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Who Is Rirhard Packer's Life In The Real World
Richard Parker is a Royal Bengal tiger with whom Pi shares his lifeboat.Weighing 450 pounds and about nine feet long,he kills the hyena on the lifeboat and the blind cannibal.He is a animal though he has a human name.But in the first,he saves pi twice.At the beginning of the story,Pi is afraid of Richard Parker.And then he tames him,they essential companionship.Richard Parker goes alone when they reach land.
When Pi retells the entire story to two representatives of the Japanese Ministry of Transport searching for the cause of the sinking, they express deep disbelief, so he offers them a second story, far more mundane but believable story that parallels the first one. They can choose to believe the more fantastical first one despite its seeming irrationality and its necessary leap of faith, or they can accept the second, far more rational version, more heavily grounded in our everyday experiences.

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