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The narrator, a teenage boy called Pi, is in a large lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean. There are no people with him in the lifeboat but there are several animals , including an orang-utan, a zebra and a hyena.  \n1 It was the hyena that worried me. I had not forgotten Father’s words. Hyenas attack in packs whatever animal can be run down. They go for zebras, gnus and water buffaloes, and not only the old or the infirm in a herd but full-grown members too. They are hardy attackers, rising up from buttings and kickings immediately,  \n5 never giving up for simple lack of will. And they are clever; anything that can be  \n6 distracted from its mother is good.  \nI could hear the hyena whining. I clung to the hope that a zebra, a familiar prey, and an orang-utan, an unfamiliar one, would distract it from thoughts of me. I kept one eye on the horizon, one eye on the other end of the lifeboat.  \n10 I am not one to hold a prejudice against any animal, but it is a plain fact that the spotted hyena is not well served by its appearance. It is ugly beyond redemption. Its shaggy, coarse coat is a bungled mix of colours, with the spots having none of the classy ostentation of a leopard’s, they look rather like the symptoms of a skin disease. The head is broad and too massive, with a high forehead, like that of a  \n15 bear, but suffering from a receding hairline, and with ears that look ridiculously mouse-like, large and round, when they haven’t been torn off in battle. The mouth is forever open and panting. The nostrils are too big. The tail is scraggly and unwagging. All the parts put together look doglike, but like no dog anyone would  \n19 want as a pet.  \n20 I was hoping the hyena would stay under the tarpaulin. I was disappointed. Nearly immediately it leapt over the zebra and onto the stern bench. There it turned on itself a few times, whimpering and hesitating. I wondered what it was going to do next. The answer came quickly: it brought its head low and ran around the zebra ina circle, transforming the stern bench, the side benches and the cross bench just  \n25 beyond the tarpaulin into a twenty-five-foot indoor track. It did one lap-two-threefour-five-and onwards, non-stop, till I lost count. And the whole time, lap after lap, it went yip yip yip yip yip in a high-pitched way.  \nMy reaction, once again, was very slow. I was seized by fear and could only watch. The beast was going at a good clip, and it was no small animal. The beating of its  \n30 legs against the benches made the whole boat shake, and its claws were loudly clicking on their surface. Each time it came from the stern I tensed. It was hairraising enough to see the thing racing my way; worse still was the fear that it would keep going straight.  \nAfter a number of laps it stopped short at the stern bench and crouched, directing  \n35 its gaze downwards, to the space below the tarpaulin. It lifted its eyes and rested them upon me. The look was nearly the typical look of a hyena – blank and frank, jaw hanging open, big ears sticking up rigidly, eyes bright and black. I prepared for my end. For nothing. It started running in circles again.  \nWhen an animal decides to do something, it can do it for a very long time. All  \n40 morning the hyena ran in circles going yip yip yip yip yip. Every time the hyena paused at the stern bench, my heart jumped. And as much as I wanted to direct my attention to the horizon, to where my salvation lay, it kept straying back to this maniacal beast.  \nThings ended in typical hyena fashion. It stopped at the stern and started  \n45 producing deep groans interrupted by fits of heavy panting. I pushed myself awa","cbCaiic3WIjO6ZSB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiic3WIjO6ZSB","pdf",159754,"English","# Source A\n## Extract setting and narrator\n## Hyena behaviour and Pi’s fear\n## Description of the hyena\n## The hyena’s laps and Pi’s reaction\n## Ending of the extract","[{\"question\":\"Who is the narrator in Source A and where is he?\",\"answer\":\"The narrator is Pi, a teenage boy. 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