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.
Monday, January 31, 2011
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
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".
Sunday, January 23, 2011
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.
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.
Monday, January 17, 2011
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!
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!
Friday, January 14, 2011
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.
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.
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