What is ending of life of pi

He believes they want a "a story they already know. But the knockout punch happens when Pi tells an alternate version of his story. He retells the shipwreck, his survival, and his two hundred and twenty seven days at sea without the animals.

In their place, he puts himself, a Taiwanese sailor, his mother, and a cook. The story is horrific. Now for the big question: Which version do you believe? Do you think Pi, as young boy, comes up with fantastical tale to cope with an ugly truth? Or is it somehow not the point to decide what actually happened?

That the beauty of the first story outweighs the believability of the second? On the one hand, Martel spends a few hundred pages developing the first story and about seven on the second. The sheer volume, the proliferation of details, favors the first. On the other hand, the first story is also totally unlikely. He created the animal story to deal with his traumatic memories, and the film offers the audience the same option - believe the true humanist story, or a more fantastic, 'happier' tale with no concrete evidence which, ultimately, is what religious belief boils down to.

All of you may seem to have missed the following two scenes that suggest that first story was true:. When Pi throws the swim ring in the water to save 'someone' only to find that someone to be 'Richard Parker' instead. So 'Richard Parker' doesn't come out of the shed 'all of a sudden' as thought by many that all of a sudden he emerged out of nowhere, because of Pi's anger. Just before the movie ends, it is shown that 'Richard Parker' i.

Quite possible that upon being asked for a 'true' story, he could replace animals with humans because when he saw hyena being cruel, it reminded Pi of the cruel cook. And when he saw Zebra, it reminded him of peaceful Japanese man and when he saw the female monkey who seemed to have lost its baby , he saw his mom in that mother monkey?? So the second story was true but Pi makes up another story and ties all the human characters to their animal counterparts which is what I like to believe.

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Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 11 months ago. Active 8 years, 6 months ago. Viewed k times. Is my thinking correct? Improve this question. Milan Aggarwal Milan Aggarwal 2 2 gold badges 5 5 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. At the end Pi says: "And so it goes with God. So the two stories tell us something about God, instead of something about God's opinion on the stories.

Geerten: So the two stories tell us something about God. Can you elaborate on the statement? Even I do agree with the OP that the character meant that the first story went with God , that is with truth or belief.

Any reason you think otherwise? You can read screenrant. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. In his explanation, the narrator also matches each animal to its real-life equivalent: zebra is the Buddhist guy hyena is the cook orangutan is the narrator's mother tiger is the narrator himself, or more specifically, his animal nature, which was drawn out by the ordeal.

Improve this answer. Shiz Z. On the contrary, I can argue meaning of "even God chose the first story" is that the incidents with the animals actually happened and logically Pi must have been dead in that boat; but even God had other things in mind and let him survive and tell others the impossible story!

So you see all these opinions are personal opinions No confirm answer can be given to it, because the story was meant for such ending! I didn't understand after watching the film how he would make the guy believe in God, but this answer explains it perfectly. I found some great piece of lines in the web : Now for the BIG question: Which version do you believe?

This is what made a brilliant contribution for the success of the movie. In this interview he speaks: Reality isn't just "out there", like some block of cement: reality is an interpretation. So please dont try to analyze, just enjoy the story as it is. Some hints the author gave himself too in the same interview: What I was trying to do in this book was try and discuss how we interpret reality - most secular readers will read the book and say 'Ah, okay, there's one story told and actually something else happened, and Pi 'invented' this other story to pass the time, or make his reality bearable.

But at the end, no confirmed answer is there. Community Bot 1. Mistu4u Mistu4u Nice quotes from the author. I have read the book several times, and it reads as a parable. It isn't a story about a tiger or no-tiger as much as it is a story about perception. The point is not to choose the "real" story from these two, but to realize that in your own life you choose your own story.

MaryJoFinch, exactly. We should go by the theme. His father intervenes and angrily scolds him by saying that the Tiger is a wild animal and is not be taken as a friend.

He proves his point by teaching Pi a valuable lesson by forcing him to witness the tiger killing a goat. But his father warns him that Pi needs to take a secular outlook when it comes to religion. Pi, now aged 16 Suraj Sharma is a little upset after he learns that his father decides to close the zoo and sell them in Canada where they will be migrating, as that requires bidding farewell to his newly-met girlfriend Anandi.

The Patel family books a passage with their animals aboard a Japanese freighter named Tsimtsum. One night, the ship encounters a heavy storm over the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean as a result of which the boat begins to sink while Pi is marvelling at the storm on the deck. On realizing that the ship is sinking, Pi tries to search his family, but a crew member throws him onto a lifeboat where he watches helplessly as the ship sinks, killing his family and its crew.

After the storm has subsided, Pi wakes up finding a zebra and a resourceful orangutan aboard the lifeboat. Suddenly, a spotted hyena emerges from the tarp covering half of the lifeboat and snaps at Pi, forcing him to retreat to the other side of the lifeboat. Over the next few days, Pi learns to adjust life on the lifeboat by finding emergency food and water rations and building a small tethered raft from the flotation vests to maintain a safe distance from the tiger.

He does this by learning how to fish to feed Richard Parker and him as well despite his moral code for being a vegetarian. Pi also develops a sentimentality for the tiger by helping him back onto the boat after the tiger had jumped into the ocean for hunting some fish and was on the verge of drowning. One night, a humpback whale breaches near the boat, causing Pi to lose his supplies and his getting his raft destroyed. After several weeks and nearly at the end of the strength, Pi and Richard Parker reach a floating island of edible plants and interconnected trees.

It is a lush jungle full of freshwater pools and has a large population of meerkats which works to both their advantage as they use this opportunity to eat and drink freely, thereby regaining their strength.

He and Richard Parker leave the next day. Pi while at the end of his strength is made to watch Richard Parker who disappears into the jungle without even acknowledging him.