Life of Pi (Book) - Thug Notes Summary & Analysis
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Life of Pi (2001)
by Yann Martel
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The thing that I took away after reading the book is that given the choice, most people will choose a comforting story over an unpleasant truth.
Because like Tom Cruise, most people can't handle the truth.
Aka The Matrix
Brandon Hall there is no way to know that the story with his mother and cook etc is true.. It could just be an example pi uses to prove a point but i agree because i personally like to believe that the animal story was true.. I guess we will never know what's true and what is not and it is truly a matter of personal preference and opinion.
You forgot to add "And it's perfectly ok".
True
Someone made this theory to me and I find it quite fascination, here me quoting it. (Its a bit lenghty)
Neither “version” of the story is true. Pi was not on the boat with the French cook and he was not on the boat with Richard Parker the Bengal Tiger.
In his desperation, and due to the extreme mental stress he is under, Pi personifies the three major conflicts that are waging in his head into three animals. In this, his most desperate hour, when he needs answers as he faces sure death, the three religions he embraced as a child struggle with each other in his mind. The Orangutan represents Hinduism. The Grant’s Zebra represents Christianity. And the Spotted Hyena represents Islam.
At first the hyena (Islam) attacks the weakest of the three faiths in his mind: Christianity. Unlike Islam and Hinduism, Christianity is the only religion that Pi didn’t grow up with around him as a child, and his conversations with the priest show that it remains the religion he has the most difficultly understanding. He cannot embrace the divinity of Jesus Christ, but is greatly attracted to the Christian concept of love and of sacrifice. In this extreme environment however, this concept of love and sacrifice are seen as weakness in his mind. As a result the “weakest” of the three animals, the injured zebra, is killed by the hyena.
The Orangutan, which is suggested at the end of the movie may be a representation of his mother, is in fact the representation of the religion of his family: Hinduism. It is the religion that he is most comfortable with (incidentally the religion of his mother) and he begins to grow closer to this religion. He is much more open with Hinduism in the boat and seems to find comfort in its company. But the monotheistic elements of Islam are incompatible with the tenants of Hinduism, and it drive Pi to a breaking point as he tries to maintain this complex dual-theology in his head. Suddenly the dogma that he rejected in the mosque, and in the church, and at the dinner table, overwhelm his thoughts as he is facing his own mortality. At this moment the hyena of Islam, and its strict dogma that “there is no God but God and Muhammad is his prophet” becomes completely incompatible with the polytheistic Hinduism. The Orangutan could coexist with the spotted Hyena on the boat (which symbolizes Pi’s subconscious) if need be. But the Spotted Hyena cannot co-exist with the Orangutan. It attacks and kills the Orangutan and it is at this time that Pi is faced with the most powerful force in his subconscious struggle for understanding: the hidden, lurking monster that had always been in the shadows of his subconscious but only seen in flashes in the past. He is faced with the Bengal Tiger. He is faced with atheism.
The Tiger cares not for dogma, it only cares for survival. It kills the Hyena, showing Pi that his refusal all these years to commit to a religion was not proof of enlightenment, it was actually proof of agnosticism. It shows him that, deep in his mind, he never really believed in any of the other animals. They were always at the mercy of the angry tiger hiding under the tarp on the other side of the boat. The Tiger teaches Pi that there is no use in dogma. There is only survival. The presence of the Tiger(which Pi initially fears and wishes to hide from) eventually trains Pi into becoming self sufficient. Although Pi feels he is taking care of the Tiger, it is really Pi feeding his own mind with the basic tools of survival. He doesn’t let the Tiger drown because of his realization that they both believe in the same thing, the only thing he has ever believed in: life.
When Pi reaches the shore of Mexico he then learns the hardest lesson that the Tiger can teach as the Tigerwalks back into the deep jungle of his subconscious. That atheism has no place for love. That the reason that Pi rejected him all these years was because Pi knew that in the end, unlike with the other three animals, when the final day came, the Tiger would offer no comfort. It would answer no questions or promise a happy ending. It only promised life…and then it promised death. He screams and cries not because the Tiger abandoned him, but because he realizes that at the end (death) he will be alone and the Tiger will give him nothing when that day comes. It will just walk away without looking back.
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+Redem10 very interesting indeed, for me it was always clear that the tiger was atheism, but the conection to the other animals in your theory are what really makes the whole theory fit. Why should only one animal represent one thing? Its a really good theory! Thanks
+Redem10 Amazing analysis.
