Life of Pi

In this chapter the author then explains how Pi became a Muslim at age fifteen. It began when Pi met a Muslim baker and mystic, a second Mr. Satish Kumar, who, in the middle of a conversation with Pi, excused himself to pray. Pi watched the routine and returned later to ask the baker about his religion; the baker explained that Islam is about the Beloved. Pi began to pray with Mr. Kumar and to visit a local mosque.

 I went through a site that gives the analysis for this chapter and it says,

“From the animalistic rites and rituals of the earlier zoo section of the novel, the novel has transitioned into a section about religious rites and rituals. In these chapters we witness, through Pi’s eyes, many examples of pious routine, from Christian church-going to Muslim prayer and chanting. We also see the objects that lend comfort to the faithful on a daily basis: paintings of religious figures, like Christ on the cross or of Lord Ganesha, and devotional articles such as sticks of incense and a copper spoon. A central message of the book is becoming clearer and clearer: religion is a method humans have developed of making their lives more pleasurable, more meaningful, and more understandable.”

Life of Pi chap 11

This chapter describes about Pi’s holiday when he was fourteen.Pi describes how, one day on holiday, when he was fourteen, he came across a church and, although he had never been in one before, stepped across the threshold. Inside, Father Martin told him the story of Christ on the cross, which Pi found very strange. When he asked to hear another story, Father Martin responded that Christianity has only one story, and the crux of it is love. Soon after, Pi decided to become a Christian; Father Martin told him he already was.

This chapter also tell us about  the story of a female black leopard that escaped from the Zurich Zoo during the winter.Apparently, she and the male she was sharing her habitat with were not getting along. She escaped one night, much to the alarm of the residents of the city. Search parties and dogs tried to find her, but to no avail.

I really liked this chapter because now I am finding it very intresting and I am very much eager to know what’s going to happend in the next chapter.

Life of pi chap 10

This chapter sounds boring intially but in the end eventually you will like it. This chapter reasserts his voice and describes the Patel house in Canada, which is full of various religious iconography. He sees Hindu, Christian, and Islamic paintings, statues, devotional articles, photographs, clothes, and books. Pi keeps the Bible on his nightstand.

Pi says he was born into Hinduism, becoming involved in its rites and rituals as an infant. He describes his constant hunger for Prasad, a Hindu offering to God, and the way his hands automatically move into prayer position. He discusses the Hindu philosophy of life, which he embraces: “That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing.” Pi states that he has always been and will always be a Hindu.

Life of pi chap9

I think now the real and intresting story is begun because for the previous chapters i really used to get bored reading the same thing about their past, his studies and about his name,but now i think the story is cathing the real shape.

Pi discusses territoriality at greater length, explaining that animals are fiercely defensive of their particular area. They also respect the territory of other creatures, which is why lion tamers enter the cage first, establishing their dominance before the lions are brought in. Pi shifts into an explanation of why socially inferior animals omega animals—tend to be the most obedient, loyal, and faithful to their masters. They have the most to gain from a good relationship with an alpha creature.

This chapter also explains  another aspect of being a zookeeper is getting the animals used to having humans nearby. Pi believes that it is an art to be able to reduce the animals’ flight distance or the minimum distance they need from a human before they flee. The flight distance varies from animal to animal.

Life of pi chap 7&8

In this chapter Pi introduces one of his favorite teachers from his youth, Mr. Satish Kumar. Mr.Kumar was a communist and the first atheist (nonbeliver) Pi had ever met.He is described as looking quite peculiar with a balding head and a large, round belly. In fact, Pi says, atheists are simply people of a different faith, with strong beliefs. It is agnostics, full of doubt and uncertainty and devoid of faith, whom Pi cannot stomach.Mr. Kumar visited the zoo often and Pi recalls the first time his saw Mr. Kumar at the zoo.

Pi describes in vivid detail the day his father fed a live goat to a caged tiger to teach Pi and his brother, Ravi, about the danger posed by wild animals. Piscine explains flight distance—the minimum distance at which an animal will tolerate a potential predator or enemy. Getting animals used to the presence of humans, he continues, is the key to the smooth running of a zoo and may be accomplished by creating a good enclosure, providing food and water, and knowing each animal well. Taken care of in this way, zoo animals rarely if ever run back to the wild. On the exceptional occasions when they do, it is usually because someone or something has invaded their territory and frightened them away.

Pi’s father had a sign near the entrance of the zoo that read, “Do you know which is the most dangerous animal in the zoo?” Next to the sign was a curtain with a mirror behind it. Zookeepers consider man the most dangerous threat to the zoo. The danger is manifest in man’s cruelty toward the animals.

Life of Pi chap 5&6

The chapter 5 & 6 of this book were very short,though it was short but i found it very hard to understand.The chapter 5 of this book impress me by reading pi’s thought the way he think. The chapter 5 says that the zoo occupies an important place in Pi’s memory. Indeed, growing up in a zoo shaped his belief system, taught him about animal nature, and imbued in him many significant lessons about the meaning of freedom.

