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| from goodreads.com |
Surviving alone in the vast ocean for almost a year after a
ship-wreck is almost unimaginable and hopeless, but to be trapped in a lifeboat
with a 450-pound Bengal tiger? Forget it.
If something seems impossible, forget it...not. This is the theme of Yann Martel’s novel, “Life
of Pi”.
The book draws an almost fine line between an orthodox and
personal, covert and overt idea of the universality of religion, or at least of
one’s own faith.
The idea of being ambushed in a boat with a tiger may seem comical
and overdramatic. But it is plausible.
Pi, short for Piscine, practices Hinduism, Christianity and
Muslim all at the same time amid the seemingly polarities of the religions. His
family owns a zoo but decides to migrate in Canada for a greener future, India
that time was under an economic crisis. And so they, together with their
animals, travelled along the Pacific Ocean but the ship wrecked which left Pi,
Richard Parker (the tiger), an orang-utan, a vulture and a zebra as the
survivors. Richard Parker devoured each animal as the days passed.
The novel depicts the physical, emotional and spiritual
misfortunes of Pi and how he has survived each passing day, of being orphaned
and of befriending Richard Parker.
The story may end with a predictable scene: Richard Parker
has not devoured Pi, they survived and lived happily ever after but the moral
is sharply intertwined along the anecdote—the power of believing and having
faith in the Almighty (or whatever name you want to call that Force).
The book deserves a perfect score in Goodreads. #
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects," Albert Einstein.
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