life of pi

Life of pi is a novel by Yann Martel 

Life of pi is also an adopted movie directed by Ang Lee.

There is a protagonist named 'Piscine Molitor' who named himself as Pi Patel when he was a child he learned from his father that Animals are Animals he should not be in infancy that they are your friend, they can make you their food.

Pi was believing in many religions, his father was not that much religious like him and the root of his religious thinking was coming from his mother with the myths of Lord Vishnu.

By the storm in the sea, Pi lost his family and was having some animals only because of hunger animals eat each other and Richard Parker (A Bengal tiger remains with Pi) 

After survival two journalists asked to Pi about his journey and he told what was actually there but it was not believable to other person except Pi then,

 Pi supplies this alternative version of his journey, that aboard the lifeboat with him were his mother, the French cook from the ship, and a crewman. The crewman had a badly broken leg and the cook insisted on amputating it, gaining the cooperation of both Pi and Pi's mother. After the amputation, the crewman died a slow and painful death. Then the cook revealed that the only reason he amputated the leg was to use it for bait. Pi's mother, outraged and sickened by the act, railed against the cook, especially when he began to eat the crewman, which Pi insists neither he nor his mother took part in. Pi's mother and the cook quarreled, but they eventually became relatively civil shipmates. The turning point came when a turtle escaped capture and the cook hit Pi. Pi's mother then became violent towards the cook and directed Pi to leave the lifeboat for a raft that was tethered to the lifeboat. Pi watched as the cook decapitated his mother and threw the severed head to Pi on the raft. In the end, Pi stabbed the cook to death.

Two things are much significant here in the movie:

                                                                

1. The tiger and 

 2. Island.

Significance of the tiger: In our world, there are many things that man cannot believe and if one is believing others will tell him that it is very dangerous.

 Here in the novel tiger can be considered as God that even if you are having faith for the God simply, your society would teach you to keep fear of God.

Another is science that who is having less knowledge of science will tell you to stay away from it.

- About the matter of science and religion you have to discover your own knowledge and after having true knowledge we would have no need to be afraid of them as Pi deals with Richard Parker in the novel.

Significance of an Island : 

Island is a symbol of things which are coming without any affords. There is one sentence by Gujarati poet Kalapi,  "પોષતું તે મારતું, શું એ ક્રમ નથી કુદરતી?" that means anything which is coming without any afford will take itself away one day.