End of the Year reflection

Now that a whole semester has gone by, the only thing I can really say is that I read a few books in the spring of 2011. Maybe I will change habits and learn to like reading later in life, but for now I still dispise reading, and would rather not do it. When I read Mitch Album's "For One More Day", I was really into it and read the whole thing in less than 2 days. I can say I honestly enjoyed reading it, but it was a one and done thing almost for me. I don't know if it was that I got distracted too easily, or if I never made time for reading, but I know for sure that I didn't meet the quota for pages read. I am able to read for school, that's not to hard for me, but when I'm asked,"What type of book do you think you'd like to read?" I wouldn't know what I wanted to read.
I can say I didn't really like the reading and the blogging (especially the blogging aspect) of the class. Vocab was helpful, as well as SAT prep stuff, but the reading wasn't my favorite, by far.

Poem List

Stages of life: Birth, Youth, Marriage, Having a Kid, Growing Old, and Death

1. Birth: Babies [Alice Fulton]

2. Youth: Young Forever [Jay-Z, Mr. Hudson] {Video}

3. Marriage: Marriage [Lawrence Raab]

4. Having a Kid: A Poet to His Baby Son [James Weldon Johnson]

5. Growing Old: Growing Old [Matthiew Arnold]

6. Death: If See No End In Is [Frank Bidart]

life of pi, chapters 63-74 [239-264]

In these chapters Pi does an aboundance of things like trying to navigate (or atleast try and figures where he is with the stars), goes fishing with different sorts of lengths of lines, and hunting turtles. The most exciting event that was occured in these chapters was Pi trying to set territories with Richard Parker (The Tiger). He does thing like shaking the boat trying to get him sea sick, blowing his whistle as loud as he can, and jumping up and down trying to intimidate him. These things did work for a while, but never really showed him who was Number 1. with all of the turtle shells pi gathered, he'd run up to the tiger and try scaring him that way, but with one swipe the tiger would knock pi straight off the boat. Pi would try this 3 more times and have the same result. it wasn't until the 5th time, when he would blow his whistle, shake the boat, and then charge Richard Parker and show him who was boss. In Pi's words that was all it took to show him who was incharge. Now when the tiger aproches pi all he has to do is blow the whistle and the tiger retreats back into his territory all balled up and head curled.

Life of Pi... Again Chapers 59-63 [213-239]

These next few chapters are kinda boring, nothing really exciting happens. Pi does some fishing with leather shoe strings. Near the end of these chapters he catches a big 4 foot fish of some sort (dorado), but struggles to kill it being a long time vegitarian, but this being his only means of survival, he has to do it. but before this he had better luck with the school of flying fish that jump in the boat and hit him. But before that he does a couple other things like carves an oar and makes a mast for the boat, tries to make a shelter, and figures out a way to get fresh water by some way of evaporation. Oh and it has been a whole week since his boat first sunk. I guess why it was so hard for me to catch on to it was because it has been a LONG time since i quit reading this book, but i need to start reading and blogging again.

Pages Read

Pages read for English lit: 210
Pages for Etymology: Zero

Wow, I need to make more time for reading

Truth be told... I Hate Reading. I'm suprised I'm on track with my reading of Tales of Two Cities. That's a ton of reading for me as is. My free time doesn't involve reading. I like to learn things by hearing it, or by doing it, not by seeing it (in this case... reading). I can get entertained maybe for 10 minutes. Maybe it will be something i grow into. idk, for now it is prolly something i despise.

Pecock feathers

What makes this drawing so different and special is that it is written on pages ripped out of a Bible. It is a beautiful and colorful drawing, but there are a few people who would see it as disrespect to draw on the pages of a Bible, let alone rip pages out of a Bible. I'm one of those people who could possibly get upset about something like this, but I don't know the purpose the author to why he or she did it. Maybe there was a story behing why they did it, so I can't judge it.

Putting the "I" in Team

With the skills that this girl has she could do everything she hopes to do. What she's hoping is defiantly possible, she had sick skills, and the fact that she puts in enough work and effort practicing with the guys, that's crazy. She could defiantly make it to the Olympics or world cup! It goes along with believing that anything is possible if you put your mind to it.