+Redem10 This changes everything.
That analysis is mind blowing.
+FUS RO DAH Well personally I like it because watching the movie I had a hard reconciling the first third of the movie with the all the stuff that happen on the raft, they don't quite gel together (I am speaking here as someone that only watched the movie), but with this interpretation help reconcile the two
Redem10 I'm on the same boat as you man.
Never read the book and the analysis really changes your perspective.
That look though when he said "orangutan named O.J." LOL
i know right the orangutan should have been named Trump and the Gorilla should have been named OJ
(lets see how many snowflakes i can trigger with that comment )
Ken Mabie snowflake used to be an ironic word. It used to be funny. And then people started using it seriously and I kind of just have no emotion when seeing people use that word anymore. It feels kind of meaningless now.
@@KenMabie "snowflake" ok
@@oatmeal7563 I love how nobody is upset about the meaning of this guys words, most just think he is r worded for trying to "trigger snowflakes", and apparently 2 people think he is edgey.
Richard Parker is actually the name of a shipwreck victim in an Edgar Allen Poe story (The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket) who was eaten by his fellow sailors in a raft, this event later happened in real life on a ship called the Migonette. Really, calling the tiger Richard Parker is a subtle primer for the reader to expect some shipwreck cannibalism to pop up in the story.
crazykenna So long story short, if your name is Richard Parker, don't get in a shipwreck.
crazykenna thats so cool, i didn't know that
Also, strangely, Irrfan Khan is always playing characters that mention Richard Parker.
The story pays honor to Edgar Alan Poe (Pym, Richard Parker), the master of horror. PI attacks the cook to devour him, but the cook falls into the sea. Then PI faces a dilemma: dying from starvation or devour his own mother? PI resists the most he can, but finally devours his mother's rotten cadaver (the island), now covered with worms (the meerkats).
Interesting. Isn't that a reference to the case of R v. Dudley and Stephens, 14 QBD 273 (1884) where two shipwrecked sailors consumed an injured cabin boy named Richard Parker?
I guess Pi is telling us to go with whatever floats our boat... (Pun intended)
Good one❤️❤️❤️😂
Damn😹
Or … go with the flow..
Reminds me of "War does not determine who is right, only who is left." -Plato
@Practical Skeptic such a socratic way of thinking
Bertrand Russell 1918-2018
"Life of Pi" is definitely one of my favorite stories ever. Even though the movie adaptation is great too, you gave it some better insight into the story. I understand that lots of people look into this story with either a religious perspective or through a "survival of the fittest" perspective. I do like a lot of these theories. But to me, I had a different approach to the story.
The moral of this story is even though we're never gonna know what really happened to Pi out on the ocean, maybe Pi's story is meant to be a metaphorical lesson on how we handle life when it comes at you with difficult challenges. And sometimes life is meant to have its mysterious ways and we aren't always gonna find out the answers to life. The best way to handle life is to just keep living life no matter how hard it can be. You did a great job. Keep up the good work, Dr. Sparky!
It'd be ironic if Pi's suffering was actually divine punishment for his divided beliefs rather than a test of faith.
@Dr. M. H. weird there are still new comments being made, especially as fresh as yours
@Dr. M. H. I believe that coincidental crap is always a test. I think so because the animals (including human) got on the same boat as coincidence. The animals that were killed failed the test of life (including all the other people and animals on the ship, the fish, and the meerkats on the island). The test of life is survival, if you fail you die and if you pass you live. Surprisingly the tiger and the human equally passed the test, they both survived the journey. You could argue that if it wasn't for the human the tiger wouldn't survive, but Pi himself says that he wouldn't survive without the tiger. They both killed for food and they both restricted themselves from killing each other, they created a team with the power of communication.
@Dr. M. H. Sorry this is gonna be a bit long but please bear with me.
I see death as an end to a song, and I see life experience as some kind of music. Every song has an end just like every song has a beginning. I would also say that the end of the song is just as important as its beginning if not more important, because that's when the listener can stop and think about what they just listened to and maybe apply it to their life in some kind of meaningful way. Whether it be uplifted emotions or even complete changes to how people look at life.
Every song undergoes a test every time it's played. To see if it fits (survives) to the mood of the listener. Now this makes music harder to judge because its "fittingness" is dependent on both mood and listener. For example I would listen to soft peaceful music in the morning and energetic full of life music in the afternoon, but that doesn't make one better or worse than another, because the mood is changed. I also like some music that my friends might not like and that's totally fine.
