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        <title><![CDATA[Imagination enabled Pi to take what was an awful tragedy, a horrific...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Imagination enabled Pi to take what was an awful tragedy, a horrific experience, and a living nightmare, and turn it into an endearing tale of survival, friendship, and endurance.  The harsh reality that Pi had to deal with--the brutal, violent loss of his mother, having to surive with a cannibalistic mad-man on a raft, and then fight to the death for his own survival--was just too much to endure.  Any person faced with such brutality and...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The island is a rather remarkable and fantastical element to Yann...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The island is a rather remarkable and fantastical element to Yann Martel's "Life of Pi," and requires the reader to really suspend their disbelief in order to believe that it could actually exist.  In interviews, Martel himself said that he put the island into the story in order to require the reader to take a leap of faith.  The entire story thus far is pretty interesting, and takes a lot of faith to believe in the first place.  Pi,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 21:35:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Life of Pi" what is the symbolism of the island?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Life of Pi" what is the symbolism of the island?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:09:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Life of Pi" how does faith and imagination rescue Pi from the depth...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Life of Pi" how does faith and imagination rescue Pi from the depth of his misery?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:17:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what is the writing methods used in life of pi to sugest that the story...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/life-pi/q-and-a/what-writing-methods-used-life-pi-sugest-that-120445</link>
        <description><![CDATA[what is the writing methods used in life of pi to sugest that the story is true??]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:11:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Science, especially in the form of zoology, helped Pi quite a bit in his...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Science, especially in the form of zoology, helped Pi quite a bit in his survival on the lifeboat.  Pi was able to use his knowledge of animals, especially in regards to the concept of "alpha males" and territorialism.  As soon as Pi realized that he was alone on a life raft with a starving tiger, he knew that he had to establish himself as the alpha male, with very clear-cut boundaries, so that Richard Parker would not harm him.  He very...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:42:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Life of Pi" how does Pi combine and use religion and science to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Life of Pi" how does Pi combine and use religion and science to survive on the lifeboat?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:22:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It is through Pi's character development that Yann Martel grows and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is through Pi's character development that Yann Martel grows and discusses each of these themes; he is the mode of communication through which the themes are shown.  Pi, at the beginning of the novel, had no idea how to survive in the terms that he would eventually be able to.  Throughout the novel, we see his character grow more hardened, efficient, and honed to the task of surviving.  Before he was forced to survive on the raft with...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:12:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Exposition refers to the beginning of a story, where the author...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Exposition refers to the beginning of a story, where the author establishes a setting, introduces the characters, and provides a foundation for all of the coming action and conflict.  We get to know the characters a little bit, and are given pertinent background information that will help us to understand their reactions in the face of the succeeding plotline.  Given that definition, the exposition in "Life of Pi" is quite a long one, about...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:19:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the exposition, climax, and resolution in "Life of Pi?"]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the exposition, climax, and resolution in "Life of Pi?"]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:01:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Pi's character development contribute to major themes in "Life...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Pi's character development contribute to major themes in "Life of Pi"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:16:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That's an interesting question that deviates from the normal connections...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That's an interesting question that deviates from the normal connections that people make to these animals.  Normally, people connect these animals to real people that Pi shares in an alternate story that he relates at the end of the book.  So, to relate each of these animals to Pi himself is an interesting exercise.  I'll give it a go.
The hyena represents Pi's brutal, animalistic side that was willing to do whatever it took to survive. If...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:41:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Yann Martel's "Life of Pi", how do each of the animals on the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Yann Martel's "Life of Pi", how do each of the animals on the lifeboat represent a different part of Pi's personality?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:15:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what does the setting in "Life of Pie" , the pacific ocean, symbolize??]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[what does the setting in "Life of Pie" , the pacific ocean, symbolize??]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:02:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The previous answer was pretty disparaging of religion, but one does not...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The previous answer was pretty disparaging of religion, but one does not need to be. When one begins to compare zoos with religion, there are many things one can see in terms of similarities. Let me give a few:
1. First, let me reverse the logic of the previous answer. Just as man creates zoos, so God creates religion.  This is another way to look at things. And it is just as legitimate to say.
2. Zoos can only function because people take...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:05:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[how does the symbolism in life of pi relate to the themes of religion...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[how does the symbolism in life of pi relate to the themes of religion and survival?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:22:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[One reason that Pi mentions for being a Hindu is that when he was young,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[One reason that Pi mentions for being a Hindu is that when he was young, too young to even remember consciously, his mother and aunt brought him to Hindu rituals, and the sensory experience of those rituals somehow stuck with him and felt natural and like home to him.  He states,

"I am a Hindu because of sculptured cones of red kumkum powder and baskets of yellow tumeric nuggets, because of garlands of flowers and pieces of broken coconut,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:20:48 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Life of Pi" why does Pi become a Hindu?  Can you describe Hinduism...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Life of Pi" why does Pi become a Hindu?  Can you describe Hinduism for me?
 ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:13:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Besides the loss of his family and possessions, what else does Pi lose...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Besides the loss of his family and possessions, what else does Pi lose when the Tsimtsum sinks? What does he gain?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:02:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the end, Pi joins three different religions, because all of them have...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the end, Pi joins three different religions, because all of them have something that appeals to him.  As far as Christianity goes, the first thing that attracts Pi to is is the wonderful and psychologically interesting story that is attached to it.  He is blown away by the fact that Jesus, the son of God, would pay for all of the sins of humanity.  This is a confusing thing to Pi; as he ponders it, he thinks that it is so very sad that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:48:14 PST</pubDate>
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