And in that statement, I thought back to our class discussion about adversity. The fact is that when comparing people to each other, just as Mamaji compared the pools, we all have different situations going. Some of us may appear to be "cleaner" or more put together than others, like the pools, but in spite of that we all have our flaws. We all have "gob and spit" which can be represented through the adversity that we face.
Chattahoochee River
Friday, March 6, 2015
The Life of Pi- Piscine Molitor Patel
In the third chapter, Mamaji's description of the pool at Piscines Chateau-Landon stood out to me. It wasn't the best pool in Paris, nor was it the worst. Obviously, on the outside he was just talking about another pool and its lack of cleanliness. Even though this pool was much cleaner compared to some of the other pools in Paris, Mamaji still noted that "There was so much gob and spit floating in the water, [that he] thought [he] was swimming through jellyfish."
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I like the comparison that you're making and how you're tying it into our theme, and I think the pool can also show that usually we're not the best person out there nor are we the best, but we just have to accept our flaws and adversity we face and instead use them to enhance ourselves.
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