1. 1012哥和姐就是愛嗑書(一) 地點:元智圖書館研討室 時間:2013/04/09 書籍:Life of Pi 指導老師:楊薇雲老師
主講者: 于立杰
參與人員:
趙思婷 簡偵雅
江庭瑄 陳雅彗
蔣佳伶 曾宇襄

2. Introduction of the writer Reading p.1~58

3. Writer
Yann Martel
born June 25, 1963
50 years old

4. Yann Martel is a Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi. Although his first language is French, Yann Martel writes in English: “English is the language in which I best express the subtlety(細微的差別) of life. But I must say that French is the language closest to my heart. And for this same reason, English gives me a sufficient distance to write."

5. Yann Martel Born in Spain Speak French as his mother language
Write Life of Pi in English
His father was a diplomat
He was raised in Costa Rica, France, Mexico, and Canada.

6. Career
In 2001, he published the novel Life of Pi, his fourth book, which was awarded the Man Booker Prize in Life of Pi let him becomes the well-known writer in the world and even been putting on the big screen.

7. Published works Seven Stories (1993)
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (1993)
Self (1996)
Life of Pi (2001)
We Ate the Children Last (2004)
Beatrice and Virgil (2010)
101 Letters to a Prime Minister: The Complete Letters to Stephen Harper (2012)

8. Part One Toronto and Pondicherry

9. Chapter 1 Uses a flashback
Talks about the main character’s university life
University of Toronto
Double-major: religious studies and zoology

10. Memento mori painting (p.6)
What does it means?

11. Chapter 2 and 3 Pi’s real name was named after a swimming pool
Mamaji, the person who teach Pi to swim.

12. Chapter 4 About Pi’s father’s zoo
There are many animals we don’t know in the novel
Gnu牛羚
Aardvark土豚

13. Chapter 5 Piscine Molitor Patel Friends always call him “pissing”
He changes his nickname to Pi and introduces to his classmates and teachers