Chapter 26

Pi decided that he wanted to have a Christian baptism and that he wanted a prayer rug so he could pray outside. To get these things, he had to muster the courage to talk to his father about them. He told his father his request. His father questioned his desire. He told him that he wanted to be baptized and pray to Allah because he loved God. His father said that he could not be both Muslim and Christian. Then his father told him to talk to his mother about it. He tried to talk to his mother, but she avoided the subject, telling him to first talk to his father. Then she tried to talk to him about a book.