Thursday, August 21, 2014

Connecting the dots (life of pi)

Storytelling can give you a perspective of things like the news. Everyone knows that when a story is a fact everyone will believe it. Religion can give you choices on rather if you know something good or bad or also give you a chance to know that something is true but into others people's perspective it's not true. I didn't quite understand about the 3.14 point but if I would have to make a guess I would say that 3.14 has an infinite meaning. Pi (3.14) can mean a lot of things when spoken of. Usually when you say Pi out loud, maybe there's gonna be a lot of hungry people wanting some actual pie, but if you say it possibly to a math nerd then maybe they will be interested in learning that topic. Life of Pi had a meaning to 3.14 like the thought of 3 meaning three religions and 1 meaning one person and 4 meaning four animals in a boat. 3.14 (Pi) can mean infinite things to different people. There came a point where we were suppose to question if the story was magical realism. The majority was a yes because everything that Pi was seeing out of the ordinary could of potentially just be fake but take place in the real world. That's what magical realism is, taking an illusion and putting it in a real setting. Then we asked is Richard Parker real? This is the part where things started to come together. Pi stands for fish and Richard Parker stands for thirsty. The moment life was at the shipwreck and stranded he had to adapt to new things that he doesn't usually do. That's where he entered the wild side, and that's where Richard Parker appeared in pi's life, he appeared when Pi mostly needed survival. Although once Pi got rescued Richard Parker vanished, that's because Pi was no longer in his wild mode, he was back to returning his original life. This means, Richard Parker was only in Pi's mind, Richard Parker was Pi's wild side. Life of Pi has a purpose for Martels writing in this story. The purpose for this story is that everybody has something to believe in but it's up to you on what you want to believe. 

2 comments:

  1. I agree with the purpose but I'm not fully convinced that Richard Parker wasn't really there. There's this nagging feeling that makes me think that Richard Parker was really there. He probably had a weird connection with Pi and only left so that he wouldn't eat him. Good job!

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  2. I agree with a lot points that you made but it feels like you summarized what we said in class. I do see some of your internal connections, but not many. After you make comment, try to connect that comment and expand on it even more.

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