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A place for the educated exchange of information about books, reading, writing, and more. Format: title "Title of book" by Author. The post is the synopsis from the back of the book. Your comments are your feelings on the book, author, writing style, etc. Your comments are where you make your connections to the book and talk about what the book means to you and WHY!
Life of Pi was a quite interesting read. The book was not one of my habitual genres, however, I enjoyed the story.
ReplyDeleteIn my reading of it, I thought Richard Parker was real, and the cook was something that Pi created, as an analogy, to make the people of the shipping company believe something like his story.
I think Pi's use of analogy shows how much he has studied religion. Religious texts (such as the Bible or the Torah), are constantly using analogy. So it follows that he would think of analogy when trying to describe a complex occurrence.
I do not remember the story well enough, but I think that the cook would represent Richard Parker, the mother would be the zebra, etc.
On the topic of hallucinating, what about that flesh-eating island?
Was life of pi and good book? Would you reccomend me reading it?
ReplyDeleteI think Pi created the cook et al to make his story more believable to the questioners. In effect, to make his "audience" like his story better.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed Pi’s religious study, it made a lot of sense to me. I think that is a book I will add to my “Comparative Theology” class reading list.
Then again, it is a great fictional read about psychology as well. Maybe it should go in the psych reading list.
It was not my typical genre either. I enjoyed it immensely though. I just tried to read The Book Thief and the premise of that seemed interesting and psychological, but I couldn’t get past the style, it was a modified diary sort of.
Did you like the book Life of Pi? Who liked this book? Was it long?
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ReplyDeleteWhen I first read this book, I thought of the second story as an allegory of his first story, with Pi telling the second story so that the Japanese men from the insurance company would believe that something like his first experience actually happened. Of course, it’s also possible that it could be the other way around, the first story being an allegory of the second story. Pi may have told the first story as an allegory in order to send a message about religion.
As for that flesh-eating island, it could have been a hallucination, or it could possibly represent something. However, I cannot say for sure what it may represent. Of course, those aren’t the only two possibilities.
Awsome!! Sounds like you kindof liked this book!
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