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I think it’s probably most likely that the tiger (Richard Parker) is meant as a symbol, a metphorical embodiment of the fear that Pi needs to overcome to survive. In the end, the Japanese guys liken Pi to the tiger. I think it’s more likely that the tiger is the fear that Pi needs to “tame” and “train” and “fight” and that when he is finally on land in Mexico, that the “tiger” of “fear” runs away because he no longer needs that fear to survive.
I have a question. Pi explains another version of the book in the end. Was this just meant for his interviewers or to say that Pi made up the whole second part of the book? I mean the stories were intertwined and the island seemed fictional. Also what are the chances of two blind men meeting in the middle of the ocean or of a boy with no training, train a tiger on a life boat?
Maybe because it isn’t his “life”, but whether or not he gets to keep living?
I have a question about the title – why “Life of Pi” and not “THE Life of Pi”?