2). Early in the novel, we discover that the narrator majored in religious studies and zoology, with particular interests in a "sixteenth-century Kabbalist and the admirable three-toed sloth". In subsequent chapters, he explains the ways in which religions and zoos are both steeped in illusion. Having the reader know he has researched these areas allows us to understand the story from a factual point of view while he entices his audience with his story telling abilities, going back to the difference between the "dry yeastless factuality", to the "better story" where reason crosses with imagination.
3). Early in the novel, we discover that the narrator majored in religious studies and zoology, with particular interests in a "sixteenth-century Kabbalist and the admirable three-toed sloth". In subsequent chapters, he explains the ways in which religions and zoos are both steeped in illusion. Having the reader know he has researched these areas allows us to understand the story from a factual point of view while he entices his audience with his story telling abilities, going back to the difference between the "dry yeastless factuality", to the "better story" where reason crosses with imagination.
4) I agree with Pi's beliefs that animals enjoy being in a zoo. I believe that in a zoo you are given everything you need without having to work for it. For example, the carnivores have there