic low growl juxtaposed with the hopeless bleating of the goat is symbolic of Pi’s childhood naivety being consumed by reality.
Ender 1
“the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It made ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.”
Metaphor
Pi 2
After the storm sequence, Pi felt that after losing everything, that he and Richard Parker were dying. His new world/view was one that he had no control over his life and just had to accept that no one would be there to save him, not even God.
Through the use of non-diegetic Bansuri flute music, we are invited to feel along with Pi.
Ender 2
“there was no doubt now in Ender’s mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no one would save him from it.”
Emotive/expressive language
Pi 3
In the scene where Pi has to kill a fish violently to feed Richard Parker, he becomes disgusted with himself and his inner killer.
Technique: The reaction shot shows Pi’s face as he realizes what a horrible act he had just committed and the lack of music emphasizes the sounds of his cries.
Ender 3
“’Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly… in the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in the very moment I also love him. And then, in that very moment when I love them I destroy them.”
Literary Technique: Dialogue.
Pi 4
When Pi calls Richard Parker back to the boat, knowing that “leaving him behind meant killing him”, if you were to look at Richard Parker as a part of Pi’s consciousness, the darker part willing to do anything to survive, by Pi calling him back to the boat you can see it as a scene where Pi accepts that part of himself. Pi slowly starts to accept the things that he has had to do in order to survive and accept his whole self.
long angle shot allows the audience to see the bigger picture and see how far apart they were and how when they needed each other they came back together.
Ender 4:
“And always the dream ended with a mirror or a pool of water, something that would reflect his face back at him. At first it was always Peter’s face, with blood and a snake’s tail coming from the mouth. After a while, it began to be his own face, old and sad, with eyes that grieved for a billion murders-but they were his own eyes, and he was content to wear them”
Literary Technique: zoomorphic imagery
Pi 5
When Richard Parker leaves for the last time, if you see it as Pi not needing the darker part of his psyche and his consciousness moving on, you can finally see the protagonist moving on and not needing to rely on the darker parts of himself.
close up shots show Pi’s emotional reaction and his pain at losing a part of himself.
Ender 5
“It did not occur to them that this twelve-year-old boy might be as gifted at peace as he was at war.”
Contrasting two wildly different things.
Pi 6
at the end, Pi saying to the interviewer “what happened, happened, why does it have to mean anything?” this means that he has accepted what has happened to him and doesn’t question why it happened anymore, and ultimately found peace. It is suggested to the audience that he has moved on, and found new meaning in his life when his family joins them.
dialogue
Ender 6
“Wherever they stopped, he was always Andrew Wiggin, itinerant speaker for the dead, and she was always Valentine, historian errant, writing down the stories of the living while Ender spoke the stories of the dead.”
Literary Technique: symbolism
