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.

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