"It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse."
Wow. The end of this book has thrown me for a loop. So, Pi, gets shipwrecked and he gets stuck with a Bengal Tiger on his life boat. The whole book is about how he deals with this. It's amazing. But then at the end, when Pi is telling his story to some insurance types of guys, they say they don't believe him and that he needs to tell them the truth. He says fine I'll tell you a story you will believe even though it's not the truth. And so he tells a shorter story where the animals he is stuck with are actually people. Like, the zebra is a Japanese sailor, the hyena is the french cook, the orangutan is his mother and he is the Bengal tiger. And the way he tells it, it is exactly the same way things happen, just with the people in place of the animals. And now I don't know what to think. I mean the core of me really believes it was the people. That his way of dealing with it was to turn these people into animals. Plus, a few times in the book, he claims he acted animalistic. And maybe him seeing himself split off as the bengal tiger versus the human part of himself helps him cope with some of the things he had to do. But then another part of me is calling the core part of me a disbeliever and too logical. But truly, I really do think it was the people. And that makes it so much sadder. I'm not really sure how to deal with it. It just makes so much more sense with the people. And it would make sense for Pi to rationalize it that way. IT was a really good book. An amazing story. It is supposed to have religious importance but I didn't pay much attention to it. I liked this book a lot, and I feel like the next time I read it I will pick up on a lot more.
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