Section A – Making observations
For the reading you've done from the beginning of your lit circle book up to Wednesday, 12/12, respond to the following prompts.
1.) Religion
2.) Bravery
3.) Hope
Section B – Asking questions
1. Small Questions: Write down any questions you have concerning the literal meaning of the text.
What was the reason that the boat sank?
2. Big Questions: Write an interpretative question. That’s a question that people could have different opinions about. These are often good questions for a seminar discussion or for a debate. You do not have to completely answer them; but at the very least jot down thoughts, reflections, and random notes.
How do you fell about Pi taking part in three different religions? Do you think that its a bad thing or a good thing?
What do you think that the significance of the tiger always being with Pi throught out the story is?
Section C – Quotation Analysis
1. What quote struck you as memorable or particularly interesting? Why? What point was the author making? What significance does it have to the meaning of the book?
The quote in the book that struck me as memorable or paticularly interesting is the on that is on page 4.
"If you come upon a sleeping three-toed sloth in the wild, two or three nudges should suffice to awaken it; it will look sleepily in every direction but yours. Why it should look about is uncertain since the sloth sees everything in a Magoo-like blur. As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound. BeeBe reported that firing guns next to sleeping or feeding sloths elicited little reaction."
The reason that this struck me as memorable is because it was funny and it tells about the sleeping traits that of the three-toed sloth. I think that the reason that the author put this part in the story is because he wanted to kind of show that Pi knew alot about animals, reason being is because he has a degree in Zoology.
2. What quote seems particularly relevant to one of the themes you identified above? What does it add to the theme overall? How does that theme enhance the meaning of the book overall?
The quote that I actually picked isn't really a quote. Its page 198 - 200.
Its the Different plans that he has. It goes with the bravery theme that i thought of.
Plan Number One: Puch Him off the Lifeboat,
Plan Number Two: Kill Him with the Six Morphine Syringes,
Plan Number Three: Attack Him with All Available Weaponry,
Plan Number Four: Choke Him,
Plan Number Five: Poison Him, Set Him on Fire, Electrocute Him,
Plan Number Six: Wage a war of Attrition,
This went well with the whole bravery theme mostly because as the list of plans go on they get more intense. As each plan gets worst he gets more brave. The difference is that plan one all he's thinking of is just pushing him off into the water. But once it gets to "Plan Number Five" then he gets more brave and thinks of easier ways of getting ride of the tiger.
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