The unabridged audio book - Listen and read at the same time

http://youtu.be/I4NIJnKBWmw

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The Life of Pi Background

Background information and readings

Brief explanation of Kabbalah theory and tsimtsum plus some background about the name Richard Parker

THE HERO MONOMYTH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhk4N9A0oCA - What makes a hero?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqr8aAZX7q0 The Hero's Journey Campbell's monomyth


image thanks to
http://markwelch.com/whirligig/

Resources that might be useful

http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/vtE7pCTTQ2PB/Hero-Quest-Resources# This is a webjog that covers the Hero's Journey and links to ideas suggested by Joseph Campbell

and here is the first of 7 You tube videos of interviews with Joseph Campbell. You may want to listen to some or some parts. The link to the first will link you to the other 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBbt_bIDEg0


A different way of looking at it.






Same thing in modern language

E notes videos

Introduction
http://youtu.be/m4dX6_X1nmU

Characters
http://youtu.be/XOvxH8556O0

Themes
http://youtu.be/sSC_4RQwlc0

Top ten questions
http://youtu.be/eSJVeYnRC4I

Summary
http://youtu.be/LW9pTrFyhi8

The website from which these videos came

http://tewt.org/index.php/lessons-activities/commonly-taught-books/78-life-of-pi

RESEARCH

The task simplified

The actual instructions for the research based on the NZQA task below


What you are aiming for is set out in the Assessment Schedule below:


EXEMPLARS from NZQA website



Referencing guide for APA system by Waikato University



Referencing guide for MLA system Waikato University

How to generate a thesis statement for a test essay or a research project

The author writes about the way he began this book

http://www.powells.com/fromtheauthor/martel.html

LITERARY CRITICISM OF A KIND

Articles/literary comment on Life of Pi -

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n22/james-wood/credulity
http://jrdurden.wordpress.com/analysis-life-of-pi/
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/books/taming-the-tiger.html?smid
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/christandpopculture/2012/11/survival-significance-and-the-better-story-situating-the-religious-and-literary-imaginations-in-life-of-pi/
http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/12746/13689 Hollow at the Core - deconstructing Life of Pi

A discussion of religions and storytelling

A discussion on narrative perspective in the novel and ideas in the text

http://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=english_seminar_capstone
A major dissertation on the multiple perspectives from which one can analyse the novel
https://www.prestwickhouse.com/samples/302767.pdf

The LARB review of the book discussing how political theories can be seen to be a part of the 'message' in the novel
http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/allegories-in-an-emergency-yann-martels-life-of-pi#


Stewart Cole's article discusses the questions of belief in God, anthropomorphism and teh concept of 'storytelling'
http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/12747/13691

A masters thesis - clear and lucid to read - on the frame narrative, allegory
https://ujdigispace.uj.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10210/8284/Mill.pdf?sequence=1

MORE

A blog where various contributors add some comment about the novel - the address for one of these articles in particular appears below

http://lifeofpiscine.edublogs.org/

A blog address where the writer talks about the archetypes used in the novel

http://lifeofpiscine.edublogs.org/clash-archetypes-analyst/
This is a prezi on archetypes - note some of this is questionable - approach with an open mind
http://prezi.com/qwfpls7fzpep/life-of-pi-and-archetypes-prezi/

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PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS that are relevant to the novel

(watch this space)
Kabbalistic theory of Isaac Luria - Tsimtsum - link to an article on this

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2047206/jewish/Tsimtsum.htm

Another article The Seeds of Conflict - about Luria's theory
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2306809/jewish/Immanent-Transcendence.htm

ARCHETYPES a web quest and includes a list of what archetypes are

http://ww2.nps.k12.va.us/education/components/links/links.php?sectiondetailid=147976&&

An article discussing the philosophy of the novel but based on the film
http://www.practicalphilosophy.net/?page_id=1785

Read more at http://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/film/mind-behind-life-pi-0#hw6ye7WtRWZA30dV.99

Link to the introduction of a book about teaching philosophy through film by Mary Litch - some interesting ideas about philosophy in general - not specific to Life of Pi

http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Through-Film-Mary-Litch/dp/0415997445#reader_0415997445


A blogger's book on some of the same issues

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZaL4AAAAQBAJ&pg=PP4&dq=paul+t+kidd&hl=en&sa=X&ei=m8ZbUu7RJMeZ0AWr6ICwDQ&redir_esc=y#v=twopage&q&f=false
Paintings for Life of Pi

A video biography of Pi

http://youtu.be/XCbtwZWPfxc

FILM VERSION

Life of Pi film script link

http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Life-of-Pi.html

Life of Pi film You tube - how shot the animals

https://youtu.be/1sFsnrdOVjk

Explanation of the island according to Hindu mythology:

http://www.hinduwebsite.com/general/essays/pi.asp

Special effects and how achieved article

https://www.fxguide.com/featured/life-of-pi/

POWERPOINTS REFLECTING ON TECHNIQUES AND IDEAS