For One More Day, By Mitch Albom: Page 1-198

I know this isn't the way you are supposed to do a blog, and I appologise. I picked up this book, and as soon as I picked it up, i literally WAS NOT able to put the book down. I spent 4 or 5 consecuative hours reading this book, which is very unusaul for me because I hate reading!
Maybe it's because I could relate so closely to what the main charecter in the story was experiancing, and how he felt. The whole book: a bad relationship with his mom, things turning from such a high point to a terribly low point, the hope of acceptance from others, the feeling that you have been put out of your family,.... and the wish that the relationship with your mother could be better.
"For One More Day" is about a guy who had to choose to be either a momma's boy or a daddy's boy, but not both. He chooses to be a daddy's boy, and after his parents split he shows no regard for his mother. His dad gets him to a high level in his life, and sets him up to be great, but then after that he takes off and never see's his son again. Chick feels like his is alone, and before he get the chance to run back to his mom, she dies of a massive stroke.
Chick also has problems with his own family, with his wife spliting with him, so he becomes a drunk. Embarrased of her father, Chick's only daughter doesn't invite her own dad to her wedding.
After experiancing this, he trys to take his own life, by drinking himself to death, getting in a terrible car accident, and jumping off of a water tower. He attempts all of these in all of the same night, and unsuccesful with each attempt. After he hits the ground after jumping off of the water tower, he looks up and sees his dead mother looking down at him.
He works up the strength to go to his old home and talks to his mother, trying to figure out how all of this is possible, considering that he burried his own mother. Later he realises that the reason he is able to see his mother again is because he is so close to death. So it's almost like he's in some sort of place between heaven and earth.
This section is probibly the sadest part in a book i've ever read. It really makes you believe in the eternal power of a mother's love, and that you can't take that love for granted.

Greatest realization I've ever found in a book.

One thing i'll never forget that comes from a passage in "for one more day" by Mitch Albom. It is at the part where he is talking about the love his mother gives him, compaired to his dad. It says:

"She loved me through the coming and going, at my worst and my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me."

"Her only flaw was she didn't make me work for it."

I totally agree with the THEORY he comes up with.

"Kids chase love that eludes them... they chase the ones who keep love tucked away, like papers in a breifcase. And you never give up trying to get in there."

Seriously, for me it was an eye opener. How true this theory was, especially for me. this was probibly the most interesting realization i've ever found in a book.

Chapter 54 and 55 [197-202]

After Pi fleed the boat in the last chapter, he sits and ponders on his raft, thinking of plans to get rid of the tiger. His first plan was to push the 450 lb tiger off the boat, like that would work. His second idea was to kill him with seven morphine surenges, even tho he knew he wouldn't be able to get close enough and he didn't know if the amount of morphine would be enough to kill an adult tiger. Plan three was to attack him with all availible weaponry, but the more he thought about it the more he decided he didn't want to piss it off. The fourth plan was to strangle the tiger with a rope, he was to scared to get close enough to even attempt. His next few Ideas were very hopeful but could never be possible. the last idea Pi had was to wage a war of attrition. He knew he could do that, wait it out until the tiger dies. he had plenty to eat but nothing to drink. so Pi would wait to get on board until the tiger had died of natural causes.
Pi is pretty smart to Plan these things out before he acts on them. I think it help him out a lot that he's not on the same boat as the tiger anymore and on a raft, so he's not acting on deperation, fear, or dispair.
The next chapter is when Pi sees the tiger peaking it's head over the edge of the boat looking as if to spy on Pi. Pi believes he is just being curious so he isn't as afraid of him any more but his mind keeps repeating 'plan nuber six, plan number six, plan number six'. but he's doesn't wasnt to get rid of the tiger anymore, now he see's it as he needs the tiger inorder to survive.

Going through Changes

Lately I really, feel like I’m rolling for like Philly,
I feel like I’m losing control of myself, I sincerely,
I apologize if all that I sound like, is I’m complaining,
But life keeps on complicating, an’ I’m debating,
On leaving this world, this evening, even my girls,
Can see I’m grievin’, I try and hide it,
But I can’t, why do I act like I’m all high and mighty,
When inside, I’m dying, I am finally realizing I need help.
I can’t do it by myself, too weak, 2 weeks I’ve been having ups and downs,
Going through peaks and valleys, dilly dallying,
Around with the idea, of ending the **** right here.
I’m hatin’ my reflection, I walk around the house tryin’ to fight mirrors,
I can’t stand what I look like, yeah, I look fat, but what do I care?
I give a ****, only thing I fear, is Hailie,
I’m afraid if I close my eyes I might see her,
****…

__________

A.) Complicating, Complaining, Grievin', Dilly-Dallying, Reflection, High-and-Mighty, Dying, Debating, Sincerely, What do I care

B.)
Elevation - Pretty low, he's a rap artist to he uses a lot of slang terms (Dilly-Dallying, Explicit Words)
Connotation - His mood is very down, and seems very depressed, (Grievin', Dying)
Sound - It is a song so I can say angry and depressed
Concreteness - Pretty concrete but is also metiphorical at times

C.) In the first verse of Eminem's song 'Going through Changes', he expresses his emotions/feelings and explain what he's going through, forcing you to wonder how he will deal with these experiances.

