Sunil

Chapter 13 & 14

sunny85 — Tue, 01 May 2007 04:19:19 +0000

This week I read chapters 13 and 14, these two brief chapters both discuss pack relations. Chapter 13 notes that an animal will attack primarily to protect its territory and that a trainer must gain a psychological edge over an animal by establishing territorial…

Chapter 12

sunny85 — Tue, 01 May 2007 04:16:04 +0000

This week I read chapter 12, here the author discusses how much telling his story upsets Pi, and how spicy the food is that Pi serves.

Chapter 10

sunny85 — Tue, 01 May 2007 04:14:00 +0000

This week I read chapter 10, here the Pi was describing about the behaviours of different animals and about the characters in the earlier chapters. Here the Pi wants to empasize on the fact that animals will escape only when they feel that their enclosures are unsuitable for them to live there .Every animal has particular habitat needs that must be met .For example ,If it is sunny or too wet or too empty ,If its perch is too high or too exposed ,If the ground is too sandy ,If there are too few branches to make etc then the animal will not be at peace .There fore enclosures must be right i.e within the limits of the animal’s capacity to adapt. Animals don’t escape to somwhere but from something . Someting within there territory has frightened them -like intrusion of an enemy ,assault of a dominant animal ,a startling noise etc.Animal always escape where there ia sence of security and they are dangerous only to those who happen to get between them and their reckoned safe spot

Chapter 9

sunny85 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:12:33 +0000

Hi friends, In this chapter Piscine explains flight distance—the minimum distance at which an animal will tolerate a potential predator or enemy. Getting animals used to the presence of humans, he continues, is the key to the smooth running of a zoo and may be accomplished by creating a good enclosure, providing food and water, and knowing each animal well. Taken care of in this way, zoo animals rarely if ever run back to the wild.

chapter 8

sunny85 — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:11:55 +0000

Hi Friends, This week I read Chapter 8 ,in this chapter Mr. Pi describes in vivid detail the day his father fed a live goat to a caged tiger to teach Pi and his brother, Ravi about the danger posed by wild animals. But, according to a sign in the zoo, the most dangerous animal of all is man.

chapter 7

sunny85 — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:39:52 +0000

Hi friends

This week, I read Chapter 7 which is bit different from the earlier Chapters what I read , as this chapter is all about Mr. Pi’s biology teacher, Mr. Satish kumar at Petit Seminaire, an atheist communist with whom Pi feels a deep kinship. In fact, Pi says, atheists are simply people of a different faith, with strong beliefs. It is agnostics, full of doubt and uncertainty and devoid of faith, whom Pi cannot stomach.

Mr. Pi describes his biology teacher’s appearence as peculiar one , his construction was Geometric :he looked like two triangles ,a small one and a larger one ,balanced on two parallel lines

Chapter 5

sunny85 — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:36:18 +0000

Hello friends this week I read Chapter 5 ,PI himself is the narrator of this chapter . Here Pi describes the teasing he received as a child because of his full name, Piscine, which the other school children turned into Pissing, and how he trained his classmates and teachers to call him Pi by writing it on the chalkboard of each of his classrooms.

The watery associations of Piscine Molitor’s full name are undeniable: piscine not only means “pool” in French but shares a derivation with pisces, or fish. As befits his name, Pi learns how to swim from Francis Adirubasamy, and he gravitates toward water. His full name performs two related and yet antithetical functions in the text: first, it emphasizes the idea that a very strong swimmer like Pi might realistically have survived in the ocean after a shipwreck; and second, it is such an odd name that is has the ring of allegory, positioning Pi as a mythic or fabled character. The literal, mathematic symbol pi, an almost impossibly long number whose combinations never repeat, also symbolizes Pi’s long journey, with all its variations.

Chapter 6

sunny85 — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:34:55 +0000

Hello friends This week I read yet another short chapter,Here the main voice is voice of the author, who tells us that Pi’s kitchen in Canada is extremely well-stocked. Author admires him as an excellent cook, his house always smells delicious .His spice rack looks like an apothcary’s shop

Chapter 4

sunny85 — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:14:34 +0000

This week I read chapter 4 in which Pi and his father is the main character. Here PI explains that he grew up thinking the zoo was paradise. He discusses the ritualistic habits of zoo creatures. 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

Chapter3

sunny85 — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:18:44 +0000

His uncle Francis Adiru baswamy (aka mamaji means uncle ) ,who was a champion and a competitive swimmer of south India at that time .Pi considered him as aquatic guru(master).But narrator’s brother Mr. Ravi used to tease Pi’s uncle ,since his uncle’s chest is so tick and the legs are so skinny that Ravi called him nickname Mr. Fish. Mamaji used to swam 30 length every morning at the pool of the Aurobindo Ashram .He trie to teach Pi’s parents to swim,but he never got them to go beyond wading up to their knees at the beach and making ludicrous round motions with their arms. Mamaji was patient and encouraging to train me as a good swimmer.

The narrator is gushing through his vivid memories of swimming with Mamaji .He was telling that his gift to mamaji ,one birthday was two full length of credible butterfly when he was 13 .