Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Life of Pi


10/7/08

I am done reading my last book called "The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore." Now im reading another book called "Life of Pi" This book is about a 16 year old boy named Pi Patel who lives in India. In the begining of the book Pi is talking about going to school in Brazil to become a zoologist. He also explains about a project he is doing for one of his classes. His project is about three-toed and four-toed sloths and how they are different, and also similure. He also starts to tell the reader about his life when he was little, and how his parents named him after a swimming pool in Paris, France. Pi talks about when he was 7, a good friend of his family took him down to the beach so he could learn how to swim. It took him awhile to get used to it but, once he got used to being in the water he learned fast. Every week Pi's friend would take him to the beach and swim. Pi's friend always told stories about when he was in the olympics in Paris. He told Pi all about the swimming pools and beaches that they have in Paris. Although, most of them were very dirty and crowded. Pi also tells the reader about his father who is a zoologist. (As you can see, Pi wants to become a zoologist just like his father.) Pi also talks about the days him and his family lived in the zoo, and how every morning the roaring of the lions woke him up, just like an alarm clock. And when he went to school, he would have to walk through the zoo, passing all of the animals that would watch him walk by. Then Pi tells us how his fathers zoo closed down because of the people who thought zoos were inhuman. And that's all that i've read so far.

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