Category Archives: LITERATURE

Just realizing now that the italicized chapters are those of author intrusion; Martel perhaps, as narrator, rightly in the future, looking back at his first meetings with the character, Pi. Maybe close reading is not close enough, or too close … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Not that I would take a novelist's opinion on religion any more as fact than I do some movie star's slant on politics, when there is a seed of thought to ponder, a different perspective, it's always an added bonus … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I love it; the comparisons Pi is coming up with to get his head around the Catholic God and in particular, the Son, Jesus: This Son is a god who spent most of His time telling stories, talking. This Son … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Martel has foreshadowed religion as a topic that would be considered by Pi, by his comparing it to zoos, and in subtle ways that certainly led to his admission that religion is indeed important to him, and Hinduism formed his … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There are interesting little tidbits of thought that Martel drops through his story that seem to have some special importance, that relate to man’s questioning of life, yet are put in a stark, interesting way. Here, Pi has just listened … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Exactly that; close reading that strings phrases together to digest them in bites like appetizers. It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaller as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This reverts back to Kundera’s (and I have a feeling that Kundera may be with me for life) theory on recurrence, and in particular, on Karenin’s joie de vivre being dependent upon repetition: For that is what animals are, conservative, … Continue reading → Continue reading →