But I think that truth makes music timeless and universal. Truth in the message as well as in the actual sound the music makes, both combined create a vibe of a song. I think that life gives us a challenge to keep a good vibe in our song of life, no matter the mood we are in, or the people (or animals) we have to deal with. Basically to be hopeful that you can do it and everything is going to be ok somehow.
Is it always going to be ok? Hell no, but that shouldn't stop us. Because we should be motivated not by outcome but the possibility of outcome, and positive outcomes have at least some kind of chance to happen. But just like Pi was afraid of the tiger and the ocean, we should be afraid of "God" or reality itself. No matter how much Pi liked the tiger he undertsood that all the tiger wanted was to eat him (at least at first) but the most profound thing Pi understood was that the tiger wasn't trying to eat Pi specifically. The tiger just wanted to eat anything he could. Using that knowledge Pi became the tiger's source of food, but not directly because Pi didn't want to die yet.
So life is like a balance that we try to push in the favor of as many creatures as possible. That's why Pi was a vegetarian, because it produced less harm to the animals in the end. :)
Only Jesus can save.
Hinduism doesn't discourage divided belief so it wouldn't make sense.
"suffering is relative and so is truth"
6:35
+Pan kurczak
her statement
your head
+Pan kurczak But no one person is an objective observer, by definition. So truth IS relative.
+Pan kurczak true.. true is universal but its also bigger than anyone can truly fully comprehend
and or limited human nature always distort it one way or the other ..some times we even denied it because it revels our own human flaws .. and make us feel helpless
but true will always be true .. even when we denied it , forget about it or are unaware of it
+Amanda Vadon Subjectivity is not as subjective as we think it is. It's why planes fly and jumping off cliffs don't succeed as well. Our inability to comprehend what is true does not allow us to determine what is true, but merely be different levels of fools depending on how invested we are about trying to understand rather than pull shit out of our asses to comfort ourselves.
i’m tryna revise n learn this for my exam but i keep laughing🤣🤣
🤣
😂😂😂I feel you
Man is ripping
same fr man😂😂
I laughed so hard at the look on his face when he said "an orangutan named OJ" This series is brilliant...
Matric 2024 anyone???
As we write today😭
Tomorrow for me🥲
I’m done for reals im so over this book 💗
Heya😭😭
Here, wishing a poetry essay was 25 marks... because the poem is right In front of you, it's easy to quote....😢
The two stories that Pi tells the investigators at the end could be alluding to different religions. Both the stories are the same, with changes in certain places. Pi says “You can’t prove which story is true and which is not. You must take my word for it.” In religion a person is following something that they cannot prove. You cannot simply prove what is going to happen after death.
In most religions there is one connecting point and that point is having some sort of god, “in both stories the ship sinks, my entire family dies, and I suffer.”
“So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can’t prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?” In the end religion is subjective. You can’t prove which religion is right or real. Religion makes no difference in the aspect of living. Religion is down to what the viewer prefers, as Pi says “which story do you prefer?”
What helps you cope and gives you hope. Mad truth, my brother.
You should do The Phantom of the Opera.
i watched the silent era movie version, i really liked it, i ordinarily cant sit through an entire movie in one sitting because of my short attention span but that movie kept me interested till the end
+Shawn Ravenfire yeS YES YES
YES I'VE BEEN ASKING FOR THIS FOR A LONG TIME!! I just finished the book a month ago :)
My thoughts exactly!
Why tf this make it so funny irl it was so heartbreaking lol
OH MY GOD THE LOOK HE GIVES US AFTER HE SAYS "THE ORANGUTAN NAMED OJ"
I think the story with the animals represents faith while the story with the humans represents atheism. The one with the tiger is amazing and interesting, hard to believe. The second one is realistic and cold. I think the point is...both stories are just as real as they are false. Pi never reveals which story is true showing that there is a place for both faith and rationalism. In the end the result is one and the same...the ship sinks and Pi survives. Science is essential but spirituality gives life more beauty and meaning...The two dont need to be mutualy exclusive..spirituality also doesnt have to equal a certian religion .
just wanted to say that i absolutely love this channel. the summary and analysis are fantastic. i find all your videos helpful and also very entertaining. hope one day you could do a video on Ulysses by James Joyce.
+Javi Solis Thanks for the kind words! We'll definitely keep it in mind!
Dude KEEP THIS UP!!!! WE need people like you in this world...regards, South Africa
I would love if you guys did "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak.
