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
