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Life of pi by yann martel step 1 class discussion with students before your students read the novel life of pi, ask them to think about television shows and movies about survival, such as castaway, lost, or titanic. Absurd, macabre, unreliable and sad, deeply sensual in its evoking of smells and sights, the whole trip and the narrators insanely curious voice suggests joseph conrad and salman rushdie hallucinating together over the meaning of the old man and the sea and gullivers travels. Life of pi by yann martel, first edition abebooks passion for books. After hours of coercion, pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventionalbut is it more true. If asked which book was responsible for the highest number of road to damascus moments, most people would probably. Martel also ran a guerilla book club with stephen harper, sending the former prime minister of canada a book.
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