Chapters 51-53 [175-197]

This section starts off with Pi finally replenishing himself with water, then he realizes the situation he's in. he want's to flee the life boat, but knows that will bring certain death with the starved sharks.
instead of planning his next move he digs through the Survival Kit and takes inventory of what he has. The acounts for all of the food and all of the fresh water he has availible. he uses some equasion to see how long he will last and calculates that the water should last him 196 days while the food should last him 152 days. This makes him pretty happy and then he finds other materials like a buck knife, a rope, and a lot of life jackets.
After Pi takes his time to chill out and relax, he is rudly awakend by the hyenna who is having another spaz attack. The only differance about this spaz attack is that Richard Parker finaly gets fed up with it and attacks the hyenna. The hyenna doesn't even try to defend itself, just lets the Tiger take it's life.
After Pi witnesses this he doesn't give it a second thought. he makes a raft from the rope, oars, and many life jackets and goes out on the water to get away from the mad tiger. he attaches a rope from the life boat to the raft so the two don't drift away from one another.
I made the decision that Pi want's to live. maybe he's spoted a glimmer of hope and decides that he wants to survive. He has shown a lot of problem solving and a lot of determination to get away from the tiger too.

Chapters 49 and 50 [168-175]

Pi is shoked. The hyenna has killed every animal on the boat and now, Pi was the only one left to comfront the hyenna. pi is scared to DEATH of this... until he falls to the ground, hiding from the hyenna, that he sees Richard Parker is still on board. The 450 lb Bengal tiger was still on board. Now Pi is terrified, stuck on a boat between two extreem Preditors.
Compairing the two preditors to each other, Pi walks right past the hyenna, no longer being afraid of the hyenna, to get to the survial locker where he could get some water. when he crawled past the hyenna, it made a loud hiss and yelped at Pi. Pi said it wasn't for the lack of courage, but for the exhaustion and lack of no weapon that he doesn't go after the hyenna.
This is a powerful part of the book because Pi is pretty much looking Death in the face and saying he's not afraid of it. That takes a lot of courage to do that. but I'm not sure... maybe this is his way of giving up.

2.23 Diction Exercise

The Catcher in the Rye

A.) Lousy, Goddam, Touchy as hell, Run-Down, Crumbly, Terrific, Madman, Occupied, Crap, Bores

B.)
Level of diction - between medium and low
Elevation - Middle
Connotation - Low
Sound - High

Chapters 46 - 48 [149-166]

More and more sharks start to appear around the life boat, and Pi has slim hopes for survival. The sharks swim swiftly through the water straight at the life boat then dive to prevent hitting it.  Pi watches this in half amusement, but also half scared to death by the activity.  This is when the hyena becomes active again.  It would pounse right on the dying zebra and rip folds of it's stomach piece after piece. The zebra does not die instantly tho. I though it was devistating that an animal wont die even though it's in that much pain, and like in this zebra's case, being eating alive, from the inside out.
The hyenna almost seems to be killing with rage because after its attack on the zebra, it goes after Orange Juice. Orange Juice is able to defend itself once by giving the hyenna a hard blow to the head. He wasn't able to do it again tho. The second attack made by the hyenna was right on the mark. drove it's tight jaws right on the orangutan's neck and ripped it's head straight off.

