Only "drifting" can't save one's "life"

Wade 2022-04-23 07:01:03

"I totally disregarded my father's wishes, even disobeyed my father's orders, and completely disobeyed my mother's pleas and the dissuasion of my friends. This nature of mine seems to be doomed to my unfortunate fate in the future" - "Robinson Crusoe" - —Another adventure saga we are familiar with. Before the beginning of "Drifting", the two protagonists seem to be in the same situation: they are in the upper class of their own society, have conflicting values ​​with their father, are relatively close to their mother but have no real spiritual support, have friends but are not enough to make themselves firm ... So, the word "psychological escape" jumped out, and this word is also the first key to interpret the question of "The Fantastic Drifting of the Young Pi"-why is it only "Pi" who survived after the storm and the stormy sea? (The same is true of Robinson) - When people cannot be recognized in the world around them, they will "psychologically escape" from the crowd and enjoy their own spiritual world. "The Fantasy Drifting of Pi" is to give "Pi" a chance, allowing him to toss as much as he likes. Since it is a tour of the inner world, we can boldly speculate on the abstraction that we can endure for this "pie" who has fantastic ideas all day long, and there may be no such thing as his parents and brothers at all in his departure! - It doesn't matter at all. On the contrary, when "Pi" was swept into the water by the big waves and saw the cargo ship sinking, accompanied by panic, his heart should be a kind of pleasure of gaining freedom and being free from bondage, and the sinking cargo ship was like a cage. The conflict of reality and all obstacles and denials" are all dragged into the seabed. Of course, "Pai"'s cry on the ocean, the cry to his parents and elder brothers, is also to stay away from relatives - from the bottom of his heart, he really misses. And just like that, "The Fantastic Drifting of Pi" began.
The ocean is so big, like a person's inner world without boundaries, once he escaped from the bondage and was released, Fang Jue panicked and lost his course. "Pie" began to drift like duckweed - the end could not be predicted, and then came the fear. Most of the people who know the fear are those who are delicate and emotional. "Pai"'s "multiple thinking" allows all the wild ideas and emotions in his mind to be staged in the ocean: those emotions are like "struggling" like thunder and lightning, "resistance" like riding the wind and waves, like still water "A little quiet" like a mirror, "many bizarre" like the fluorescent world, "self-absorbed madness" like wandering on a man-eating island... This "struggle", "resistance", "a little quiet", "many bizarre", " Selfless madness" all comes from passion, and this passion all comes from youth, so there is the sentence we are accustomed to: "Everyone has a drifting memory in their hearts". Therefore, those who can start at a young age have the backside of "unfortunate" full of the envy of the world.
The reality is that every appearance of beautiful pictures in "The Fantastic Drifting of Young Pi", while bringing us visual shocks, aggravates the fear of "Pi" again and again. Have you ever thought that he is in a quiet ocean that does not touch the sky above and the ground below. The more frightened, the more need to find a partner, so the zebra jumped on the boat and broke his leg, the gorilla came in depression on the banana, the hyena was hiding under the tent, and the "pie" pulled the tiger willingly or unwillingly. Ship... well, I don't want to think why these animals, which are on the bottom of the cargo ship and locked in cages, escaped. This can only admire the imagination of "Pi". Next, among these "little friends", "The Fantasy Drifting of Youth Pie" tells us the bloody "social survival" rule: in a chaotic scene, it is difficult for partners from different worlds to reach an effective consensus, even if Survivors, including "Pie", have no other choice but to have a little sympathy in their hearts due to their nature and conflict of interests. As a result, the hounds took advantage of the danger of people to take the initiative to attack and break them down. The zebra was unwilling to leave, and the orangutan revealed despair in its anger. "Pai" fled the scene and watched the fire from the other side. With the mantis catching the cicada and the oriole behind, the tiger's last surprise attack caught the hyena off guard. Obviously, the ultimate winner of this battle was the tiger. So far, only Tiger and Pie remain on board.
"The Fantastic Drifting of the Youth Pie" tells two versions of the story, whether it is a tiger or a cook, the real "strong" and the temporary "weak" began to confront each other, and the situation made them tolerate each other's existence. It gradually developed into mutual dependence, and even when the tiger was dying, "Pai" and it cuddled with each other. If the tiger is a human, its heart should be softened. If the tiger is a tiger, it should feel a little warm when it is dying, just like it has just come to the world and snuggled up to its mother tiger, it should be a familiar taste. After landing on the shore, the tiger stopped for a while, and burrowed into the woods without looking back. How many people regret it. But why did the tiger turn back? If the tiger is abstracted as a "bad person's quality", even if he feels the warmth of human affection, he may not let go of his murderous nature, and for him, he is already grateful for the fact that he has not attacked the party; if the tiger is abstracted as " "Fear" and "Pai" have already conquered fear in "rafting", and now they have landed on the shore, there is no reason for fear to turn back.

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Life of Pi quotes

  • Adult Pi Patel: So which story do you prefer?

    Writer: The one with the tiger. That's the better story.

    Adult Pi Patel: Thank you. And so it goes with God.

    Writer: [smiles] It's an amazing story.

  • Writer: [reading off the report] Mr. Patel's is an astounding story, courage and endurance unparalleled in the history of ship-wrecks. Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.