Chapter 7

In this chapter Pi introduces one of his favorite teachers Mr. Satish Kumar. Mr. Kumar was a communist and the first atheist Pi had ever met. An atheist is a person who belives in no religion. When Pi first saw Mr.K at the zoo he didn't know how to greet him so he kept his distance until Mr. K noticed him and waved at him. Mr. K went on about talking about when he was a little boy he was diagnosed with polio. He said that he prayed to god to cure him but god did nothing and he also said that the medicince cured him not god.