I teach the novel "Life of Pi" to my AP English students. In case you don't know, the book says it is a "story that will make you believe in God." I'm of a secular bent myself, but appreciate its poetry. I tell my kids that Pi expresses the relationship of a circle to a line, a sphere to a cube. The main character, a boy named Pi, lives the relationship of literal truth and myth, a world without God and one with.
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I teach the novel "Life of Pi" to my AP English students. In case you don't know, the book says it is a "story that will make you believe in God." I'm of a secular bent myself, but appreciate its poetry. I tell my kids that Pi expresses the relationship of a circle to a line, a sphere to a cube. The main character, a boy named Pi, lives the relationship of literal truth and myth, a world without God and one with.
Love it.
Don't forget never-ending.
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