Biology

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== 1) Pg. 21-22 "Only a mailiar territory will allow them to fulfill the two relentless impreatives of the wild: avoidance of enemies and the getting of food and water. A biologicall sound zoo encolosure - whether cage, pit, mooted island, corral, terrarium, aviary or aquarium - is just another territory".(2) == ==- Food, water and shelter are a biological need which is mentioned in this quote in great detail. It also talks about territory which is referring to nature's natural instinct of survival. Pi is describing that a zoo is the same exact as the wild and that its just another territory and as animal's instincts and drive to survive are not changed by their envirement they adapt to survive. (2) ==


==2) Pg. 39 "The redoubtable the species // Animalus anthropomorphicus // the animal as seen through human eyes. We've all met one perhaps owned one it is an animal that its "cute", "friendly", "loving", "devoted", "merry", "understanding". (2) == == -Also on pg 39 there is a quote that Pi says: "I learned the lesson that an animal is an animal essentially and practically removed from us." PI is trying to tell us that man is always in love with cute animals when actually they are very dangerous and that we shouldn’t underestimate them. He quotes “They are pendants of those "vicious", "blood - thirsty”, “depraved" animals. (2) ==

==3) Pg.25 “He had a most peculiar appearance. The top of his head was bald and pointy, yet he had the most impressive jowls I have ever seen, and his narrow shoulders gave way to a massive stomach that looked like the base of a mountain, except that the mountain stood in thin air, for it stopped abruptly and disappeared horizontally into his pants.” == == -This is representing human structure, force and nature. It describes what he looks like but does it in a very concrete way and with lots of imagery. This makes him seem like a strong force pulled out of nature because of all the ways he is described, and shows all the ways that he has persevered throughout his life and how he is still standing like a mountain. Also this is associated with survival of the fittest a biological strength that he holds. (2) ==


==4) Pg. 121 “Do you here this whistle? TREEEEEE! TREEEEEE! TREEEEEE! You heard Right. Swim, swim! You’re a strong swimmer. Its not a hundred feet.” == == -The first important thing about this quote is when you think about a whistle sound you usually think it would sound like “tweet” but Martel uses the words Treeee, which could be connected to a plant something that is superior to the tiger because it gives the tiger life and shelter. This shows how Pi is showing is power over the tiger. Also as Pi is talking to the tiger he sounds like he is training him like the lion tamer showing the tiger he is the alpha “animal” there. ==

5) Pg. 222 “You must stroll through the Pacific at a walking pace, so to speak, to see the wealth and abundance that it holds.”
==-This quote is a great representation of Natures power of the animal kingdom. This quote specifically describes the abundance of just the Pacific Ocean but it’s only a part of the world and without the abundance of nature the animal kingdom our human race and other living creatures would have died off. Nature’s power to control life is so much more powerful than we expect. ==

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==<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">pg. 32 "'Gregor Mendel,' recalling the father of genetics, and when it was time to show its mettle, 'Charles Darwin', the father of natural selection." (1) == ==<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">  [] [] <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This talks about the influence on Pi of different ideas of thought and science that shape the way that he thinks, allowing him to keep his mind open. Both Mendel and Darwin contributed to Pi's beliefs about biology and how he views the world and nature. (1) == ==<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">pg. 3 "My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour--calm, quiet and intraspective--did something to soothe my shattered self." (1) This shows that Biology helps Pi relate to animals and helps him discover more about him and further discover himself. It also shows that he has a desire for Biology as he wrote his thesis based on anatomy. (1) == ==<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">"Although human subtlety makes a variety of inventions by different means to the same end, it will never devise an <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 64%;">invention more beautiful, more simple, or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. "-Leonardo DaVinci (1) ==

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==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">"The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark. The sea lay quietly, bathed in a shy, light-footed light, a dancing play of black and silver that extended without limits all about me... For the first time I noticed- as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next- that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting." (pg. 177) (1) ==

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==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">" The smell of spent hand-flare shells, and prayers at dawn, and the killing of turtles, and the biology of algae, for example. And many more. But I don't if I can put them in order for you. My memories come in a jumble." (pg. 92) (1) ==

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==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">" I drank four cans, two litres of that most exquisite of nectars, before I stopped. You might think such a rapid intake of water after prolonged thirst might upset my system. Nonsense! I never felt better in my life. Why, feel my brow! My forehead was wet with fresh, clean, refreshing perspiration. Everything in me, right down to the pores of my skin, was expressing joy." (pg. 142) (1) ==

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==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">Train "When I look to the sky" When it rains it pours and opens doors that flood the floors we thought would always keep us safe and dry And in the midst of sailing ships we sink our lips into the ones we love That have to say goodbye And as I float along this ocean I can feel you like a notion that won’t seem to let me go Cause when I look to the sky something tells me you’re here with me And you make everything alright And when I feel like I’m lost something tells me you’re here with me And I can always find my way when you are here And every word I didn’t say that caught up in some busy day And every dance on the kitchen floor we didn’t have before Every sunset that we’ll miss I’ll wrap them all up in a kiss Pick you up in all of this when I sail away While I float upon this ocean I can feel you like a notion that I hope will never leave Cause when I look to the sky something tells me you’re here with me And you make everything alright When I feel like I’m lost something tells me you’re here with me And I can always find my way Whether I'm up or down or in or out or just plain overhead Instead it just feels like it is impossible to fly But with you I can spread my wings to see me over everything that life may send me when I am hoping it won’t pass me by When I feel like there is no one that will ever know me there you are to show me When I look to the sky something tells me you’re here with me You make everything alright And when I feel like I’m lost something tells me you’re here with me And I can always find my way when you are here When I look to the sky something tells me you’re here with me You make everything alright And when I feel like I’m lost something tells me you’re here with me And I can always find my way when you are here (song) (1) ==

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==<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 88%;"> **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Times New Roman',helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 88%;">**There is another sky by Emily Dickinson** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">//There is another sky, Ever serene and fair,//  **==

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==<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum: Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come! (1) // ==