The paragraph below was very hard for me to understand but some sentences in this paragraph really impressed me a lot.

Pi establishes early on the orderliness of the zoo and the comforting sense of regularity it gives him. Animals prefer the consistency of zoo life just as humans accustom themselves to the rituals and abundance of modern society, their own sort of zoo. Zoo animals rarely run away, even if given the opportunity, and they enjoy the abundant water and food. In the wild, by contrast, life is a constant battle for survival, a race against the odds and other creatures. Death is a constant presence and possibility. All of us living in modern society are essentially zoo creatures, defanged and protected from the wilderness waiting for us beyond the enclosure walls, walls from which Pi will soon be freed.

The chapter 6 of this book describes the teasing Pi received as a child because of his full name, Piscine, which the other school children turned into Pissing, and how he trained his classmates and teachers to call him Pi by writing it on the chalkboard of each of his classrooms. One day at school, he leaps up during roll call and writes his full name on the blackboard; then he underlines his preferred nickname, Pi, and speaks it aloud. He carries out this act in each classroom, during every roll call, to the point where his fellow students start to follow along. For humans as well as animals, repetition proves to be a very effective teacher.  

Life of Pi chap 4

 In Chapter 4, the narrator introduces the Pondicherry Zoo. Pondicherry is the territory in  India  where Piscine grew up. Once Pondicherry became a territory of India in 1954, the Pondicherry Botanical Gardens became a zoo founded by Piscine’s father, Mr. Santosh Patel.Here author discusses the ritualistic habits of zoo creatures and explains that pi grew up thinking the zoo was paradise.Pi remembers the alarm-clock precision of the roaring lions and the howler monkeys, the songs that are birds’ daily rites, the hours of day at which various animals could be counted on to entertain him. He defends zoos against those who would rather the animals were kept in the wild.He argues that wild creatures are at the mercy of nature, while zoo creatures live a life of luxury and constancy. Pi tells us that the Pondicherry Zoo is now shut down and that many people now hold both zoos and religions in disrepute.

This chapter was intresting since this chapter told us about the Zoo and pi’s thought about that Zoo.Till now the story is going very slow but I am reading it just because i want to know what hapend in the end and why is he saying that after this people will start beliving in god

Life of Pi Chapter 2&3

Hi,everybody

                         I know its too late for the 2nd chapter, but its ok. As I told you before  that me and my group we started with a novel called Life of Pi, as if now with the 1st chapter we really got bored because I think this novel really goes very slow,but the only thing that makes me  read this book is the sentence from the author that after  rading this book sure you will start beliving in god.

As if now with the 2nd chapter  the Author is saying that pools in paris was not very good,they were not well maintained. Yeah one thing i didnt understand about this novel is from when the author actually started narrating the Pi because intially he was explaining about his studies his schooling  and everything.

In the 2nd chapter   Pi mentions his stay at a hospital in Mexico, where he was treated exceptionally well. He lists his ailments—anemia, fluid retention, dark urine, broken skin—and says that he was up and walking in about a week’s time and he also describes how he felt wounded when a waiter in an Indian restaurant in Canada criticized him for using his fingers to eat.

In the end of the 2nd chapter  the author describes Pi as a small, gray-haired, middle-aged man, who talks quickly and directly.

Life of Pi chapter 3 Cont

Hi, everybody

                       With the 3rd chapter of the novel Life of Pi  what we have started, Pi’s narrative resumes, as he reflects on his boyhood in India. Pi relates that he was named after a pool. His parents did not like water, but he learned to swim from a family friend, Francis Adirubassamy, whom Pi calls Mamaji. In India we call our uncle or In our religion we call our Mom’s brother “Mama”,”Ji” is used just as a respect. Mamaji was a champion swimmer when he was young, and he sees in Pi a love for the ritualistic nature of swimming, stroke after stroke. Mamaji’s favorite pool in the world is the Piscine Molitor in Paris, and it is after that pool that Pi received his unusual name.

The chapters 2nd and 3rd are very short so there is nothing much to write but now the actual story begins with chapter 4th.So dont forget to read our Chapter 4 summary

    

Life of pi

Hi every one

  Me and my group have started with a novel called Life Of  Pi.This Novel is by a canadian author Yann Martel,this novel is all about a protogonist(character,hero) Piscine “Pi” Moliter Patel. An Indian boy from Pondicherry(a union territory of India ,a former french colony.In september 2006  the officials changed this former name pondicherry to puducherry which means “New colony” in Tamil language)explores the issues of religion and spirituality from an early age and survives 227 days shipwrecked in pacific ocean.

Right now we are on chapter one which is all about Author’s introduction and his education and how he met Pi patel,intially I think the story is very boring but I am very much eager to read the next chapters because the book says after reading the story of Pi patel you will start beliving in God.