killing of the cook to save his own life. It is easy to believe that Pi, a sensitive boy with a religious imagination, had to invent this myth to bear, psychologically, the pain of his trials ...

“Life of Pi” by Yann Martel ... In the first part of the story, readers follow Pi as he discovers Christianity and Islam, as well as his native religion, Hinduism. The first part took up ...

Lifeboat scene pits solitude against loneliness In some ways%2C Pi and Richard ... educated middle class, religion is sort of replaced by art. If you want to understand life, you don't pray ...

In his recent Calendar article on religiously tinged films [“Faith Makes a Hollywood Comeback,” Dec. 30], critic Stephen Farber singles out Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi,” based on the like ...

Hiran Abeysekera, and Fred Davis, Scarlet Wilderink, Andrew Wilson operating tiger Richard Parker, 'Life ... you a religious man Mr. Okamoto?,” the hospitalized, still traumatized Pi asks ...

Like the original novel, the play touches on profound issues of religion versus spirituality, man versus nature, and the instinct for survival. “The Life of Pi” originated as a novel by ...

With Life of Pi, Lee takes on a not-so-crouching ... Otherwise, Lee takes the best from Martell's novel and blends religion and zoology (the adult Pi's dual college majors) in artful ways.

Pi (Hiran Abeysekera) goes head to head with tiger-puppet Richard Parker in a boisterous new staging of "Life of Pi ... for the story’s existence: religion. Precocious Pi (short for the ...

The natural world is aswirl in “Life of Pi,” a marvelously inventive ... Although raised Hindu, Pi partakes of religious services from many sects. His mother is bemused to hear that her ...

“Life of Pi,” Yann Martel’s Booker ... a naval uniform as the author of the book. He urges Pi to overcome his gentle nature, and his religious dietary restrictions, to kill a turtle (yet ...

The natural world is aswirl in “Life of Pi,” a marvelously inventive ... Although raised Hindu, Pi partakes of religious services from many sects. His mother is bemused to hear that her ...