Double Bubble Map of Characters

Bubble map of Pi

Theme Multi Flow map of survival- Meghan

Art

Though art is never directly mentioned or incorporated into a theme of this novel the style in which Pi and the author describe the settings make one create detailed images.

“The ship sank. It made a sound like a monstrous metallic burp. Things bubbled at the surface and then vanished. Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart. From the lifeboat I saw something in the water” (Martel 97).

With in depth descriptions like this Martel is able to create vivid images of Pi’s ordeal at sea. Whether it is his description of the boat sinking or Pi’s interaction with the wildlife in and out of the water. As see in the picture above the images one would imagine when reading this book could easily be turned into a painting or expressed in a variety of art mediums.

Poetry In Life of Pi

Though the poetry in never directly mentioned in Life of Pi, many similarities can be drawn between the way in which Pi depicts his 227 ordeal on the life raft with that of an epic poem. In the first version of Pi's adventure at sea, which accounts for a majority of the book, Pi creates an alternate reality in which he replaces humans with animals that exhibit the same characteristics as those who actually were present on the raft.
The animals that Pi supposedly is trapped on the life raft with include a zebra, hyena, an orangutan, and a full grown tiger. These animals however are not present and instead are metaphors for people that were on the raft. The zebra represents a sailor who breaks his leg falling to the life boat, and like the zebra he ends up dying. The orangutan represents Pi’s mother who like the zebra ends up dying at the hands of the hyena. The hyena is a metaphor for the brutal psychotic cook that takes refuge on the raft. He is responsible for the deaths of the sailor, who he intends to use as food, and Pi’s mother, who gets in his way. Pi is the tiger in his story yet speaks as if they are separate. It is he who kills the cook and the tiger who kills the hyena.

Music -Meghan

You've Got a friend in me


The song that our group chose to represent "Life of Pi" is the song You've got a friend in me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB2gPZRsz0Q

This song reminds people that when they are going through a hard time a friend can be the person to help them through the hardships. In the " Life of Pi" Pi is stranded on the life boat for 227 days. Since he is stranded with many animals he knows that he has to find a companion to keep him up in high hopes until he reaches home. That friend is Richard Parker. Richard Parker is the only animal on the life boat that in end is a good friend to Pi because he fights off the the hynea who was going to kill Pi for food. This is a turning point in their friendship and from there on Pi looks at the journey as either they both survive or they both die together.

* Pi is also very religious and as many of us have experiences music is a key factor in each of our different religions we practice. 

-Hinduism, Islam and Christianity

This is a hindu song that Pi could have listened to. It is very different from our culture but it was interesting to read a novel where the main character experimented with three different religions 

Themes- Meghan

SURVIVAL


* There are many underlying themes in the "Life of Pi" while others are more obvious. The most important theme I believe has to with survival and how a person must want/ need the will to survive. The novel plays out to have a very negative plot - when Pi's family dies and he is stranded on life boat for 227 days, this to many people would seem to be the end of life but not for Pi. Pi and Richard Parker actively fight together against their doomed fate of death and in the end are able to survive. - Pi was a vegetarian and he must now eat fish to survive.

Animals on the life boat try to fight off each other till their very last breath and Martel shows this by talking in depth about their terrible, sad deaths.
- What one must do in order to survive

-What seems to be acceptable in the case of life vs. death in order to survive in the dangerous world.

**Another theme that goes away from Religion, music , poetry and and philosphy is that humans are not better than animals.
- animals in the zoo are as "free" as the animals in the wild.
-terrioty it calls home- animals that escape the zoo stay near