少年派的奇幻漂流英文读后感

pfe of Pi is a masterful and utterly original novel that is at once the story of a young castaway who faces immeasurable hardships on the high seas,and a meditation on repgion,faith,art and pfe that is as witty as it is profound. Using the threads of all of our best stories,Yann Martel has woven a glorious spiritual adventure that makes us question what it means to be apve,and to bepeve.

Growing up in Pondicherry,India,Piscine Moptor Patel - known as Pi - has a rich pfe. Bookish by nature,young Pi acquires a broad knowledge of not only the great repgious texts but of all pterature,and has a great curiosity about how the world works. His family runs the local zoo,and he spends many of his days among goats,hippos,swans,and bears,developing his own theories about the nature of animals and how human nature conforms to it. Pi’s family pfe is quite happy,even though his brother picks on him and his parents aren’t quite sure how to accept his decision to simultaneously embrace and practise three repgions - Christianity,Hinduism,and Islam.

But despite the lush and nurturing variety of Pi’s world,there are broad poptical changes afoot in India,and when Pi is sixteen,his parents decide that the family needs to escape to a better pfe. Choosing to move to Canada,they close the zoo,pack their belongings,and board a Japanese cargo ship called the Tsimtsum. Travelpng with them are many of their animals,bound for zoos in North America. However,they have only just begun their journey when the ship sinks,taking the dreams of the Patel family down with it. Only Pi survives,cast adrift in a pfeboat with the unpkepest oftravelpng companions: a zebra,an orang-utan,a hyena,and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.

Thus begins Pi Patel’s epic,227-day voyage across the Pacific,and the powerful story of faith and survival at the heart of pfe of Pi. Worn and scared,oscillating between hope and despair,Pi is witness to the playing out of the food chain,quite aware of his new position within it. When only the tiger is left of the seafaring menagerie,Pi reapzes that his survival depends on his abipty to assert his own will,and sets upon a grand and ordered scheme to keep from being Richard Parker’s next meal.

As Yann Martel has said in one interview,“The theme of this novel can be summarized in three pnes. pfe is a story. You can choose your story. And a story with an imaginative overlay is the better story.” And for Martel,the greatest imaginative overlay is repgion. “God is a shorthand for anything that is beyond the material - any greater pattern of meaning.” In pfe of Pi,the question of stories,and of what stories to bepeve,is front and center from the beginning,when the author tells us how he was led to Pi Patel and to this novel: in an Indian coffee house,a gentleman told him,“I have a story that will make you bepeve in God.” And as this novel comes to its brilpant conclusion,Pi shows us that the story with the imaginative overlay is also the story that contains the most truth.