Chapter 44 and 45 [141-149]

This is Pi's first whole day on the boat and night is approching again. Pi is afraid that the hyenna might bocome active again, and stir up all the other animals on the boat. As the night slowly arives Pi's fears become true and the hyenna starts to come alive once again. It starts the night by doing laps as it did earlier that day but as pi's vision starts to decrease on the new moon night, more activities start up. Rather than just the hyenna barking there is also the zebra crying at the hyenna, almost in a battle for life or death.
Pi had to wait until the next morning to figure out what was going on. As soon as the sun starts to come up and light appears he can see that the hyenna was chewing on something. it wasn't until early morning and where there was a lot of sun that he could see what really happened. the hyenna tore off the injured zebra's back leg, and was chewing on it's hide. Pi felt terrible for the poor zebra but wasn't about to do anything about it. he wonders where Orange Juice went off to so he looks around from his spot where he was tring to find her. The hyenna doesn't like it that Pi had stood up tho so he tenses up and barks at Pi, so Pi imediatly falls to the ground not even to look at the hyenna again in fear. as he's laying there he sees Orange Juice and she comes over to him.
Pi thinks she did this because she missed her two babies and Pi was the closest things she had to them. I feel so bad for all of the prey animals on the boat in these two chapters. The poor zebra could do nothing what so ever to defend it's self. Pi and Orange Juice seem pretty defenseless as well so it only leads you to believe that most of these animals are going to die to the over raged, sea sick hyenna.

Chapter 43 [141-147]

Pi is trying to keep himself cheerful. He tells himself that there are rescue crews from all over that are responding to his sunken ship. while he is still looking about the horizon he sees Orange Juice sitting on a bundle of bananas. Orange Juice was the pride and soul of the zoo back home. she was a loving and caring adult female Orangutan. She sees the boat and swims out to it. there were many black spiders on and in her fur, and you can see all of them skamper out on the pacific water but then they all drown since there is nothing to grab onto that is close enough. As the life boat passes the island of bananas Pi reaches out an grabs the net holding all of them together, letting all the bananas go. He realises what a terrible mistake he made letting all that food go to waist.
In this chapter the Hyenna decides to go crazy inside the life boat. The hyenna get up sometime in the morning and starts 'yipping' and barking. Pi says he would do this for alot of the morning, then it would start to go crazy and run laps around the life boat. It had it's own 25 foot track on the boat and would run in laps and bark loudly stopping on the stern only to catch it's breath. It would do this all day until sunset then things got tense again.

Chapters 41 and 42 [134-141]

Pi cant take dangling from the boat and decides to get in. He considers that the tiger has him beat in all of his senses. But with the elements of the storm going on he could try sneaking in the boat. The rain would affect his sense of smell, the wind would affect his hearing, and the night would affect his vision. it took all of his strength to clim into the boat, but once he got inside he relised there was no tiger. Instead there was a hyenna. there was also a zebra that jumped into the boat as the ship was sinking. The zebra was in critical condition with his right rear leg broken, bone showing through skin. The two animals were so scared that they didn't even notice each other.
It took me along time to figure out that this life boat is huge. To fit a full grown bengal tiger in it, a hyenna, and a zebra, as well as a boy? for a long time I was imagining something the size of a pontoon. but no, this was a BIG life boat!

Chapter 37 - 40 (beginning of Part 2) [121-134]

The start of chapter 37 the ship hits something and is starting to sink. Pi is awakend by the noise of the ship scraping against something, but doesn't bother waking his brother or the rest of his family bcs it is so early in the morning. Instead he decides to go on his own little adventure to figure out what was going on w/ the ship. He gets on to the top of the deck and see's that things aren't going well. There is a lot of cammotion going on.
He notices that the ship is starting to tilt to the bow, and realizes that it is sinking. He desperatly wants to go and wake his family and get them off to safety. But when he is running across the deck a sailor graps him and throws him into a life boat.
The next chapter has him regaining conciesness, in the life boat with a injured zebra. He remembers that he never got to warn his family. Then he yells at a Richard Parker character and is trying to save him from drowning. He ends up getting his attention by trowing a floatation ring at him. This gives him enough determination to swim to the boat. Just as Richard Parker started to climb on boad, Pi had realized what he did and threw an oar at Richard Parked and was telling him not to get into the boat, and to drown. That is when you as the reader figure out that Richard Parker is a 450 lbs, 3 yr old adult Bengale.
Pi jumps straight out of the boat onto the oar he threw at richard parker. He holds on to that for awhile so he doesn't drown and watches the ship he was on sink.  He holds onto the oar until he notices sharks are starting to come so he swims back to the life boat and pulls himself highenough to be out of the water but not in the boat bcs the tiger is in there still.
This is an intense part of the book, and i feel really bad for the kid. He wants to give up and drown so he doesn't have to get eaten. I'd fold up so bad if i was in his situation.

