The second story could be the true story. When Pi was temporarily blind he met another person stranded in a lifeboat. The person had a french accent and admit to killing a man and woman. “ ‘The blind Frenchman they met in the other lifeboat-didn’t he admit to killing a man and a woman?’ ‘Yes, he did.’ ‘The cook killed the sailor and his mother’ ” In the first story the blind Frenchman who knew a lot about food could just be the cook from the second story, which may be the true story because it’s suspicious that there would be another Frenchman in a lifeboat who wasn’t the cook, but it could have just been a coincidence. Another fact proving that either story could be true is that the first and second stories correlate. The stories have
