| This isn't what the show means at all. |
| Last Edit: oddone 01:08 am EDT 05/11/23 |
| Posted by: oddone 01:07 am EDT 05/11/23 |
| In reply to: re: Age Level for Life of Pi - dramedy 03:50 pm EDT 05/10/23 |
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"And when it is revealed what the animals represent, that might be a little too much but it might go over his head."
The whole point of Life of Pi is that the animals DON'T "represent" anything else. There isn't "the truth" and then "the false but more fun animal version." Rather, there are different ways to tell a story about the same event, and the point is that no one story is necessarily "truer" than others. What is more, this whole idea - multiple stories about the same event, where we can't actually be sure what is true and what isn't - is itself a metaphor for faith.
I'll admit this is much, MUCH clearer in the novel, but if you come away from this piece thinking the animals are meant to simply stand in for "what really happened," then you're missing the whole point. We don't actually know at the end "what really happened." We may choose to believe one story or the other, but we don't know. |
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