The second section was much easier for me to read than the first part! I like this section more because it has more action instead of just talking about religions. This section also tells you the traumatic event that Pi alludes to in the first section.
We find out that the ship Pi and his family were on sinks, and Pi's whole family dies. Pi ends up on a lifeboat with a tiger, a hyena, a zebra, and an orangutan. Most of the section is about his struggle to survive on this boat. The book gets a little gruesome when the hyena kills the zebra and decapitates the Orange Juice. This part made me pretty upset, because Orange Juice is my favorite character in the book.
Pi seems very compassionate towards the animals. For example, he basically saves Richard Parker by getting him to get on the boat, so he won't die. He also feeds Richard Parker and keeps him alive. I guess he also did that so the tiger wouldn't eat him. When Orange Juice dies, Pi seems pretty upset.
I thought it was really interesting that Pi holds on to religion. I think religion kind of kept him holding on because it gave him hope. Pi's passion for religion in the beginning of the book is probably because it helped him get through this time.
It's pretty cool that Pi is able to pretty much train Richard Parker and they kind of bond. The weirdest part of the book so far is when Pi runs into another blind guy in the middle of the ocean. What are the chances that he would run into some other guy in the ocean. Ii shows the bond between Pi and Richard Parker when Richard Parker kills the guy for trying to kill Pi. This reminded me of Pi learning in the beginning of the book that humans are the most dangerous animal.
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