Life of Pi 1-100 Study Guide – Flashcards
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Who does Pi hate and why?
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Agnostics, can't make up their minds.
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Who is Pi's uncle? What did he do?
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Francis Adirubasamy. "Mamaji." He taught Pi how to swim.
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Who is Pi's brother?
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Ravi. He makes fun of Pi regarding religion.
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What is Pi named after?
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The Piscine Molitor pool in France.
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Where does Pi live?
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Pondicherry, the zoo his father owns.
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What's Pi's take on captivity?
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It's better than living in the wild cause you can actually survive.
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Who's Pi's teacher?
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Mr. Kumar. He's a communist, atheist, and avid zoo visiter.
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What's the lesson Pi's father teaches him?
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Tigers are not good. He throws a goat that gets slaughtered.
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What three religions are Pi?
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Hindu,Christian, Muslim
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Who's the other Mr. Kumar?
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A Muslim baker whom Pi prays with.
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What two gifts does PI get involving religion?
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A prayer rug and a baptism
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Where does Pi plan on moving?
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Canada
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Who does Pi through the life buoy to
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Richard Parker
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Who's on the lifeboat?
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Pi,a zebra, orange juice, the hyena, and Richard Parker
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What does Orange Juice bring?
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bananas
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What is the zebra's injury?
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A broken leg the hyena eventually breaks off.
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Why are the animals acting strange?
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Richard Parker is in the boat
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Where does Pi found the life kit?
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Underneath the tarpaulin
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What does Pi decide to build?
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A raft
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What is Pi's definitive plan for RP
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He has to tame him
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What does Pi consider to be "manna from heaven"
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the flying fish that land all over his boat
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Two things Pi constantly feels
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Boredom and terror
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How does Pi claim RP
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1.) resources of water and food 2.) RP has weak sea legs
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psyche
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mind
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conscious mind
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rational, logical part of the mind
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Sigmund Freud
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father of psychiatry,
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preconscious
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place in which are memories are held
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unconscious mind
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regular thoughts cannot be accessed here
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Jung's archetype
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figure that repeats itself in the course of history whenever creative fantasy is fully manifested
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superego
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referees ego and id
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id
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seeks immediate gratification, holds untapped and suppressed feelings,thoughts, and emotions
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ego
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part of how you control yourself with the world
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collective unconscious
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inherited, place where all our thoughts are held
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shadow
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very common archetype that reflects deeper elements of our psyche, where "latent dispositions" which are common to us all arise.
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individuation
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1.) assimilate with the shadow 2.) identify with it - problems emerge
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taboo
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- something that isn't permitted, a sense of wrong
