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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Yann Martel's "The Life of Pi"
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Yann Martel's "The Life of Pi"
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Yann Martel's "The Life of Pi"
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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Yann Martel's "The Life of Pi"

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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Yann Martel's "The Life of Pi", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateFeb 15, 2019
    ISBN9780028666372
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Yann Martel's "The Life of Pi"

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      it really helped alot, cleared many misconceptions I had when reading the book. it does has some mistakes here and there but if you read the book you will realise them and glance through them without being confused. Case in point : PI bought himself the praying mat and got baptised by his own accord.

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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for Yann Martel's "The Life of Pi" - Gale

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    Life of Pi

    Yann Martel

    2001

    Introduction

    Yann Martel's 2001 novel Life of Pi tells the incredible story of a sixteen-year-old Indian boy's survival drifting across the Pacific Ocean for 227 days trapped in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. An international best seller and winner of the Man Booker Prize, Life of Pi combines the thrill and suspense of a survival narrative with the complexity and depth of a postmodern novel to tell the story of Pi, a gentle-natured Hindu-Muslim-Christian, and his companion, Richard Parker, a starving, 450-pound adult tiger. With a focus on the overlap between religion and science and the gap between what is known and what can never be known, the novel tests the reader's suspension of disbelief at every turn as Pi's journey across the Pacific steadily frays reality. An alternative version of Pi's survival, delivered unceremoniously at the end of the novel, casts into question the plot that comes before it. But billed as a story that can make a nonbeliever believe in God, Life of Pi leaves its readers desperate to believe in the better story: the one with the animals.

    Author Biography

    Martel was born on June 25, 1963, in Salamanca, Spain. His parents were French Canadian graduate students at the time of his birth. When they completed their studies, they joined the Canadian foreign service, traveling as a family to Costa Rica, Mexico, France, and Canada. Martel attended high school in Port Hope, Ontario. As an adult, he traveled to Iran, India, and Turkey. He attended Trent University in Ontario from 1981 to 1984 and graduated from Concordia University in 1985 with a degree in philosophy.

    Martel decided to pursue a career in writing at the age of twenty-seven. Though his first language is French, he writes in English. His first short story collection, The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, was published in 1993. The title story was awarded the Journey Prize. Martel's first novel, Self, was published in 1996. With the publication of Life of Pi in 2002, Martel gained international notice. The novel was awarded the Man Booker Prize, the Asian/Pacific American Award of Literature, and the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was a selection for CBC Radio's Canada Reads series. An international best seller with over twelve million copies sold, the novel was adapted into a film in 2012 that won four Academy Awards.

    Martel taught comparative literature at the Free University of Berlin from 2002 to 2003 and then served as writer in residence at the Saskatoon Public Library from 2003 to 2004. He published a second collection of short stories, We Ate the Children Last, in 2004. The title story was adapted into a short film in 2011. A nonfiction compilation of Martel's book recommendations to the Canadian prime minister, titled What Is Stephen Harper Reading? Yann Martel's Recommended Reading for a Prime Minister (and Book Lovers

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