Be sure to review yesterday's blog (sorry for the rather late posting) for next week's vocabulary words. The next vocabulary quiz will be next Wednesday, January 18th.
Please also complete the worksheet containing the 10 lines of poetry.
Here is Farzaneh's Life of Pi paragraph. Thanks for sharing!
"But fate decided that my parents and I and the three wise men, as I shall call them, should meet one day" (p.71)
This quote shows how Pi deals with different religions simultaneously. He believes all religions have the same merit and when the wise men insist on the correctness of their own religions, it ironically makes him less of a believer. Pi is a sixteen year old teenager who is interested in different aspects of religions. He loves God and can't understand why he should choose only one religion. He believes they have the same principles. They all invite people to peace and honesty and try to make the world a better place for all mankind. They are different only in some customs and traditions which have resulted from the location and background of the different worshipers. After the imam, the priest, and the pandit argue with each other, Pi feels all three are imposing their ideas on him and that they are annoyingly self-righteous. They try to convince Pi that their own religion is the best; but the more they debate, the less Pi credits them. In this part of the story, the writer is trying to make the point that one doesn't need a specific religion to believe in a higher power.
