Chapter 7
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 .
Pi discovered his teacher, a avowed atheist not in the classroom but at the zoo. He was a regular visitor who read the labels and decriptive notices in their entirety and approve of every animal he saw. He don’t believe in religion ,according to him religion is darkness, and a little scientific knowledge will expose religion as superstitious bosh.
Pi’s teacher says that God does not exist ,the reason for his teacher being atheist ,when he was small he was bedridden as he racked with polio.He asked himself every day where is God? It wasn’t God who saved me -it was medicine who saved him.
It is agnostics, full of doubt and uncertainty and devoid of faith, whom Pi cannot stomach. According to Mr. Pi to choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to chosing immobility as a means of Transportation.
Well Friends ,I do hope the story will be more interesting from now onwards ,as Pi corelating the Zoo life with the life of human beings
that’s it for now
March 8, 2007
The chapter are all talking about Pi’s teacher. I think the teacher might be particular part in a way to him. His description of his teacher is so funny, but it seems he dislike the teacher.
Could you tell me more about Pi’s teacher?
I thought that Mr. Pi has deeply image with his teacher. He described a lot of things about his teacher. Did the teacher affect his life a lot?