![]() That story involves the 227 days that the 15-year-old spends in a lifeboat. ![]() In an author’s note after the title page, the novel’s narrator - maybe a fictional “Yann Martel,” maybe not he’s never named - is initially told that the story of a shattering event in Pi’s life “will make you believe in God.” A page later, after having exhaustively interviewed a middle-aged Pi, the narrator himself writes that it was “a story to make you believe in God.” Maybe Pi is a stand-in for the individual human spirit that, once started, has no end. It is also, as Piscine makes clear at school, the same word as the number in mathematics that is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, 3.14159…… and on into infinity. ![]() Martel names his central character Pi, a nickname that Piscine Molitor Patel gives himself to avoid being called Pissing by his classmates. ![]() Maybe there are deep levels of allegory to the book. I finished “The Life of Pi” by Yann Martel a couple days ago, and I’m still not sure how to take it. ![]()
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