Yes
Definitely
YES
I can't be the first one to think of this theory, but let's take a step back and look at the part where his family's ship drowns.
The ship was an analogy for Noah's Ark: it's a bigass ship that was supposed to carry all of the zoo animals to safety. It sails off to sea, but whereas Noah's Ark survived a storm, this ship was instead sunk. This represents the sinking of Christian faith within Pi. The fact that Pi is the only survivor also means that his ties to any religious roots have also been severed.
MrCactuar13 stay woke 😳
MrCactuar13 One cannot assume that Pi's faith in Christianity has been sunk. Why then, in his adult life, have symbols of Christianity placed around his house?
I didn’t really get that from this story. Theirs a lot more too it than not needing christianity
No, I think the ship represented planet earth. Full of people, animals, fresh water, rice. But the shipwreck represents the failure of life to present itself properly to Pi, nothing makes sense, everything is just as confusing as when he was young and beginning to learn about life. I think you were right about the Noah's Ark element, except I think that the Noah's Ark was actually the little raft. Pi actually calls it "Pi's Ark" at one point in the film.
The story pays honor to Edgar Alan Poe (Pym, Richard Parker), the master of horror. PI attacks the cook to devour him, but the cook falls into the sea. Then PI faces a dilemma: dying from starvation or devour his own mother? PI resists the most he can, but finally devours his mother's rotten cadaver (the island), now covered with worms (the meerkats).
WHEN YOU HAVE A TEST ON THE BOOK ON MONDAY AND YOU HAVEN’T READ THE BOOK
MRS GURL PLEASE IT IS 3 AM AND I HAVE A TEST TODAY AND I DIDN'T READ ANYTHING AT ALL THIS MAN SAVED MY LIFE😭
@@njerimacharia1829 lol sanw
I loved the book, read it years before the movie. This was a fantastic episode, I loved hearing your analysis; fascinating.
2019?
YOU MADE A SUMMARY VERY ENTERTAINING
Hard Time by Charles Dickens, Everyman the play, Dead Man Walkng by Tim Robbins, Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis, I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak, Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos, Quicksand by Nella Larsen,
Passing by Nella Larsen, Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, Measure for Measure, Henry V, Henry IV Part 1 and Part 2, and Richard III by William Shakespeare, The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
replying to find this list again who else is with me?
Nik Cruz When your major is English, you real a lot of things.
+J1P2K can you send me a list of your favorite stories?
+J1P2K if anything, to make it easier, just reply here. I'd like to read wha you've read.
Father Goriot
It seems that the tiger represents the side of Pi that he needed in order to survive. It frightens him and seems deadly at first, but then he finds ways of living with it. So essentially he releases his inner beast when his life is in danger and needs to be defended, fears the beast-like qualities that saved him, and then accepts that it is a part of what makes him complete. When the tiger leaves him it is Pi letting go of his need for that survival instinct. The story is really fascinating because it leaves a lot up to personal interpretation, allowing the audience to take away from it what they will.
That's some deep stuff, man. I love this channel for that! I always want to go in depth about simple things, and these videos do the same! I agree, and also with all the other theories people can come up with in the comments!
I would really love to see "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski. Love all your videos friends.
+steveme49 Great suggestion! We appreciate the love, buddy!
Do Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
A lot of people in the comments are saying this book has a terrible message and I can understand why. they feel like it's suggesting being comfortable with not asking questions and not wanting to learn more then what you currently know is totally ok. In an age of rising atheism where the standards of the passed are more challenged then ever and most people have adopted the philosophy of "always ask questions, never fully trust anything" I can understand why this book doesn't sit well. But here's the thing about this books message that, like very few things we're aware of, is an irrefutable truth:
When not given complete information between two choices, you are going to choose based on personal preference. Because it's the only thing you have to go off of. The guys at the end choose the animal story over the other story not because it seems more plausible, but because they feel it's a story that ties more within their personal taste. Religion is a very similar phenomenon. As it stands, we can't prove or disprove the existence of a God, and we can't be absolutely sure of what is true at our current time. In response to this, we all have a choice to make that could equally be wrong. Some people choose to believe in God because they think to themselves "Hey, it's a possibility for greater meaning in the universe that doesn't hurt me if it's not true so why not take a chance?" while other people choose Atheism because they see the existence of God as unlikely and that the only things that are worth partaking in are things with tangible proof, and even then you can't completely trust it. You can try to justify your decision through any speech of skepticism or lust for discovery that you want and you can go on and on about how much smarter you are then other people because of it, but at the end of the day you chose based on preference between two vague concepts, just like everyone else. That's not to suggest you should choose without ANY DOUBT in your mind or any lust for questioning. You SHOULD try to learn more of how things are. But to begin learning about anything, you're going to go in with a preordained mindset and your going to go in based on what you HOPE is the actual case. It's only natural that in times of uncertainty you choose what comforts and motivates you. It's a simple psychological defense mechanism that shouldn't be shamed or boycotted. It's only natural that you have faith in one concept or another and where it's going to take you.