Chapter 34 through 37 [111-121]

These last three chapters wrap up Part 1 of the book. The family has gathered everything and is getting ready to travel to Canada. They load everything on the ship and walk through their home country of India one last time before they leave. Pi, as well as the whole rest of his family, are very excited to leave and go somewhere new, but at the same time they spent all of their life in India, and put it behind them. So after a day of saying goodby they board the ship and cruise for North America.
Response: I am excited to see what happens to Pi and his family, how they react to the differant places. and how all the animals act all the was across the Indian and Pacific Ocean.

Chapter 29 through 32 [98-111]

At the beginning of the chapter Pi is talking about why people move, he brings this topic up all most out of the blue. But as the chapter progresses, you figure out why he brought up this topic. he and his family decided to sell the zoo they currently owned in India, and move it to Toranto. Pi says people move on for reasons like wear and tear of anxiety, and "because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happyness and prosperity are possible only somewhere else".
At the end of chapter 29 Pi figures out that his family will be moving to Canada. So in chapter 31 Pi finally shows one of his old friends the zoo. he realized that this will be one of the last tours that he gives, so he trys to do a great job and make sure he shows the whole zoo off.
Then in chapter 32 he almost gets off topic from the moving to Canada. He talks about zoomorphism, where  an animal takes a human being, or any other animal to be one of their own. He gets to this point because he was showing the lion cubs, and there was a dog in the same cage as the cubs. The visitors thought the dog was going to be a meal for the little lions. It was the total opposite of what the people were thinking. The dog was acting as a mother to the baby lions, and raising them. Pi said it was cheeper to get these lions to accept the dog as a mom and then when they reach a certian age they move the lions in the cage with other lions.

Chapter 28 [96-98]

Pi's father finaly decided to get him the prayer rug after Pi relentlessly wouldn't give up asking. Pi would take it with him no matter where he went and used it all the time. I don't know whether he was trying to show it off or if he was really into his recent conversion. It took a long time for Pi's parents to get used to the sight of him sitting on his prayer rug in the backyard of their yard. Even during the rainy monsoon season he would go out side on his prayer rug and just sit there during the weather.
Responce: I would absolutely love to sit outside in a warm monsoon rain! As long as there was no thunder or lightning i think it would be so relaxing. It would almost make me feel closer to God in a way too, in a way i don't think i could explain right enough to make sence. it would be very relaxing tho.

chapter 25, 26, 27 [89-96]

Pi is finally forcing it upon himself to choose which religion he wants to really convert to, even tho he really doesn't want to. He still prefers to do all three at the same time. He askes his Father first which religion he should choose. His father, however, is very unreligious, but rather is a 'business man'. A business man has no time to have a religion, he does everything himself and has to be blessed with what he can provide for himself and family. So his father said he'd be no help, and to go ask his mother. When Pi asks his mom tho, she just has the intentions of telling him that he cannot do all three at the same time, even though he already knew this. Pi always though his mom was a christian, so he figured his mom would tell him he had to be one too. She was unreligios just like his father though. He realises that he has to make this decision on his own and make a choice to only have one. After all the consideration he takes, he finally chooses to be a christian. He askes his father to get him a prayer rug for him to pray on that way he doesn't get his pants dirty everytime he want to pray. He also feels left out because he goes to a christian school but has not been baptized.
Later that night he hears his father and mother talking about how strange it was for their child to go out and find three religions and try to convert to all three. They joke around about it for most of the night, and Pi feels pretty down about it.

Responce: I feel pretty bad for Pi. He did have a VERY crazy veiw on religions and how he was going to blend the three together. But his intentions were good. he was doing it to be a better person, and thats all he really wanted to do. I think thats good that he is trying to figure stuff out on his own, but he probibly should've got a little bit of help on this subject.

Opportunity Knocks - Nick Javas

Chapter 20 through 24 [77-88]

These chapters are really interesting. Pi is still practicing all three religions; Christianity, Hinduism, and Islamic. The funny part is that leaders of each religions leader comes down to visit Pi, all at the same time on a saturday evening. When the three leaders arive they are all very tence and looking at each other like 'what are you doing here?' Each leader says he knows Pi and how he has visited their place of worship every day. Then they catch on what Pi was doing, so they all fight trying to explain to Pi how there religion is the best and how they worship the "real" God. They try to make Pi make up his mind, but Pi really wants to be able to be able to worship all three, which isn't possible. By the end of the chapter, Pi's father, who is unreligios, tells each leader that they are aloud to believe what they want, but Pi would have to make up his mind up on his own. After each leader leave Pi's father tells Pi he has to make a decision about what religion he is going to choose. then in the morning his father makes fun of him by saying "At the rate that your going, if you go to the temple on Thursday, the mosque on Friday, synagog on Saturday, and Church on Sunday, you'll only need to convert to three more religions to be on holiday for the rest of your life!" I thought that was funny, but the best part was when he sees him later he asks Pi, " have you found time yet to cut the end of your pecker of and become a Jew?" HAHA, poor kid, but it's hilarious.

