Individuality: - Name 'Pi': swimming pool segregated from both family + country plot is Pi's search for his identity after being separated from family + society signified through changes in his name - stigma attached to Pi's individuality - connection to Religion - society encourages Pi to choose only a segment of his identity by choosing one religion, however this is not the core of Pi's being
Richard Parker: - ambiguity surrounding separate or singular identity with Pi -animal + human merged in construction of character (e.g. mother + Orange Juice)
-disconnection with sense of 'human' identity' + perhaps what is considered 'reality' by society. -Pi's identity exists more prosperously through illusion or the intangible i.e. religion, fantasy + imagination -seeks refuge in personifying the animals into his friends, family + identity, rather than struggling to relate to the superficial of society (i.e. 3 wise men, Ravi)
Piscine (swimming pool): -forced upon character, no choice in our own name, + 'Pi' finds no comfort or identity in his given name. -associations with water, controlled + secure environment/body of water, constructed by humans + unnatural.
3.14: - infinite + irrational number - no limits, never ending - unknown, unpredictable - and yet, makes sense of the universe - self-named ^ All parallels can be drawn between associations with Pi + Pi's experience in the environment of the specific
Individuality:
ReplyDelete- Name 'Pi': swimming pool
segregated from both family + country
plot is Pi's search for his identity after being separated from family + society signified through changes in his name
- stigma attached to Pi's individuality
- connection to Religion - society encourages Pi to choose only a segment of his identity by choosing one religion, however this is not the core of Pi's being
Richard Parker:
- ambiguity surrounding separate or singular identity with Pi
-animal + human merged in construction of character (e.g. mother + Orange Juice)
-disconnection with sense of 'human' identity' + perhaps what is considered 'reality' by society.
-Pi's identity exists more prosperously through illusion or the intangible i.e. religion, fantasy + imagination
-seeks refuge in personifying the animals into his friends, family + identity, rather than struggling to relate to the superficial of society (i.e. 3 wise men, Ravi)
Piscine (swimming pool):
-forced upon character, no choice in our own name, + 'Pi' finds no comfort or identity in his given name.
-associations with water, controlled + secure environment/body of water, constructed by humans + unnatural.
3.14:
- infinite + irrational number
- no limits, never ending
- unknown, unpredictable
- and yet, makes sense of the universe
- self-named
^ All parallels can be drawn between associations with Pi + Pi's experience in the environment of the specific
Chapter 2
ReplyDeleteAuthors is identifying Pi
Chapter 3
"I was named after a swimming pool."
Chapter 4
Page 20-23
Hints at the idea of bending the truth to suit him (how he is judged)
"IT's Pissing Pate"
"Known to all as Pi"
Page 255
"This was the terrible cost of Richard Parker. He gave me a life of my own, but at the expense of taking one.