It's a bad massage, the one that says that stealing is right, principally when u r a strong bully... Ask mr Martel about it, he knows it...
Now that's thoughtful
The story pays honor to Edgar Alan Poe (Pym, Richard Parker), the master of horror. PI attacks the cook to devour him, but the cook falls into the sea. Then PI faces a dilemma: dying from starvation or devour his own mother? PI resists the most he can, but finally devours his mother's rotten cadaver (the island), now covered with worms (the meerkats).
@Siddharth Sahu The whole book, plagiarism...
@Siddharth Sahu Max and the Cats. Moacyr Scliar... U know....
"So not chill, spotted hyena"
You are like Bob Ross for literature
wow this is a very deep analysis of the book. I'm impressed.
O.J. Chimpson lmao
The story is so much more spiritual and relevant to our time than I thought. I've only seen the film, and I think it may have dispelled some of the mystery and myth that gives the story power. It's still a great film, but I think it's worth checking the book out to get to the heart of the concepts it suggests. Thanks for the analysis as always Sparky!
the last time I came so early I became a father
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Most used joke on the internet
+Rafael Gomes Always wondered: if these jokers were cumming earlier, why couldn't they pull out earlier?
Rafael Gomes i just realised that natural selection works in favour of these slowpokes.
Matric 2022 where u at ? 🙈🤣🤝
Matric 2024 📍
Life of pi has some of the best stories I’ve seen in a movie and One of the most beautiful I’ve ever seen.
Its more of that to each individual regardless of
if its true or not its a personal decision, for all we know
Pi's first story may be true which coincides with the
possibility of what we may consider impossibility in life (religion) or
if we want to believe we have life for the most part understand we go
with the second story as truth. The author is trying to say no matter
what you believe, neither can be proven absolutely and as individuals we
should pick what ever makes us comfortable as we have to live with that
decision.
Hey Wisecrack are you guys going to cover the Iliad by Homer and the Aeneid by Virgil or not?
+Nicky Bailey It's certainly a possibility!
I should hope so since both works are classics of western literature Wisecrack.
+Wisecrack is it possible to do gravity falls 8 bit philosophy?
+Wisecrack Can we get "Age of Innocence"?
Could you please do an episode analysing "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. I love your notes and The Othello and The Stranger analyses really helped my English papers. For my exams in the end of the year we will have to do something relating to The Fountainhead so your help would really be appreciated.
+Omar Hisham We'll keep it in mind! We appreciate the love!
+Wisecrack Please bro do Bud Not Buddy
+Omar Hisham God that book is worthless. Ayn Rand is a disagreeable woman.
It's up he did it
I like his explanation.
Guys I need some help about the “Life of Pi”
I need to do an essay and the question is
“What do these text suggest to you about how an individuals perceptions can significantly altered by time?)
Please give me some ideas. Thank you💕
The Trial by Franz Kafka next time?
Or To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf? Thank you.
The Trial would be fantastic.
"Pi's boat lands on an island dat survives by eatin' brothas!"
🤣🤣🤣
Omg this was so helpful! I have to write an essay comparing Life of Pi with another book and this gave me a really good idea of symbols and meaning in the book. Thank you! (also it wasn't explained in a boring way at all, which is unusual for English class).
The priest said “Are you thirsty?” Remember Thirsty was the real name of the tiger before the name mix up
"on orangutan named OJ'
*that fucking look on his face*
this show needs to return
Dude thank you!! I have an exam today this summary was helpful
I really enjoyed this one. I've come to the same conclusion as Pi's on religion, but it's still hard. I encountered a man, dressed in normal clothes and pinned it down immediately without his input, that he was a pastor and he was baptist. He asked how I knew. From there, we engaged in a religious conversation that quickly went sour on my end. This was because no matter what I said to him, he turned it back to how his religion was the correct one because it was the correct one. He then gave me his card and said to call him if there was "anything I can do for you". As in conversion and such. What a pain.