chapter 18 and 19 [73-77]

These next two chapters are about Pi being interested in Hinduism and Islam. He visits these two temples for three days each. He applies major aspects of each religion to his life, and is praying to all three gods. I'd name these chapters a pretty origional name. Chapter 18 would be called "Hinduism", and chapter 19 would be called "Islam".

Chapter 17 [63-73]

There are no names for these chapters, but if i could name this on i would probibly call it "My Way of Understanding and Being a Christian". This is by far one of the longest chapters in the book, at least at this point it is. The chapter starts with Pi telling the visitors about the 3 mountians that surround the city. At the top of each mountian there was a place of worship but each mountain had a different religion for the place of worship. The first mountain was a church, and he had never been in it before so this would be the first church he visits. Pi climbs the mountain and enters the church.
Everything is new to him so when he see's a picture of Christ hanging on the cross he is puzzled and has no idea what to think. He sees Christ hanging on the cross as a person being sacrifised to an angry God. He saw marry gazing into the sky and had no idea what was wrong with the lady, and the fat babies with wings made the picture made the picture look symbolic and stupid. The more he looked at it and thought he was trying to figure out where or who was God in that picture.
The preist in the church saw Pi with a confused look on his face so he talked to him and tried to explain to him who he was and what the meaning of the picture was. it took Pi three days to figure out how all of this could be possible and make sence. then on the last day he made the choice to become a christian.

Life of Pi, blog #2 [31-63]

Since chapter 7, Pi has told us more and more about how he and his family run the zoo. He goes into deep detail how visitors almost toture the animals with the things they feed them. Some of the worst are people putting needles, safety pins, broken glass, shards of metal in things like apples, and other fruit. i thought this was terrible that people would do that bad of a thing to animals! It's also hard for me to remember that zoos in this time period were pretty much iron bars and a cage, or just a deep pit. Knowing this I can see how visitors to the zoo can do such a thing.
Another thing Pi explains is how you can tell what the animals are thinking just by how they are acting. he says that animals, especially the big animals, are not content in the zoo unless the cages are put together almost perfect. the animals will pace back and forth in there cages to try to get across that there is too much sand, or there is too much sun light in their cage, or if it is to shady and cool, or other things of the sort. He gave the example that content animals will stay by telling a story about a panther that jumped out of a pit that wasn't deep enough because it wasn't treated well. these panthers can jump up vertically 16 feet in the air, but the pit at his zoo was only 14 feet deep. He says that these panthers haven't tried to escape because they are happy with the enviornment.
Haha, the last past of these chapters is his father explaining how every animal in the zoo can be potentially dangerous. From lions mauling a person, elephants smashing someone, a deer impailing a person, hippos goreing, hyenna's clamping their powerful jaws on a neck, a bird's shap beak slashing somebody, and a bengal tiger eating an entire person! I thought all his examples were a bit humorous!

Life of Pi : In the Beginning pages [1-31]

The book I am currently reading is Life of Pi. The first 3 chapters were very boring giving unnessicary information about the main character. After chapter 3, it was almost like the story started giving in depth stories about what the main character does in the story.
The plot of these first few chapters was about the main characters life, and what he does. His family is in charge of a large zoo in India. In this chapter he talks about how a zoo animals life isn't all that bad. The coolest way he defends himself against critics that say these animals diserve to be free is by telling them, "Look, if someone barged into your house and said 'GO! Go on now, your free'. Rather than runing out of your house celebrating with joy, you would probibly look at this intruder like 'Get out of my house. Im calling the cops!"
I thought it was a funny way to put it, but then as he describes the zoo life and how these animals actually have it better than most animals in the wild. Compaired to the animals in the wild, they do not have as much space, but they don't have to contend for space, they don't have to go on day after day searching for food, and don't have to worry about paracites and diseases that could kill them.
Pi is really conected to these animals and lists off and describles multiple, big and small, animals that are at his zoo. He does a great job of painting a mental picture of this perfect zoo in your head.