Life of Pi - Insight text guide
Life of Pi - Insight text guide
Insight Text Guides take students into the deeper layers of meaning in a range of popular novels, plays, films, short-story collections and nonfiction texts. They are designed to develop detailed knowledge, in-depth understanding and genuine insight into each text.
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DESCRIPTION
DESCRIPTION
Insight Text Guides – Life of Pi is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive guide to the film directed by Ang Lee contains detailed character and scene analysis and explores language, genre, ideas and themes. Essay questions and sample answers help to prepare students for creating written responses to the text.
BOOK DETAILS
BOOK DETAILS
FEATURES:
An overview of the text for quick reference, including notes on the author’s life and work, a plot synopsis, a character map and brief character summaries
Discussion of the historical, cultural and social contexts relevant to the text
Close analysis of each chapter/scene/story, with chapter questions
Detailed analysis of characters, themes and ideas
Discussion of different responses to and interpretations of the text
Guidelines on successful essay writing
Essay topics, a sample analysis of a topic and a sample essay on the text.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
ISBN 9781925134124
About the writer:
Dominic Lennard, BA (Hons), PhD, lectures at the University of Tasmania, and has published widely on film. He is the author of Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film.
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