Saleh Eyadah Eyadah থেকে Kalal Majara, Punjab 147203, India
I always have wanted to read this book, but somehow ended up with not reading it. Finally, I got a opportunity to read this book and I was already excited before I started reading this. Honestly, this book was probably one of the best I have read in my life including Japanese and English literature. This story is about a man's childhood whose name of Piscine Molitor Patel. Piscine is named after a swimming pool and he makes himself a nickname, "Pi" because he was often mistakenly called "Pissing Patel". His family owns a zoo where they have many animals. At zoo, Pi and his brother are taught a lesson in life by his father. Pi's father shows a Bengal tiger eating ghost inside the cage. This lesson teaches Pi that in life there are many things that he must follow. I was also amazed by Pi because even though he was very young, he started to practice three religions, Hinduism, Islam and Christianity and tries to state the definition of the God. The reason I love this book is because of the fantasy illustrated in this book and the theme that I think exist in this book. The plot where Pi and the Bengal Tiger, Richard Parker survive together on the small boat is the scene I liked the best because generally, if a tiger sees a human, they would eat human because for tigers, humans are food. However, Richard Parker does not eat Pi although Richard Parker has eaten other animals on the boat. Pi delivers fish and water to Richard Parker so that Richard would not eat him. This relationship of a boy and a tiger is somewhat interesting because I felt there was something that the author wanted to tell us. I felt that the author, Yann Martel wanted to tell us that animals and humans can live together and thus they must coexist.
I really like Banks's natural writing style, used here throughout several intertwined short stories. It was interesting to watch the main character change and grow throughout the book. This is a book I come back to again and again. The story about the woman battling cancer is particularly affecting, especially since it is entitled "You Could Be Anyone" and written in the 2nd person, putting the reader in her place.