Dialectical Journal For Life Of Pi

Imagine if a young Indian boy who was lost at sea told you that he spent Almost a year living on an 8 by 26 foot lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. Do you think you would believe his story, or would you think it was all a part of his imagination? In the novel ”Life of Pi” , The protagonist tells the readers two different stories and gives them the option to choose which story they believe is the real one. He gave one story including animals and bizarre events, and another story that included other humans and events that seemed more realistic. Although the second story he told seemed more likely to really happen, The first story he told, which included Richard Parker, is the real story of what happened. The story including Richard parker is the real

This is probably the biggest reason for believing that this story is the real one. One example of this is how in detail and how many facts he included about dealing with Richard parker and how he domesticated him. He included many facts about tigers and many actions that you would experience when dealing with a tiger. He also goes into very deep detail about the days he spent in the boat and on the carnivorous island. The explanations about the meerkats, the algae, and all of the other stuff that happened on the boat were very specific, and would be difficult to just make up off the top of his head. So, the very descriptive details about the events in the book including on the boat, the island, and about Richard parker are one of many reasons why Pi’s original story was the first

First, Pi didnt come up with that whole story about the shipwreck with the humans in his head in those few minutes he was silent. He just changed the characters from the first story from animals to humans in the second one. Each human character matched one of the animals in the real story, and did very similar things that the animals did. The fact that it was humans made the japanese think it was real just because there was no animals in it. So although the second story of the shipwreck seems more realistic, that doesnt necessarily make it any more real than the first