The Human Story
Have you ever considered the way your brain perceives reality? Pi Patel sure has. He has questioned reality so much that he is not even sure what reality truly is anymore. However as the reader it is up to us to decipher and decide what the true story is. The true story is in fact the second story that Pi tells; the human story. The human story is the true story because it is much more feasible than the animal story, it is much more realistic than the human story, and the animal story is a clear coping mechanism straight out of Pi’s own head. The story involving people is much more feasible than the animal story for many reasons. A human 16 year old boy ends up in a lifeboat after a shipwreck with a zebra, tiger, hyena, …show more content…
First of all there is no way that the island could have ever existed. It was far too weird and could only have been complete fantasy. Secondly there isn’t any possible that a human being can live in harmony with a Bengal tiger in the space of 26 feet for a length of 227 days. Especially once that tiger gets hunger. Tigers are natural predators and carnivores they also have natural instincts instilled in them that teach them the basics of survival. Basically the tiger would have eaten if it was hungry. No amount of circus tricks could stop that from happening. Lastly there was not a random chance encounter with another blind survivor in the middle of the ocean. Yann Martel describes this encounter on page 250 “I had met another blind man on another lifeboat in the Pacific!” Pi was only describing the encounter he had with another human in the true story. In which Pi killed the other human instead of Richard Parker killing …show more content…
Pi better understands the actions of animals than he does of people. He basically says this before he even ends up in a lifeboat on page 53 where Yann Martel describes Pi thinking about the Christian religion in which Jesus dies for other’s sins “Humanity sins but it’s God’s Son who pays the price? I tried to imagine father saying to me, “Piscine, a lion slipped into the llama pen today and killed two llamas…”. As you can see Pi immediately compares something he doesn’t understand about humans to something he does understand about animals. The argument for the animal story being true might go something like, “If the human story is true then why is the majority of the book written about the animal story.” That is only because Pi has dwelled far more upon the animal story than the human story because he believes in the animal story. Also the animal story is the more interesting story. However just because the story is more interesting doesn’t make it more true. Pi even asks at what point “Which story do you prefer?” Suggesting Pi believes the story he likes more as opposed to the story that is
Have you ever considered the way your brain perceives reality? Pi Patel sure has. He has questioned reality so much that he is not even sure what reality truly is anymore. However as the reader it is up to us to decipher and decide what the true story is. The true story is in fact the second story that Pi tells; the human story. The human story is the true story because it is much more feasible than the animal story, it is much more realistic than the human story, and the animal story is a clear coping mechanism straight out of Pi’s own head. The story involving people is much more feasible than the animal story for many reasons. A human 16 year old boy ends up in a lifeboat after a shipwreck with a zebra, tiger, hyena, …show more content…
First of all there is no way that the island could have ever existed. It was far too weird and could only have been complete fantasy. Secondly there isn’t any possible that a human being can live in harmony with a Bengal tiger in the space of 26 feet for a length of 227 days. Especially once that tiger gets hunger. Tigers are natural predators and carnivores they also have natural instincts instilled in them that teach them the basics of survival. Basically the tiger would have eaten if it was hungry. No amount of circus tricks could stop that from happening. Lastly there was not a random chance encounter with another blind survivor in the middle of the ocean. Yann Martel describes this encounter on page 250 “I had met another blind man on another lifeboat in the Pacific!” Pi was only describing the encounter he had with another human in the true story. In which Pi killed the other human instead of Richard Parker killing …show more content…
Pi better understands the actions of animals than he does of people. He basically says this before he even ends up in a lifeboat on page 53 where Yann Martel describes Pi thinking about the Christian religion in which Jesus dies for other’s sins “Humanity sins but it’s God’s Son who pays the price? I tried to imagine father saying to me, “Piscine, a lion slipped into the llama pen today and killed two llamas…”. As you can see Pi immediately compares something he doesn’t understand about humans to something he does understand about animals. The argument for the animal story being true might go something like, “If the human story is true then why is the majority of the book written about the animal story.” That is only because Pi has dwelled far more upon the animal story than the human story because he believes in the animal story. Also the animal story is the more interesting story. However just because the story is more interesting doesn’t make it more true. Pi even asks at what point “Which story do you prefer?” Suggesting Pi believes the story he likes more as opposed to the story that is