The first time the human story is mentioned in Life of Pi, is when Pi is being interviewed by the two Japanese officials. Pi only produces the second story to satisfy the two interviewers, by stating what the Japanese men desire to hear and are successfully able to believe. The officers cannot comprehend how Pi’s animal story can be true, so Pi creates a more upsetting and darker story. Both of the accounts begin with the sinking of the Tsimtsum. In the movie Life of Pi, when Pi reveals the second, human story, Pi appears to be suffering with grief and agony. On the other hand in the book, Life of Pi, when Pi recounts the horrors of the human story to the Japanese men, Pi is irritated and frustrated to have to create a second more believable account of the same story for the interviewers. Pi articulates to the
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complete with gory details. We rush to believe it. He is a killer! Listen to the detail of the gore. Everything seems to fit!... Only to discover - it really doesn't. Just another made up story, because someone did not want to believe the impossible,” (“Life of Pi Question”). Pi realizes no matter what the two Japanese interviewers would never deem his animal story to be real. The interviewers desired to be informed of a normal more acceptable story, they cannot glean any knowledge from. The Japanese demand Pi to convey the real story, the “story that won’t surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won’t make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want a dry, yeastless factuality,” without Thirsty (or Richard Parker) (302). Therefore, Pi crafts the second, human story an attempt to satisfy the realist Japanese interviewers who desire to receive the straight facts from the story. The Japanese people were realists who could not believe in this irrational story out of their reach.
complete with gory details. We rush to believe it. He is a killer! Listen to the detail of the gore. Everything seems to fit!... Only to discover - it really doesn't. Just another made up story, because someone did not want to believe the impossible,” (“Life of Pi Question”). Pi realizes no matter what the two Japanese interviewers would never deem his animal story to be real. The interviewers desired to be informed of a normal more acceptable story, they cannot glean any knowledge from. The Japanese demand Pi to convey the real story, the “story that won’t surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won’t make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want a dry, yeastless factuality,” without Thirsty (or Richard Parker) (302). Therefore, Pi crafts the second, human story an attempt to satisfy the realist Japanese interviewers who desire to receive the straight facts from the story. The Japanese people were realists who could not believe in this irrational story out of their reach.