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.
Nice start . . a little more reflection about the novel in each post would be interesting--what do you like, what do you think, etc. I also need to know how many pages you've read, so each post should identify the pages read and a gadget to show the total pages would be good, too.
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