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Pi was born in Pondicherry India, his father ran a zoo there and came to have it after a business opportunity opened up in the Pondicherry Botanical Garden which Pi’s father “jumped” on. The novel Life of Pi is a well written story about Pi and his love for god and how he became in-love with religion of all kinds. Pi also known as Piscine Molitor Patel got his real name from a story that his honorary uncle Mamaji told Pi’s father; it was of a swimming pool in France. Piscine is the french word for swimming pool. Unfortunately for Pi his peers didn’t see it as a beautiful swimming pool but as a way to mock and pick on him. Which leads to the reason Piscine is now known as Pi, after so long of being tormented because of his name he decided …show more content…

Yes this paragraph is about religion and Pi’s involvement in it and his beliefs around it. Seems rambling on and on is the trend for this essay so why stop now. Pi was born a Hindu and practices everything relating to Hinduism and knew the gods and idea behind them and their stories. But Pi’s love for god brought him to Christianity and then to Islam. Pi saw no reason why he couldn’t believe in many religions because they all believe in god no matter the form or difference, he saw god as god and loved him. PI had a science teacher, an atheist science teacher. You would think that given Mr. Kumar (the teacher) being an atheist that Pi would dislike him maybe even hate him but that’s not the case actually Mr. Kumar (the teacher) was one of his favorite teachers… Yes that was a bit of a run on sentence but it was needed sorry… Pi saw Mr. Kumar (the teacher) as a fellow brother as he should see people given his believe and love in god. The one thing Pi hated was agnostics (people who don’t and won’t believe in god) he sees it like this: If Mr. Kumar (the teacher) was on his deathbed he would most likely still refer to the harm feeling as a sign of a higher power whereas for an agnostic they would just see it as a possible brain failure. Oh there’s another Mr. Kumar (Islamic religious

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Sense after reading "life of Pi" Pi is a teenager born in India and at the same time believing in Christianity, Islam and Hinduism. His father runs a zoo, so he knows the habits of animals. Frankly speaking, the beginning of this story is not attractive, mixed with a religious belief in a teenager's growth experience. Then the story officially entered into the "fantasy draft". Pi family take boat to move to Canada with their animals, Pi's father wanted to bring the animals to a foreign country in order to sell a good price.

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Pi continues his journey by learning how to live in a small space with these animals and even training one of them. In the end Pi reveals another story with people replacing the animals that were on the lifeboat before. Pi had initially used animals which best represented the people who were really in the boat. This showed how throughout the story, since these people were put into a life threatening situation, they had revealed a more primal side. Life of Pi is accompanied with various symbols, with each

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