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6429964 No.6429964 [Reply] [Original]

Was the island his mother's rotting corpse?

>Island is apparently shaped like a woman
>It is a "floating" island
>Acidic part in the middle = stomach acids?
>Meerkats = maggots? (they also only come out at night)
>He doesn't eat the island or the meerkats, but the "Tiger" does
>Pi finds human teeth inside island, which makes him fear that the island will be the death of him

There are other explantions, but the part about the teeth never makes sense in those ones. They only make sense in this theory.

>> No.6429993

>>OP
thats not a bad theory tbh. i thought it was just an absurdist type dream, him going crazy from being stuck on a boat for months . im pretty dumb though so

>> No.6430106

>>OP
I thought the meerkats were otters and since he had never seen otters before he just described them as meerkats

I also thought the island was kelp

>> No.6430142

Fuck you it was real ;_;

>> No.6430153
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6430153

>"This book is proof of God!" ~ Obama
>read book:
>"my story's nicer than the truth, just like with God!"
>mfw

>> No.6430288
Quoted by: >>6430311 >>6430376

>>OP
It doesn't matter whether what you tell people is truth or fiction, because there's no such thing as truth, no real difference between fantasy and reality, so you might as well go with the more interesting story. That's "Life of Pi" in a nutshell.

>> No.6430311

>>6430288
There is what the Author knew to be the truth.

>> No.6430358
Quoted by: >>6430788 >>6430794

Dear Ruth, The island, ah, the island. The most frequently asked question: What does the island mean? It means what you choose to see in it. My narrative strategy in writting this book was to write a story that was progressively harder to believe. Will you believe that a boy could survive with a tiger? Yes? Good. Will you believe that the boy could go blind, the tiger could go blind and they could meet another blind man in another lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific? Yes? Great. Now will you believe in this crazy carnivorous island? I figure most readers will not believe it. Their suspension of disbelief will break down and readers will start making excuses for Pi: He's starving and hallucinating. In other words, reason will kick in. That's fine with me. But I hope that when readers get to Part Three of the novel and read the other story, the one without animals, that their revulsion at that story will be such that they, like the investigators, will choose the first story as the BETTER story. But I wanted that better story to have something unbelievable about it. I wanted it to get beyond the reasonable and the plausible. BECAUSE every great thing in life — be it religion, love, any ideal — has an element of the unreasonable to it. We are not computers. We need the pull of the unreasonable to get us through life. The island represents that unreasonable element in the first story.

>> No.6430376

>>6430288
that's dumb

>> No.6430436

>>OP
This makes sense.

>> No.6430600
Quoted by: >>6430703

This was a really great book and I'm actually very glad that it was sub-pleb tier in terms of difficulty because it means anyone can read this book and learn how to stop belittling people for their beliefs

>> No.6430675

dude pass the bong

>> No.6430703
Quoted by: >>6430721 >>6430816

>>6430600
Atheists just read it and think, "Of course none of it happened. What a stupid book."

>> No.6430721
Quoted by: >>6430984

>>6430703
Atheists can't into fables and tales, they are too obtuse for even the slightest stretch of the mind.

>> No.6430788

>>6430358
cool beans

>> No.6430794

>>6430358
Great, thanks

>> No.6430816

>>6430703
What's that fallacy called, the on where you base points on generilizations?

>tips jesus

>> No.6430984
Quoted by: >>6431010

>>6430721
Not accepting fables and tales as truth has nothing to do with not being able to "stretch your mind brooo sick". Fables are fables: atheists realize this. Christians don't.

>> No.6431010
Quoted by: >>6431037

>>6430984
worthless rhetoric
If you have nothing to contribute do not post, we're not here to validate your uninteresting angst against your grandmother who, in her blind love, wanted to grand you heaven by taking you with her to mass

>> No.6431014

>>OP
The book was decent, movie was fucking shit. Hard telling what the island represented. I'm inclined to think it was just an island.

>> No.6431037

>>6431010
????????????
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I'm so sorry for not liking your fave novel, bro.