LIFE OF PI PART 1

IN THE NOVEL LIFE OF PI SOME OF THE CHARACTERS ARE: PISCINE MOLITOR PATEL “PI”, HE WAS A STUDENT OF ZOOLOGY AND RELIGION STUDIES. RICHARD PARKER, THE ROYAL BENGAL TIGER, WHO RECENTLY KILLED A GOAT TO SHOW HOW AGGRESSIVE AND DANGEROUS HE IS. THE AUTHOR “YANN MARTEL” INSERTS HIMSELF INTO THE NARRATIVE IN SEVERAL POINTS THROUGH OUT THE TEXT. RAVI, PI OLDER BROTHER WHO PREFERS SPORTS TO SCHOOLWORK AND HE IS QUITE POPULAR. SANTOSH PATEL, PI FATHER WHO IS A ZOOKEEPER AT THE PONDICHEERY ZOO. SANTISH KUMAR, PI ATHESTIC BIOLOGY TEACHER AT PETITE SEMINARE. SANTISH KUMAR, MUSLIM MYSTIC THAT HAS FAITH THAT LEADS PI TO STUDY RELIGION, FATHER MARTIN IS A CATHOLIC PRIEST WHO INTRODUCED PI TO CHRISTIANITY AFTER PI WANDERS AROUND HIS CHURCH.

PI IS AND INDIAN BOY WHO’S REAL NAME IS PISCINE MOLITOR PATEL. HE WAS GIVEN THE NAME PISCINE MOLITOR BY HIS FATHER`S FRIEND WHO WAS A CHAMPION SWIMMER OF SOUTH INDIA. HOWEVER, PI WAS OFTEN CALLED PISCINE BY HIS CLASSMATES AND THIS TORMENTED HIM VERY MUCH. WHEN PI STARTED SECONDARY SCHOOL, HE MANEGED TO GET KNOWN BY STUDENTS AND TEACHERS AS PI PATEL. HE SHOWED HIS INTELLIGENCE BY TELLING ALL STUDENTS AND TEACHERS WHAT PI STANS FOR.

PI FATHER WAS A ZOOKEEPER IN PONDICHERRY. GROWING UP IN A ZOO WAS LIKE PARADISE IN EARTH FOR PI. THE EXEPIRENCE OF GROWING UP SORROUNDED BY A VARIETY OF ANIMALS, HUGE GROUND IN WHICH TO ROAM IN AND OBSERVED CLOSELY THE VARIOUS PERFORMANCE OF THE ANIMALS BEHAVIORS AND INTERACTION BETWEEN HUMAN AND NATURE. PERHAPS THIS EXEPIRIENCE IS WHAT LED PI TO STUDY ZOOLOGY AND RELIGION. IN ADDITION, PI WAS AN EXELLENT STUDENT AND RECEIVED EVERY STUDENT AWARD OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. PI`S FATHER HAS ALWAYS TOLD HIM THAT HUMANS ARE THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMALS IN THE ZOO BECAUSE OF THE CRUELTY AND THE ASSAULTS THEY INFLICT ON THE ANIMALS.

PI HAS BEEN HINDU ALL HIS LIFE. HOWEVER, PI HAS ALWAYS HAD A DEEP LOVE OF GOD, HE HAS PRACTICE HINDUISM ALL HIS LIFE BUT HE WHEN HE WAS EXPOSED TO CHRISTIANITY HE BECAME DEEPLY IMPRESSED BY A GOD OF LOVE. WHEN PI WAS FIVETEEN HE DISCOVERED ISLAM, A RELIGION OF “BROTHERHOOD AND DEVOTION.” PI LOVE OF GOD LED HIM TO PRACTICE ALL THREE RELIGIONS. LATER ON PI WAS BAPTIZED CHRISTIAN AND ALSO OBTAINED PRAYER ROUGE FOR HIS MUSLIM PRACTICED.

IN THE NOVEL LIFE OF PI, THERE ARE SOME CONFLICTS. ONE OF THE CONFLICTS IS BETWEEN PI AND HIS PARENTS BECAUSE THEY SO NOT WANT PI GETTING INVOLVE IN OTHER RELIGIONS SUCH AS CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM AND THERE IS ALSO A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE THREE RELIGIOUS LEADERS BECAUSE THEY WANT PI TO CHOOSE JUST ONE RELIGION TO PRACTICE. PI CHOOSES TO KEEP ON PRACTICING HINDUISM, ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY BECAUSE O HIS DEEP LOVE OF GOD. ANOTHER CONFLICT IN THE NOVEL IS THAT MS. GANDHI`S GOVERNMENT WAS BROUGHT DOWN IN FEBRUARY 1976 BY DELHI. THIS CONFLICT LED TO PI FAMILY TO MOVE OUT OF INDIA AND SELL THE ANIMALS TO NORTH AMERICA.

MY REACTION TO PART 1 OF THE NOVEL IS THAT IT SHOWED ME THE PI HAS A DEEP LOVE FOR GOD,NATURE AND ANIMALS. I FELT THAT PI IS A VERY DISTINGUISHED TYPE OF PERSON THAT COULD SEE HUMANITY IN A WAY THAT OTHER DIDN`T. HE HAD THE ABILITY TO APPRECIATE MANY ASPECTS OF NATURE AND RELATE THEM TO HIS DAILY LIVING.