Why do you think the speaker liked to visualized his childhood days in terms of the interesting happenings in a good zoo?(The Fragrance of the God)
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you think the speaker liked to visualized his childhood days in terms of the interesting happenings in a good zoo?(The Fragrance of the God)
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An Idyllic Childhood
How many children would love to grow up with a zoo in their backyard? For Pi Patel, in the Life of Pi, this fantasy is a reality. When Pi is young, his father becomes zookeeper of the Pondicherry Zoo. Pi describes a 'paradise on earth' of a place that is the backdrop to his everyday experiences.
As Pi remembers, 'my alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions…Breakfast was punctuated by the shrieks and cries of howler monkeys, hill mynahs and Moluccan cockatoos.' When Pi leaves for school, he is watched by 'bright-eyed otters and burly American bison and stretching and yawning orang-utans.' Indeed, before Pi has even left the grounds, he has seen a breathtaking variety of animal life.
Pi never becomes complacent. He describes the joy of an elephant searching his pockets with its trunk for snacks. He remembers the 'perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head.' Living at a zoo provides Pi with a childhood that is about as good as it gets. As he says, 'I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.' Sounds decidedly nicer than the typical childhood experience - no video games here!
A Passionate Defense
With Pi's obvious delight at his childhood home, it's not surprising that he mounts a passionate defense of zoos in chapter four. Pi delivers a sophisticated argument aimed at the most common critique of zoos. To many, zoos are cruel because the creatures therein are not 'free.' To these detractors, zoos are run by 'wicked men' who throw animals into 'tiny jails.' As a result, the animals suffer from a broken spirit.
Nonsense, says Pi. He explains that animals in the wild are no less 'free' than those in zoos. These animals struggle 'within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food low and where territory must constantly be defended.' How free does that sound?
To Pi, it is a silly romantic notion to think that animals can, or want to, simply roam around 'free.' Wild animals are very territorial. This is 'the key to their minds.' Familiar territory is necessary for animals to stay safe and get food and water. Therefore, an enclosure at the zoo is just another kind of territory. According to Pi, 'an animal will take possession of its zoo space in the same way it would lay claim to a new space in the wild.'
Pi asserts that zoo enclosures are 'subjectively neither better nor worse for an animal than its condition in the wild.' Pi even suggests that animals would choose to live in zoo over the wild, given 'the absence of parasites and enemies and the abundance of food.' By end of chapter four, it's difficult to find a hole in Pi's very sound argument.
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