Life Of Pi Discussion Essay
Life of Pi Discussion Questions
1. Life of Pi allowed the author to gain what he had been hungry for. He was wanting to write a good book and had been unsuccessful many times. Life of Pi was the emotional nourishment he had been longing for. 2. The town made a difference in Pi’s upbringing because it showed him the different religions and learned many needed from the zoo. 3. Mr. Adirubasamy claims Pi’s story will make you believe in God, although my beliefs were not altered. 4. In chapters 21 and 22 in Life of Pi the points that are talked about have to do with the love and light that come with religion. A lot of the story revolves around these points. 5. Religion is steeped in illusion because for a person with a strong …show more content…
faith for a religion they don’t question what is beyond what they know. They arnt curious to know the real meaning of everything and they are content with believing what they are given. Animals in zoo’s are similar because they are given a place to live with everything they need so they don’t need to find out what they do not already know. 6.
The essence of Pi’s story is that he faced a long, hard situation and made it through with out giving up or losing his faith. 7. Religion involves believing something based off of stories of things happening or already happened. Religions have many stories included with them. 8. An irrational number is a number that can not be written as a simple fraction. The number of Pi is irraritional and constant, which describes Piscine. 9. Life of Pi compares to other similar novels in ways like catching and eating food, losing eyesight, and watching for ships. It is different because he has an animal on board his boat with him. 10. If the sole surviving animal had been the zebra, the hyena, or the orangutain the story would be mainly about surviving the sea. Pi might have survived but Richard Parker helped keep Pi wanting to stay alive with a less dangerous animal he may have given up. I would choose to find myself an animal like orange juice to keep me company. 11. By participating in all 3 religions, Pi is only seeking to love God. Muslim, Hinduism, and Christianity are all Monotheistic. The difference between faith and belief is belief is an opinion about reality and faith is a strong feeling and knowing the
truth. 12. By Pi saying that we are all “in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God,” It means that science can’t explain everything but religion can. I believe that Pi’s faith is a response to the father’s agnosticism because he was seeking to learn what he already did not know. 13. According to Pi, Christianity would probably be blue because of it’s popularity.
15. Besides the loss of his family and possessions, Pi also lost his innocence when the Ttsimtsum sunk. He gained independence and maturity. 16. Starting High School marked my coming of age because I had to become responsible for myself and couldn’t depend on my parents for everything. 17. In the zoo, Mr. Patel gives the animals everything they need just as he does for his own children for living on their own, though. When he made Pi watch a tiger devour a goat he helped him realize how dangerous tiger’s are and to not go in their territory. 18. I think Pi would have whistled and waved at Richard Parker no matter what because he had the knowledge of what to do and he knew he would die if he didn’t.
1. Life of Pi allowed the author to gain what he had been hungry for. He was wanting to write a good book and had been unsuccessful many times. Life of Pi was the emotional nourishment he had been longing for. 2. The town made a difference in Pi’s upbringing because it showed him the different religions and learned many needed from the zoo. 3. Mr. Adirubasamy claims Pi’s story will make you believe in God, although my beliefs were not altered. 4. In chapters 21 and 22 in Life of Pi the points that are talked about have to do with the love and light that come with religion. A lot of the story revolves around these points. 5. Religion is steeped in illusion because for a person with a strong …show more content…
faith for a religion they don’t question what is beyond what they know. They arnt curious to know the real meaning of everything and they are content with believing what they are given. Animals in zoo’s are similar because they are given a place to live with everything they need so they don’t need to find out what they do not already know. 6.
The essence of Pi’s story is that he faced a long, hard situation and made it through with out giving up or losing his faith. 7. Religion involves believing something based off of stories of things happening or already happened. Religions have many stories included with them. 8. An irrational number is a number that can not be written as a simple fraction. The number of Pi is irraritional and constant, which describes Piscine. 9. Life of Pi compares to other similar novels in ways like catching and eating food, losing eyesight, and watching for ships. It is different because he has an animal on board his boat with him. 10. If the sole surviving animal had been the zebra, the hyena, or the orangutain the story would be mainly about surviving the sea. Pi might have survived but Richard Parker helped keep Pi wanting to stay alive with a less dangerous animal he may have given up. I would choose to find myself an animal like orange juice to keep me company. 11. By participating in all 3 religions, Pi is only seeking to love God. Muslim, Hinduism, and Christianity are all Monotheistic. The difference between faith and belief is belief is an opinion about reality and faith is a strong feeling and knowing the
truth. 12. By Pi saying that we are all “in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God,” It means that science can’t explain everything but religion can. I believe that Pi’s faith is a response to the father’s agnosticism because he was seeking to learn what he already did not know. 13. According to Pi, Christianity would probably be blue because of it’s popularity.
15. Besides the loss of his family and possessions, Pi also lost his innocence when the Ttsimtsum sunk. He gained independence and maturity. 16. Starting High School marked my coming of age because I had to become responsible for myself and couldn’t depend on my parents for everything. 17. In the zoo, Mr. Patel gives the animals everything they need just as he does for his own children for living on their own, though. When he made Pi watch a tiger devour a goat he helped him realize how dangerous tiger’s are and to not go in their territory. 18. I think Pi would have whistled and waved at Richard Parker no matter what because he had the knowledge of what to do and he knew he would die if he didn’t.