*Question Bank*

"Life of Pi" Question Bank

1) What did Pi gain by practicing three religions and not just one?

2) Why do you think Pi's father made Pi and Ravi watch the Tiger kill the goat?

3) Why does religion play such an important role in Pi's life and in the story?

4) Why did the author, Yann Martel, name the protaganist after a swimming pool?

5) Why did the author, Yann Martel, include that Pi was bullied? What does this add to Pi's character and character developpement?

6) Why does the author, Yann Martel, make both Pi and his Mother vegetarians?

7) Why does the author, Yann Martel, put in such a long backstory of Pi's life before the sinking of the ship?

8) What is the point of having the author talk about Pi in the present day as an old man in between parts of the story?

9) Why do you think the author didn't say right away that Richard Parker was a tiger?

10) Why does the author go into so much detail? Does the story gain anything from all the extra details? If so how?

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1) Why do you think Pi uses an orangutan to symbolize his mother?

2) What do the teeth inside the fruit on the island represent?

3) Where do you think the meerkat bones came from? Which do you believe to be truthful, the officials idea or Pi's explaination?

4) Why do you think Pi referes to the french, blind, castaway as a friend and cries for his "brother" if he was really the cook who killed his mother?

6) Is Pi benefited at all by the occurance of events, losing his family and being stranded at sea?

7) Why do you think Pi used a tiger to symbolize himself in the story?

8) Where do you think Pi receives his strength? Richard Parker or God? Explain.

9) Why do you think Pi store cookies and bananas under his bed sheets?

10) What is gained or lost by Pi telling the story with animals instead of humans?