A few random quotes and thoughts

A lot happens in chapter 17. At the beginning Pi says "I owe to hinduism the original landscape of my religious imagination....i was fourteen years old-and a well content hindu" Basically Pi starts off the chapter by saying how he was born a Hindu and he is happy with it but later he and his family go on vacation where he sees a mosque (muslim), a temple (hindu), and a Church (christian), After Pi tells us about these places that are set on three different hills next to each other he says "on our fourth day in Munnar, as the afternoon was coming to an end, I stood on the hill to the left." (where the church was). This quote shows the start of Pi's possible dynamic views of god and religion. Later in the chapter he tries to understand religion and compare it to Hinduism (what is familiar to him). This does strike up some confusion but at the end he says "I enter the church, without fear this time, for it was now my house too. I offered prayers to Christ, who is alive. Then i raced down the hill on the left and raced up the hill on the right-to offer thanks to Lord Krishna for having put Jesus of Nazareth, whose humanity i found so compelling, in my way" Pi has now fully accepted Christianity to his life.

Also when Pi is learning about Christianity he talks about the zoo again which makes another comparison between the zoo and religion. 

"Humanity sins but it's God's Son who pays the price? I tired to imagine Father saying to me, "Piscine, a lion slipped into the llama pen today and killed two llamas. Yesterday another one killed a black buck. Last week two of them ate the camel. The week before it was painted storks and grey herons. and who;s to say for sure who snacked on our golden agouti? The situation has become intolerable. Something must be done. I have decided that the only way the lion can atone for their sins is if I feed you to them" 

What i find interesting about this novel is that this Pi is just a typical child. He is just like every other student that attends Millburn High. He is majorly religiously orientated, as some are in MHS, and he has the same concerns and memories. I mean what i think is really cool is the fact that he goes off on these tangents that seem COMPLETELY RANDOM but somehow they relate back to his religious views. For example, the discussion we had in class today about Pi's father's lesson. I was in awe because a tiger eating a goar, while i was reading it, seemed a little bit far fetched on his father's part. But it all comes full circle. So my question is why? Why is Pi trying to make us think about all of the things going on in his life, like tiger eating goats? Why is he so religious, is it someone in his family pushing him or is it his own personal drive, or neither? Why does he have that drive in him to be different? When he changes his name he has time for infinite possibilities for WHAT though? I just don't see the point if youre constantly trying to be different and find your own why youre whole life... won't life just, in turn, pass you by?

During the reading tonight, the concept of love and death was brought up specifically in chapter 17. Pi asked, "Why would G-D wish that upon himself?" "Why not leave death to mortals?" "Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect?" Father Martin goes on to reply by simply saying "Love." Now, what is love? No, I'm talking about A Night at the Roxbury. Is love a feeling? Or is love an emotion? I for one find love to be a combination of both feeling and emotion, a feemotion if you will. Love is not a precalculated, preconceived idea, instead it is an unconscious, "thing" that one person shows towards another person.