Jesse Gramajo
Mrs.Engel
English IV
16 April 2016
Life of Pi - Dialectical Journal
Rel - “It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we.”(31) Here Pi says atheist do not bother him because they believe in something. Instead he says Agnostics bother him. He said that they choose not to pick a side. By saying this Pi is trying to tell the reader to choose what to believe in. To choose God or no God and stop being on edge.
Rel - “I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both”(21) Pi is saying a zoo is more like …show more content…
Hindus love everything. Muslims see God in everything. Christians have a lot of faith.
COA - “Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured. What is the meaning of freedom in such a context?Animals in the wild are, in practice, free neither in space nor in time, nor in their personal relations"(16) This quote describes Pi's opinion on freedom. He describes freedom the ability to exercise free will with one's time, space, and relations. Animals and anyone's life that is always threatened do not have this free will. This quote also talks about Pi's struggle for survival which limits his freedom and eventually brings him down to the level of animals. This shows Pi’s maturity on his opinions of freedom.
F - “I ran up the stairs. I got to the main deck. The weather wasn't entertaining any more. I was very afraid. Now it was plain and obvious: the ship was listing badly. And it wasn't level the other way either. There was a noticeable incline going from bow to …show more content…
He says boredom and terror are truly awful to hold in one mind. Even in his boredom Pi feels terror. In his terror, boredom. Pi's boredom becomes terror the way loneliness turns to isolation and isolation to emptiness and emptiness to a sense of the world's nothingness.
Rel - “I practised religious rituals that I adapted to the circumstances – solitary Masses without priests or consecrated Communion Hosts, darshans without murtis, and pujas with turtle meat for prasad, acts of devotion to Allah not knowing where Mecca was and getting my Arabic wrong. They brought me comfort, that is certain. But it was hard, oh, it was hard.”(208) Pi continues to practice his religious faiths at sea. Pi's faith (in the first part of the book) is untroubled . But the biggest challenge right now is worshiping in the middle of the ocean. Later on Pi seems to start losing hope in surviving but he believes that the gods will protect him either way. Because of this it shows how amazing Pi’s faith is. He still believes after all the struggle he is facing at the
Mrs.Engel
English IV
16 April 2016
Life of Pi - Dialectical Journal
Rel - “It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we.”(31) Here Pi says atheist do not bother him because they believe in something. Instead he says Agnostics bother him. He said that they choose not to pick a side. By saying this Pi is trying to tell the reader to choose what to believe in. To choose God or no God and stop being on edge.
Rel - “I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both”(21) Pi is saying a zoo is more like …show more content…
Hindus love everything. Muslims see God in everything. Christians have a lot of faith.
COA - “Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured. What is the meaning of freedom in such a context?Animals in the wild are, in practice, free neither in space nor in time, nor in their personal relations"(16) This quote describes Pi's opinion on freedom. He describes freedom the ability to exercise free will with one's time, space, and relations. Animals and anyone's life that is always threatened do not have this free will. This quote also talks about Pi's struggle for survival which limits his freedom and eventually brings him down to the level of animals. This shows Pi’s maturity on his opinions of freedom.
F - “I ran up the stairs. I got to the main deck. The weather wasn't entertaining any more. I was very afraid. Now it was plain and obvious: the ship was listing badly. And it wasn't level the other way either. There was a noticeable incline going from bow to …show more content…
He says boredom and terror are truly awful to hold in one mind. Even in his boredom Pi feels terror. In his terror, boredom. Pi's boredom becomes terror the way loneliness turns to isolation and isolation to emptiness and emptiness to a sense of the world's nothingness.
Rel - “I practised religious rituals that I adapted to the circumstances – solitary Masses without priests or consecrated Communion Hosts, darshans without murtis, and pujas with turtle meat for prasad, acts of devotion to Allah not knowing where Mecca was and getting my Arabic wrong. They brought me comfort, that is certain. But it was hard, oh, it was hard.”(208) Pi continues to practice his religious faiths at sea. Pi's faith (in the first part of the book) is untroubled . But the biggest challenge right now is worshiping in the middle of the ocean. Later on Pi seems to start losing hope in surviving but he believes that the gods will protect him either way. Because of this it shows how amazing Pi’s faith is. He still believes after all the struggle he is facing at the