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Life Of Pi Dialectical Journal

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Sense after reading "life of Pi" Pi is a teenager born in India and at the same time believing in Christianity, Islam and Hinduism. His father runs a zoo, so he knows the habits of animals. Frankly speaking, the beginning of this story is not attractive, mixed with a religious belief in a teenager's growth experience. Then the story officially entered into the "fantasy draft". Pi family take boat to move to Canada with their animals, Pi's father wanted to bring the animals to a foreign country in order to sell a good price. However, their family went through a shipwreck like a Titanic, except for Pi, all of the people were gone. Pi survived on the cover of the lifeboat; there was also a hyena, a broken zebra, a female orangutan, and an adult …show more content…

Corresponding: sailor is zebra, cook is hyena, orangutan is the mother, and Pi himself is a tiger. Maybe you cannot accept the second cruel story, but when the author tells the story of the first time has hinted us, the second story is really happened. In this way, we know that the first story is a realistic metaphor, it contains two layers: one is the metaphor of the real event; the second is through their own sentiment and sublimation of the metaphor for human nature thinking, and this second layer is the core of this book. The wonderful thing about this book is that everyone will feel very complicated after reading it, There are many feelings but do not know where to start. According to my memory, probably can be divided into several layers. The first layer is the fact that what the truth is. Is the shipwreck a reality? Is the Bengal Tiger a reality? Because most of the time, we cannot personally witness the facts, so the fact that have to rely on the description of others. It is also because of this, when a person began to narrate, he has been fabricated. Perhaps, the fabricated the word is too heavy, so then he has been created. In addition, when the creation of the individual begins, it is far from the truth, because humankind does not create the truth itself. You can be attributed to God, or that fate, but should not be human …show more content…

That is to say, each of us is with a pair of colored eyes to understand the world, you can be based on intelligence, that is, rational to look at this world, can also be based on the so-called "love", "moral" to look at the world, these two methods itself is not true and false. In other words, these two methods are true, or are false, but these two methods are good or bad, what is a good way to look at the world? The author thinks that each of us has given the answer to the choice of the two stories. There is a saying: "Puzzled intelligence, but it is the existence and ultimate goal of trust." What is the meaning of this sentence? Meaning that when you choose to believe in the

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