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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Post #5: LOP Questions
For your new blog response, post two questions about Life of Pi. They can be anything that you're curious about, things you'd like the class to explore, etc. (for example, why does he spend so much time talking about his name?)
Due: Before our next class meeting
HW Reminders: Do all the reading assigned, but don't worry about the brainstorming, outlining, or research question work. We'll be doing all of that in class on Monday.
1. Whats up with the Italicized paragraphs,they never make any sense and just seem to interrupt the story that was being told. Whats the importance of these chapters?
2. Why did the children and mom ignore father for a week? wasn't his way a good teaching techinique
How is Pi's criticism of zoo detractors viewed by the average person?
When Pi says that "...animals don't escape to somewhere, but from something", is that a metaphor for himself, and perhaps why he left his country to move to Canada?
1. Why does the narrator spend so much time talking about the zoo animals?
ReplyDelete2. Who is Richard Parker and what is his relationship to the speaker?
1) is the narrarator obssesed with all animals?
ReplyDelete2) why not change your name completely from pi?
1. Why does the narrator spend chapter after chapter talking about the animals in the zoo.
ReplyDelete2. Why does the narrator's dad make him watch a goat get eaten by a tiger, and tell that all animals are dangerous.
1)What Made The Narrator Love Animals So Much and why did he pick to study for Religious studies AND Zooology?
ReplyDelete2)What Or Who Is Kapil Dev?
1) What evidence can be gathered from the novel that backs up Pi's theory that man is "the most dangerous animals in the zoo is man"?
ReplyDelete2)Which chapter was the most interesting out of all that we read? Explain.
1) Do you think that the elaboration of the animal information from the zoo ties in somehow with his story later on?
ReplyDelete2) Why did Pi discuss the dangers of each animal, emphasizing the tiger? Does the tiger come later in the story?
Why does the author feel he has to talk abuot the zoo for more than half a chaper?
ReplyDeleteWhy does he love sloths so much makes no sense.
Why does he spend so much time on animals?
ReplyDeleteWhy does his father say that the most dangerous man is one we see through our eyes?
Why does the narrator have two different majors and they're not really related to each other?
ReplyDeleteWhy does he spend so much time talking about little details about animals? Why are this details so important or even relate to the story?
1. Why does the narrator talk so much about the zoo animals?
ReplyDelete2. Why does Pi create a certain focus on the tiger?
1. Why does Pi's father call his mother "my bird"; is it some form of affection?
ReplyDelete2. When will the chapters in italics start to fit in with the story and make sense?
1)Why does the narrator talk so much about the animals and the zoo?
ReplyDelete2)why does the narrator's father tell him to stay away from the tiger and make him watch the goat get eaten?
Why was it necessary to not feed Mahisha for three days prior to the lesson Pi's father wants to teach them?
ReplyDeleteWhat was the significance of showing Pi and his brother the guinea pigs?
Why did Pi's father subject them to such a graphic display of violence in the tiger enclosure?
ReplyDeleteWhy did their mother not put up a stronger argument against the demonstration, is it a case of father knows best?
1. Does the story about his father's blunt teachings of Mahisha the Bengal tiger have a relevance in what to come?
ReplyDelete2. How come he's s interested in talking about zoo animals?
Why did the author start this story with describing a special animal, a sloth?
ReplyDeleteWhy did the author describe the lion in a circus after he mentioned that his father made his family experience a dread of the lion?
1. Whats up with the Italicized paragraphs,they never make any sense and just seem to interrupt the story that was being told. Whats the importance of these chapters?
ReplyDelete2. Why did the children and mom ignore father for a week? wasn't his way a good teaching techinique
How is Pi's criticism of zoo detractors viewed by the average person?
ReplyDeleteWhen Pi says that "...animals don't escape to somewhere, but from something", is that a metaphor for himself, and perhaps why he left his country to move to Canada?