... the next section of the book will begin by narrating the disaster of Pi on his trip on the boat. The reason behind its spared life was revealed shortly. It froze my blood-and then brought a slight measure of relief. A head appeared beyond the end of the tarpaulin. It looked at me in a direct, frightened way. ducked under, appeared again, ducked under again, appeared once more, disappeared a last ... time. It was the bear-like, balding-looking head of a spotted hyena. Our zoo had a clan of six, two dominant females ... my family and my tragic circumstances. He pushed me to go on living....

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• Grade Level: High School

... to retreat "far away" and "forget" what he knows and can't have. Although the narrator longs for the music that Lawrence suggests the bird intones, the narration suggests, as does Lawrence, that the yearning for something outside himself is a present conflict of the text. The last stanza of the poem begins with, "Forlorn! The very word is like a bell / To toll me back from thee to my sole self!"(71 ... differently. On the one hand, the question seems to present a vast horizon of indeterminacy, ending on this statement and final question; however the text employs distinctly the tools to ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate