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interesting take sandyboy. i liked the richard parker version, but believed the other story. only Pi knows "his" truth because they are both his stories.
Well, seeing as Pi is a very religious person, I think he was using his story as a metaphor for life and saying that you can choose to believe either story- the fantastic one that is less believable or the ordinary everyday one that makes more sense to people.
I think this book is hugely metaphoric, and it is a metafiction; so, yes it is all about story and what story does, and is. Marianne's question too is a good and interesting one, and the answers here are thought provoking. That sentence, 'and so it goes with God' brought the story full circle, back to where it began, with story, and with God; isn't God, or truth in story? And what are we doing when we write story?
I didn't catch the significance of this in the book, but it fascinated me in the movie, something about the way he delivered it. My interpretation is that God (the Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindi ones) sends us super-human characters to demonstrate and teach his love for us, how we should live, and to be examples of how the strength we need to overcome is within each of us. He could just tell us, but it'd be a lot more difficult to believe.
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interesting take sandyboy. i liked the richard parker version, but believed the other story. only Pi knows "his" truth because they are both his stories.
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Well, seeing as Pi is a very religious person, I think he was using his story as a metaphor for life and saying that you can choose to believe either story- the fantastic one that is less believable or the ordinary everyday one that makes more sense to people.
I think this book is hugely metaphoric, and it is a metafiction; so, yes it is all about story and what story does, and is. Marianne's question too is a good and interesting one, and the answers here are thought provoking. That sentence, 'and so it goes with God' brought the story full circle, back to where it began, with story, and with God; isn't God, or truth in story? And what are we doing when we write story?
I didn't catch the significance of this in the book, but it fascinated me in the movie, something about the way he delivered it. My interpretation is that God (the Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindi ones) sends us super-human characters to demonstrate and teach his love for us, how we should live, and to be examples of how the strength we need to overcome is within each of us. He could just tell us, but it'd be a lot more difficult to believe.
