sam varma

all you bitches cant understand anything! the tiger was pi in the second story of the movie which pi himself made up for the interviewers!

Mar 21 - 07:54 AM

Donna Youghn Eshel

Pi is the tiger. The tiger is the adversity of life. Pi learns about life from his perils at sea. When he reaches shore he transitions from boy to his manhood. the tiger never looks back but to the future straight into the jungle, which is Pi's future. The jungle represnets his new world and life somewhere other than India. Pi is crying for his losses his old life, India his parents and the innocent boy he left behind,and may be his faith in God.

Mar 16 - 07:53 AM

Angy Riad

I believe the tiger and Pi are both Pi. The tigre inside of Pi is at first resistant and rebellious to continue and fight for life, and the other religious and soul searching pi tries to find a way to get the tigre and him to work together. As for the weeping from the tiger leaving.. He didn't need the tigre anymore, the tigre was good and no longer hesitates, he is ready to live again in his habitat (or Pi in a civilized city again)

Mar 11 - 11:30 AM

William Renaud

(This only works if you take the animal story as total allegorical invention on Pi's part) Break it down further. The Pi on the boat is that internal observer that we all have inside of us. That objective self that can step back and comment on what we are experiencing. Call it a neo-Freudian superego. He steps back mentally and lets his body become subsumed in his animal/instinctual self. Look at the perfect mimicary between the tiger's physical condition and Pi's.

In the end God is a question that Pi leaves you with. His survival is miraculous so the argument for "GOD" intervening is weighted.

But always remember that BOTH stories are complete works of fiction.

Mar 6 - 09:24 PM

Daivik Patel

I believe Pi is both the boy and the tiger. In the movie, after the first time you see the tiger in the zoo, you only see the tiger while Pi is trying to survive. Coming onto the boat in the life buoy during the storm, killing the hyena after he kills the other two, trying to catch fish, etc.

The tiger is his inner animal instinct, the portion of him that decides between fight or flight.

Feb 25 - 10:53 PM

Austin Ritter

God is my guess.

Feb 21 - 09:59 PM