Homework tonight: You need to finish your introduction, paragraph on religion and the topic sentences of your next two paragraphs. Due next lesson.
Reminder: your AT for LOP will be August 27.
Here are some ideas for topic sentences from today’s class:
- Pi is able to make sense of the world and relieve his pain through his religious multiplicity.
- Pi’s childhood in Pondicherry exposes him to three religions and it is this religious multiplicity that assists him survive his later cruel ordeal on the Pacific Ocean.
- From an early age Pi was fascinated by the many aspects of a variety of religions.
- Through Pi’s exposure to religion in his youth he gains faith in a higher power keeping him hopeful about humanity and the cruelty of the universe.
- YM examines the failure of religion but the triumphs of faith in Pi’s personal journey through his tumultuous youth under the protection of his beliiefs.
- During the novel LOP it is Pi’s faith and religious multiplicity that helps him survive and take on the challenges the real world holds.
- The concurrence and diversity of the religions explored throughout Pi’s childhood, the diversified nature of the mindsets that come with it allow him to survive what is ultimately a religious pilgrimage.
- The intricate nature of the religions that are presented to Pi in his childhood lets him face his trials on his arduous journey with a sense of hope and a higher purpose to his suffering.
