Life Of Pi

Discussion -Tuesday, April 15, 6:00PM

 

 I enjoyed this magical tale, which offers an interesting thought: If the truth doesn’t make a good story, maybe you should invent a better one – one with fantastical impossibilities, metaphorical beauty, and deeper meaning than the original story. At least that’s what I walked away with.
Without spoiling the story for anyone, Life of Pi for me, is about a young boy’s struggle to make sense of a horrific set of events. Raised in a zoo in a remote Indian city called “Pondicerry”, Pi (a word based on a mathematical impossibility) is blessed with a colorful imagination and an ability to spin profound stories. This ability, and his love for God, proves to be his salvation. The ending of the story, and its meaning, it really left to the reader to decipher, and our book club was divided in opinion on that issue.
However, we all agreed that it was a beautiful, hopeful story. What resonates the most with me was the chapter in which Pi decides to secretly follow three different religions – Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam – simultaneously. When he is confronted by all three religious elders and told that he cannot worshop in all three religions, that he must choose, Pi’s response is:
“I just want to love God.”

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