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COMMENTARY CHAPTER 7, LIFE OF PI

Life of pi was published in 2003 and it quickly became a best seller. According to the Daily Telegraph “it’s an original and hilarious novel”. It was loved by the critics and it also won the prestigious man booker prize which is British prize. It was written by Yann Martel a Canadian author, who is a globe trotter so he’s very open-minded. He wrote two other novels but they were failures. He was inspired to write this novel while he was inspired to write this novel while he was staying in India. Mr Martel used his knowledge of philosophy, zoology and religion that he gained during his studies to write an original novel.
It’s the story of Pi Patel an Indian who lived in a zoo during his childhood. His father is the directory of a zoo and he gave Pi his passion for animals.
Chapter five and six, Pi told us about his name and how as a boy he managed to change how he was viewed and how his name was used at petit Seminaire. Explanations of Pi’s name take up nearly as much text as his philosophizing about zoos. The literal number whose combinations never repeat also symbolises Pi’s journey will all its variations. Given the amount of energy that pi devotes to the ideas of rituals and routine in the life of zoo creatures, it is telling that he uses repetition to train his schoolmates and teacher into calling him Pi. One day at school, he leaps during roll call and writes his full name on the blackboard; then he underlines his preferred nickname Pi and speaks it aloud. He carries out in act in each classroom during every roll call to the point. Where his follow students start to follow along. For humans as well as animals repetition proves to be a very good teacher.
We return to pi’s Pondicherry narrative, Pi recalls his relationship with Mr Satish Kumar, his biology teacher at petit Seminaire. Kumar was his favourite teacher and his first atheist Pi ever met. Mr Kumar is an atheist communist with whom Pi feels a