!01Board+Notes


 * March 22, 2012**

**Martel Passage Analysis of Chapter 3** What elements of the story are represented in the chapter?

**Theme**: - the promise of dreams;

>>motif of water points to the notion of - **Lit devices**: Foreshadowing >>symbolism of water (cleansing, freedom/captivity, gift/curse of water) >> irony of parents not swimming, but father's dream in Mamaji's visions

- **character** (Mamaji) - Pi's namesake (Piscine Molitor), Pi as 3.14 - ** setting ** (Paris, Pondicherry, S. Pacific)