Review: Life of Pi
Life of Pi is an extraordinarily beautiful tale of a young shipwreck survivor on a lifeboat with a tiger named Richard Parker. If this sounds silly, it is to author Yann Martel’s credit that the feel this story has is far from it.
That’s not to say that there isn’t a healthy dollop of humor throughout the novel’s pages. At a very young age Pi witnesses his parents confronted with a Muslim imam, a Catholic priest and a Hindu pandit on the streets of Pondicherry, India, there to discuss their son’s religious studies. Poignant commentary on interfaith dialogue aside, the way these three come to realize that Pi has been searching for God via three different religions reads like a barroom joke. Later, while contemplating how best to handle his predicament at sea, Pi soberly lists his Plans Number One through Seven in such a calm, rational manner as to force the reader into chuckling over the ridiculousness of the predicament.
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