Dear readers! Today I'm going to comment some the most meaningful passages or sentenses from the book.
1. "Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher."
The life on the boat isn't simple, it is deprived of everything. The stakes are too significant - either life or death. The life in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has no luxury, faced with numerous physical dangers. And Pi compare it with the endgame in chess, when the most of the game has been played out and the majority of the chess pieces knocked off the board. Similarly, it that time some animals were alredy died, someone remained alive, still ready to try to survive, because the game isn't finished yet.
2. "The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar."
Pi said these words when his hardships were on the verge of despair. In that moment he understood that difficulties make his character even stronger. His mind is desperately trying to save the physical reality of the continued existence of the lifeboat, and so he soars into the realm of fantasy. The worse situation, the more the imagination harder to achive the goal. The only possibility to survive is the faith and imagination. And he proved that it was effective.
3. “Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.”
It's hard to stay calm when you think of the people who are not alive anymore. But thoughts can show that people whom you still love unconsciously, in dreams. Even if you firstly think that it makes hurt you, then you understand that your heart feels happy, it's such a contradiction.
4. “You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
Everybody has troubles sometimes, but you musn't dwell on it. You should remember that it's such a happiness to see, to hear, to feel, to breath. And it's rediculous to waste it on grumbling that the life isn't ideal. You need just try to do the best and enjoy the life whatever it is.
5. “The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?
Doesn't that make life a story?”
All of us see the life as what to see. Some people pay attention to the troubles, but somebody see only bright and exciting moments. Everything depends on the person and the same situation can be treated completely different by different people.
6. “You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.”
This quote shows the power Pi's mind has on how he perceives his situation. Life in general is determined more by a persons psyche than anything else. And sometimes strong emotions helps to understand it.
7. “These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.”
Firstly you should be honest with yourself inside, you should care your inside world. There are some people who are seems like religious, who go to church,and so on and so forth, but only for show, but they are empty inside, evil and selfish.
1. "Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher."
The life on the boat isn't simple, it is deprived of everything. The stakes are too significant - either life or death. The life in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has no luxury, faced with numerous physical dangers. And Pi compare it with the endgame in chess, when the most of the game has been played out and the majority of the chess pieces knocked off the board. Similarly, it that time some animals were alredy died, someone remained alive, still ready to try to survive, because the game isn't finished yet.
2. "The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar."
Pi said these words when his hardships were on the verge of despair. In that moment he understood that difficulties make his character even stronger. His mind is desperately trying to save the physical reality of the continued existence of the lifeboat, and so he soars into the realm of fantasy. The worse situation, the more the imagination harder to achive the goal. The only possibility to survive is the faith and imagination. And he proved that it was effective.
3. “Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.”
It's hard to stay calm when you think of the people who are not alive anymore. But thoughts can show that people whom you still love unconsciously, in dreams. Even if you firstly think that it makes hurt you, then you understand that your heart feels happy, it's such a contradiction.
4. “You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
Everybody has troubles sometimes, but you musn't dwell on it. You should remember that it's such a happiness to see, to hear, to feel, to breath. And it's rediculous to waste it on grumbling that the life isn't ideal. You need just try to do the best and enjoy the life whatever it is.
5. “The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?
Doesn't that make life a story?”
All of us see the life as what to see. Some people pay attention to the troubles, but somebody see only bright and exciting moments. Everything depends on the person and the same situation can be treated completely different by different people.
6. “You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.”
This quote shows the power Pi's mind has on how he perceives his situation. Life in general is determined more by a persons psyche than anything else. And sometimes strong emotions helps to understand it.
7. “These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.”
Firstly you should be honest with yourself inside, you should care your inside world. There are some people who are seems like religious, who go to church,and so on and so forth, but only for show, but they are empty inside, evil and selfish.