tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633636591343677666.post8115716218074209072..comments2023-12-11T09:19:08.527-06:00Comments on A New Beginning: Life of Pi: The Mystical IslandA. K. K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11214225448286517434noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633636591343677666.post-88961413241532874122014-02-27T18:15:02.041-06:002014-02-27T18:15:02.041-06:00I think people are represent by meerkats because o...I think people are represent by meerkats because one of the avatars of Vishnu is a boar. There is already a strong pop culture connection between these two animals in the minds of many thanks to The Lion King. So that choice of animal is a further clue that the island is indeed Vishnu. AKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02788622059478306437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633636591343677666.post-21613877475970085182013-07-17T14:11:31.796-05:002013-07-17T14:11:31.796-05:00not only the movie is beautiful, your interpretati...not only the movie is beautiful, your interpretation is too. i am really amazed.Lu.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09786506771096699538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633636591343677666.post-1339180753020077422013-06-04T16:58:35.396-05:002013-06-04T16:58:35.396-05:00It can be a possible reason of using the metaphor ...It can be a possible reason of using the metaphor of lord Vishnu symbolically for the island which also represents a vital part of our life n its importance.Somethings should always be left as it is, for its good cause.It anyhow showed the matured imaginations of PIwho related it to his very existence.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00395244393252130709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633636591343677666.post-38425661680821210042013-04-24T22:40:38.002-05:002013-04-24T22:40:38.002-05:00I think, in the book the auther had a much more si...I think, in the book the auther had a much more simpler aim in mind. You see upto this point in the book we tend to take the events at face value. They could have happened. But the carnivorous island, human teeth in the fruit that to, a separate tooth hidden in each fruit-now these events start to seem so implausible so much so that we begin to doubt pi as the "reliable narrator". Is he slowly losing his mind? Hallucinations? Cut to the end of the story-we are now aware of two different events-one with the tiger and one without! Now if you do choose to belive the one with the tiger, you will need to accept the events surrounding the island as well. And that requires the leap of faith that the author intended!!!Megha's delicacieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06729413392245049025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633636591343677666.post-37771901408084779682013-03-20T00:40:13.294-05:002013-03-20T00:40:13.294-05:00bhakkk sale bhakkk sale Swapnil Dandgvhalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09817858633504504495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633636591343677666.post-21677076894930348332013-03-20T00:36:57.678-05:002013-03-20T00:36:57.678-05:00GreenInkLife well said....earlier i was also think...GreenInkLife well said....earlier i was also thinking like the blogger,but yours also make sense. <br />Aditya Singhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11753949516920891263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633636591343677666.post-76631555794201935962013-03-16T02:57:36.935-05:002013-03-16T02:57:36.935-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.GreenInkLifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12931264585573456800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633636591343677666.post-87535982930234629812013-03-16T02:52:55.407-05:002013-03-16T02:52:55.407-05:00An additional thought to offer on this island meta...An additional thought to offer on this island metaphor:<br />Early in the movie, Pi asks the girl he loves about the lotus blossom she shapes with her dance and the discussion evolves into a comment about the lotus blossom in the forest. She looks at Pi rather knowingly as she knows the imagery of lotus blossom better than he does. Pi is still too innocent to understand so she doesn't enlighten him. In feminist theory this lotus is symbolic womb imagery. Later, on the island, shaped like a woman, Pi peels open the lotus blossom...in the middle of a forest. The parallel imagery is striking in that in the "womb" of the island, Pi loses his innocence and realizes that he cannot step out of the stream of life and just remain on the island (or in the comfort of the womb). His "twin" has stayed on the island and had died--leaving behind a tooth. He must leave the island/the mother's womb to be (re)born. He leaves the island and takes with him sustenance from the mother's body to live. This imagery works on multiple levels with Hindu and Christian symbolism as well as with the "coming of age" (birthing of a man from a boy) nature of the story. GreenInkLifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12931264585573456800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633636591343677666.post-80397164679168624902013-03-14T13:40:01.209-05:002013-03-14T13:40:01.209-05:00My dear Friend You have read my mind! Thats exactl...My dear Friend You have read my mind! Thats exactly( I literally mean word by word ) what I had in my mind!<br /><br />also one more explanation could be this-<br /><br />The Island was carnivorous and adaptive and if a person came to this island a long time ago it ate him/her and could have adopted the shape of a human being ( but its a unrealistic scientific approach)pranjal22janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849135213287323888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633636591343677666.post-30608199676257288342013-03-14T13:39:40.972-05:002013-03-14T13:39:40.972-05:00My dear Friend You have read my mind! Thats exactl...My dear Friend You have read my mind! Thats exactly( I literally mean word by word ) what I had in my mind!<br /><br />also one more explanation could be this-<br /><br />The Island was carnivorous and adaptive and if a person came to this island a long time ago it ate him/her and could have adopted the shape of a human being ( but its a unrealistic scientific approach)pranjal22janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849135213287323888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633636591343677666.post-10476439211858628732013-03-07T09:44:55.635-06:002013-03-07T09:44:55.635-06:00her mother died and the sharks have eaten her corp...her mother died and the sharks have eaten her corpse. i still stick to the blogger metaphor :)Fahrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04751528519968062663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633636591343677666.post-53421107837120486122013-01-21T18:06:43.542-06:002013-01-21T18:06:43.542-06:00The island was shaped as a woman and was Pi's ...The island was shaped as a woman and was Pi's way of mentally coping with have to eat the flesh of his own mother. The meercats represent maggots, and then he finds a human tooth which cannot be eaten.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17153693182912689588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633636591343677666.post-62193565121152770682013-01-04T23:44:58.725-06:002013-01-04T23:44:58.725-06:00Dear blogger, I must congratulate you for the dept...Dear blogger, I must congratulate you for the depth of reasoning and also your attention to detail while watching this movie..You have directed a reader like myself to a very thoughtful interpretation as I thought that only I saw the island as a floating Man, when Pi decided to stock up the goodies from there and move on from it, in a zoomed out perspective shot of the given island...My quest to this mystery came to a halt today because of your blog...Thank you for enlightening seekers with the treasures you have found, free of cost..God Bless.Croonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15906223360857637444noreply@blogger.com