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Teaching Yann Martel's Life of Pi from Multiple Critical Perspectives
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Yann Martel
The adage says that there are two sides to every story, but as most contemporary literature teachers can attest, there are many sides to every story-or at least many ways of looking at a story. Prestwick House's Multiple Perspectives Lesson Guides provide the high school teacher with everything she needs to guide her students through the study of the titles she teaches fro...more
52 pages
Published
2007
by Prestwick House, Inc
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I have trouble with this metaphor for religious activity in a modern age. I hate the way he speaks of God as a welcome cage and claims that animals are happier in their four stone walls than they would be out in the wild. It's disheartening in points and tedious in others, although I can certainly see why it is so well received. The first chapters are enthralling. We should all be so open to truth in our lives.
This was a most unusual book, a book of survival in most unusual circumstances. Not for everyone, but I liked it!
This book, while somewhat graphic, was fascinating. As a non-animal lover, I felt like the perspectives about animals, biology, and zoos were interesting and insightful. I also appreciated the first section of the book as the narrator talks about his conversion to different religions. However, I wish that there was not such a quick resolution of the book and I felt like the ending lacked a return or tie-into the religious discussions and insights that I thought would be prominent throughout. Sti...more
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Yann Martel is a Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi.
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Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of peripatetic Canadian parents. He grew up in Alaska, British Columbia, Costa Rica, France, Ontario and Mexico, and has continued travelling as an adult, spending time in Iran, Turkey and India. Martel refers to his travels as, “seeing the same play on a whole lot of
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