Based on Ch. 1-3 of LOP, how would you describe Pi's character so far?
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Pi's character is a very interesting person who has a respect and passion for life. He talks about how there is always a skull by his side waiting to take life from him because he explains that death is so amazed by the beauty of life that it wants to be closer to it and take it away from you.
ReplyDeletePi's character also has a love for swimming. He was taught this by his uncle which he calls mamajii. Mama meaning uncle and jii a sense of love and respect for another in Pi's culture. Pi has had some bad luck in his life of which he speaks of where got very sick and was anemic. in addition during the period of that time Pi speaks of losing someone close. thus this shows us how life and death play a big role in Pi's life. Overall He is a very well rounded person who has a passion for life and swimming.
Pi seems to be a very passionate character who is also looking for adventures while discovering new things with his uncle who taught him how to swim. I also noticed how he admires his uncle for being so passionate about swimming.
ReplyDeletePiscine Molitor Patel is a very intelligent young man. His personality is filled with passion, work ethic, and maturity extremely beyond his own age. He shows passion and work ethic through anything that he is even slightly interested in. For example, in the first chapter he mentions that during his years in college he did a double major of religious studies as well as zoology, and he was able to graduate with a double bachelor degree in both subjects. Being able to achieve degrees in two subjects take a lot of work ethic and determination. Through this example I can also state that he is very intelligent and smart. He is only 16 years old and he has already graduated from college, while acknowledging the environment and differences he experiences in college. Signs of maturity are also exemplified during the beginning of the novel, where he also mentions about his college peers only caring about "beer drinking, sex, and baseball while not talking about science". These characteristics define Pi Patel thus far.
ReplyDeletePatel seems to be a very bright and optimistic person. He graduated with high honors from St. Michael's College, earning various awards for zoology. He tends to see the good in people, and is very accepting. Patel seems very spiritual, but gets along with and respects his scientific "atheistic" comrades. Patel's optimism seems to come from his love of life and all of it's beauties. This seems to stem from hardships he's faced, and he says "when you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling." He then goes on to mock death, calling it only envious of life.
ReplyDeleteAs far as what makes up Pi's character so far, what we can tell is that he loves nature, animals, and zoology. He has nothing good to say about working, calling a tie a noose that will eventually hang a man. He loves swimming, a love that stems from being taught at a young age by his uncle.
Pi seems like a very confident and intelligent person referring to being a good student and top in his class. Pi is cosmopolitan, he talks about being in the jungles of brazil to being in Mexico and then in Canada. He talks about being in he hospital in Mexico, having a bad case of anemia all the while interacting with the spanish speaking visitors even though he didn't speak spanish. His personality seems friendly, openminded and talkative.
ReplyDeleteHe has a passion for swimming. He talks about Mamaji and he expresses a deep sense of love and respect. An example was how he swam two full lengths of credible butterfly for Mamaji's birthday, and after he was so tired he couldn't even wave. It was great how he tied in all the swimming stories and eventually came to how he was given his name.
Pi seems like a passionate and intelligent, but at the same time he had a inferiority complex.By looking at his contribution to academic study, he was a careful and observant student in the University of Toronto. For instance, he got awarded every possible awards from zoology department, and he was called as an honor student.
ReplyDeleteContrary to passionate and intelligent, he was a vulnerable person with self inferiority of others. From the beggining of this book, he started with sentence which explains him as a sad and gloomy person, but he worked hard to recover his tormented life. On top of that he envied other student who got awared from the university of Toronto's highest undergraduate award. By reading about his life and reaction toward other people, he was also a vulnerable and self inferiority person.
Pi's character is well described by the author. The author's well descriptive choice of words gives bit of clear perspective on what kind of character Pi is. At the same time, Pi's characteristics also portray the author's character in different perspective. Throughout the chapters, Pi's passion drives him to seek and challenge himself. The way Pi sees through situations and relating it to certain aspects of life, we can see that Pi is a deep thinking person. His intellects are proven by his description of his life during St. Michael's College. Recieving many awards throughout his studies. His observation on the sloth and his relation with life and sloth characterizes him as soft hearted naturist yet an insightful person. He was sure of what he was doing comepared to his "preoccupied mind" friends.
ReplyDeletePi has a great out look on life. He is filled with goals he would like to accomplish. He is an intellegent student with many awards to prove it. He also seems to be a bit depressed or sad in side. He almost seems to be dealing with a great deal of pain within himself. As a child he seemed very interesting in his surroundings and was willing to push himself to learn new things.
ReplyDeleteThe author at first seem a bit borning but as you read about the story about believing in god it gets more interesting. He is also very detailed when telling you his story. Pi seems to love animals. He is very smart and has recieved many awards. He does sometimes seems sad and as if something was missing inside of him.
ReplyDeleteMartel portrays Pi in the first few chapters as an academic overachiever in the fields of Zoology and Religion. He is competative yet humble and sees things in a different light than perhaps most people would see them. He is very religious, or rather pious because Martel never actually reveals much about this aspect of Pi's life.
ReplyDeleteHe is outgoing and has many science friends who probably do not share in his faith. He has typical hobbies and is quite normal in that respect. He is very candor about his love for swimming and he does mention the "simplicity" of it which I thought could be a possible reason. Maybe the large body of water and its lack of complexity gives him a liberating feeling.