Life of Pi: Week 5, Post A

One main cultural difference I have found throughout the book was the relationship between Pi Piscine and his parents. Pi's father is a tough man, who demands the best and wants to show the dangers of life, and his zoo, to his family. Like in America, he doesn't always share the same ideas as his wife. Unlike here, he has much more say in the family. Also, I feel like, and maybe it's wrong for me to say so, but I feel as if Pi respects his father much more than we respect our parents here. Pi never questions what his father does, and also goes with his plans. Even when his father asks him to watch a lion slaughter and eat a goat, Pi does it without question. Today, one of us might say something along the lines of "Dad! No way!" but Pi does it without any doubts. His blind following is something we don't often see in today's world. 

Something we also do (or don't see) is the presence of Pi's mother. Everyone loves their mom, but I feel Pi's mother plays much smaller of a role in his life than my mother does in mine. For example, in the zoo, Pi's father makes all the rules, he makes the decisions, and he watches over everything. Pi's mother is not mentioned once! I found the differences between family relationships shocking.