Life of Pi Discussion Questions 1. Life of Pi allowed the author to gain what he had been hungry for. He was wanting to write a good book and had been unsuccessful many times. Life of Pi was the emotional nourishment he had been longing for. 2. The town made a difference in Pi’s upbringing because it showed him the different religions and learned many needed from the zoo. 3. Mr. Adirubasamy claims Pi’s story will make you believe in God‚ although my beliefs were not altered. 4
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Anne Moody in his book ’’Coming of age in Mississippi’’‚ isn’t sure that the civil rights movement will end up as being a success. She is having a lot of doubts about the future‚ questioning herself about her sacrifices and the suffering she had to endure as an activist. In 1968‚ the civil rights movement and the freedom summer are still recent memories and nothing is won. The author wonder‚ if Mississippi will always be stuck in another time. She had gave so much to the cause that she cannot envision
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knocks me out is a book that‚ when you’re all done reading it‚ you wish the the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.” -pg. 18 J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is coming to age story with an unhappy ending that captured the adoration of people across the decades from 1951‚ when it was first published‚ to the present. While Holden himself is an unlikable protagonist‚ he is a relatable one. He doesn’t want to grow up‚ no
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His skin still tanned‚ was lightened after so many years indoors. His cheeks were still rosy with energy and happiness . He had become stronger with age‚ both in body and in mind. He became the head editor of a nationwide magazine. Although a small company‚ the magazine it published was read by both adults and youth of all ages. Every day‚ he rose with the sun in order to manage the next edition of this magazine. Every day he would return home‚ only to rise again the next day. It was long
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As a kid or a teenager you tend to play sports such as basketball but as you start to come of age you tend to slowly let those types of things go. A basketball in this story represents growing up and coming of age. One day Bobby’s friends call him and ask him if want’s to go to the court and play some basketball after Bobby just put feather down for a nap. Bobby goes ahead and says sure not thinking about Feather so he hurries and grabs his basketball and goes out the door. He starts walking towards
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it seems as if we’re completely different people as we grow‚ that isn’t the case. We are simply a more mature version of our old self shaped by our previous life experiences. Our theme is seen when the narrator‚ Anne Moody gets into high school and soon develops a sense of personal growth. In doing so‚ Anne was capable of living her life to the fullest‚ her perspective on everything changing. “I was sick of pretending‚ sick of selling my feelings for a dollar a day‚ and for this I could tell
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that many people did not agree with. Moody also include many contemporaries that would either make or break her equal right fight. “Coming of Age in Mississippi” gives the reader a first-hand look at the efforts that many people did to gain equal rights. “It no longer seemed important to prove anything. I had found something outside myself that gave meaning to my life.” After college‚ Moody realizes that she wanted to become an activist. She knows that she
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develop in people as they age and learn through life experiences. Depending on those life experiences‚ an individual can progress far in their understanding and acceptances or be held in stagnate and prejudiced position. In the story “A&P” by John Updike‚ the reader is taken through a mundane shopping experience seen through the eyes of a teenager boy named Sammy. By using specific symbols and this particular point of view‚ the reader is able to see Sammy developing life experience through observing
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ELLI- Coming of age in the Holocaust. Elli‚ her mother and all of the prisoners they meet all have to undergo numerous physical and psychological hardships when they are forced into the concentration camps. They are treated like cattle on their way to the slaughterhouse when they are taken from their houses to the ghetto‚ then to the synagogue‚ and eventually to Auschwitz‚ the death camp. The majority of suffering that was inflicted on Elli and her associates was physically inflicted‚ this
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Life of Pi starts with an old man in Pondicherry who tells the author‚ "I have a story that will make you believe in God" (Martel x). Every religion has a story of faith attached to it‚ Life of Pi tells a story of a young boy whose religious beliefs helped him survive the Pacific Ocean. Stories and religious convictions are additionally connected in Life of Pi since Pi states that both require confidence with respect to the audience or devotee. According to Pi the color orange symbolizes survival
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