Has anyone read Life of Pi?
By sis_syuku
@sis_syuku (165)
Indonesia
May 23, 2007 11:04pm CST
I read Life of Pi and I didn't see the methaphor that people talks about. About the Tiger represented the society? Or something like that... Does the book really have a lot methaphor behind it?
2 responses
@Aurone (4755)
• United States
28 May 07
I read that book for a reading group and we didn't discuss the fact that the tiger represents society. But I guess you could see it that way, society can be dangerous, but if you follow a certain set of rules you can survive with it. The book does have quite a bit of metaphor in it. One of the big questions in the book is which story is real, the tiger story or the story he tells the Japanese men at the end of the book.
@sis_syuku (165)
• Indonesia
31 May 07
Yes,that's right. But if the story he tells the japanese men is the truth, then what's the point we read his adventure on the sea?
@Aurone (4755)
• United States
31 May 07
I think the point is to show how far the mind will go in order to save us from something horrible that we just can't deal with. If the story told to the Japanese men is the truth, then Pi could not handle that truth, it was just too horrible. He couldn't wrap his mind or emotions around it and come out intact. So he makes up the story about the tiger much easier for his psyche to deal with and it allows him to keep himself emotionally and mentally intact. It also shows how "we" the reader are also more likely to want to believe or accept the "Tiger Truth" rather than the horrible reality of what probably did happen.
@sis_syuku (165)
• Indonesia
12 Jun 07
It's a book about a boy who is stranded alone in the sea with a Tiger on the same boat as he. It is interesting story and the author is clever to make the story believable.