Love this bro. I have a Oral test about this book tomorrow, I think i will succeed by now! Thank you from the Netherlands ; )
That summary of the book was so perfect and spot-on. Fantastic job on your analysis as well. I greatly enjoyed it. You've easily earned my Subscription.
Wow, the movie really didn't do this justice.
The movie was exactly like the book. like, scene for scene
+goodfilmful I don't remember the remember the other castaway coming on board and trying to murder Pi in the movie, but my memory could just be failing me, honestly.
I remember it being more overtly religious, rather, leaving out the mention of rationality. I liked the movie, but I didn't come away with the takeaway this gave me.
+Jeffman12 I agree - The movie didn't touch on some of the imagery I looked forward to whilst reading the book. But its all subjective lol Maybe the moments that were most fascinating and special to me didn't stand out to those who were making the movie.
+Jeffman12 Well, the thing about the movie is, you know that the animals were what actually happened, that's why I, and many other people, didn't pick up on the vagueness of it. Though, the movie did actually set up a sense of illusion in multiple scenes, it's just that people don't analyze movies as carefully as books.
This is one my favorite thug notes. Oftentimes TN just touches on some symbolism in the book. But this episode went into a greater depth of meaning of the book, which was great.
Lol I'm writing an exam about this 😅really helpful since I didn't read the book
Tmw ryt?
Matric?😭
Matric?south africa?🤣😅
How 'bout Flowers for Algernon?
Love your videos! Really one of the best channels I've come across on RUclips.
Can you all do "The Taming of the Shrew"? That would be great, seriously love your videos!
And my must read list keeps on growing...
Great video guys! I was always confused about Pi meeting another blind castaway. I wasn't sure whether this was a dream or a hallucination or what.
This will always be one of my most favorite books. Ive read it at leaf 3 times. And even still I'm a bit confused as to what parts were real and which weren't lol - I wish the movie would have gone into more detail about certain aspects of the book, but thats neither here nor there. Life of Pi will always be dear to my heart. Thanks for this video!
Loved it, thanks for reminding me how good this novel is.
I hope you do Kindly Ones or the Secret History sometime.
this was so very enlightening and eye opening. i had read the book but i had never analyzed its meaning like this
Wow! This was really amazing! Definitely getting this book!
This is one of my favorite episodes. Good work.
Can you do a Thug Notes over "The Green Mile" by Stephen King?
I miss you Thug Notes T^T Please do more books, love you, man!
can you do gadsby ( the 50000 words novel without the letter "E") next?
I just recently discovered this channel and it is already my new favorite subscription! Could you please do an episode on "The Bell Jar" before I go crazy, lol Thank
Your videos are pretty educational and a great entertainment. I love it! I think i already watched all of them. Could you please analyse later in the future "Master and Margarita"?
this is exactly what i needed for my report
Me watching this the night before finals : 👁️👄👁️
Same
😂😂😂😂brudda man
Hours before
Same here 😂
glad to see a new episode man, been here since the start. Would east of Eden be somewhere on your list?
2:16
Best moment ever.
I love dem thug notes! Thanks professor. Peace!
Bros helping our the whole of KZN rn😭
holy cow i have a seminar to present for this book and this really helped!!!! props to ya fam!
I'm not sure if its my personal bias is getting in the way of the book but "ignore the brutal truth because the lie is more fun" is a shitty message.
Depends on who you ask I geuss most people don't want their delusions shit
+WhiteTuxMafiaAndFilms That's assuming that the animal story is the fake one. The purpose of the story is that neither can be fully proven. It's about faith. Somehow, even though the fantastical story may be improbable, It seems to point to deeper truths, and seems more genuine. There is no clear answer, yet it can be discussed forever, that's what makes this book so amazing
+WhiteTuxMafiaAndFilms thats not exactly the books message ..it not about what is more fun but what what allows you live a better life
its not about living a lie for the sake of living a lie but is about trying to not go nihilistic about life ... pi knows what really happened ..the horror of what really happened ... but he try to think of it different so he doesn't fall trap into horror of his life .. he knows his stories are not true ..he is just trying to not make worst old wounds that never heal
+WhiteTuxMafiaAndFilms It's a message designed by people who want to justify not taking responsibilities for their actions. The message is designed for people like that so that they can together create an echo chamber of doing whatever they want without adherence to responsibilities. When problems occur, those who never cared enough about reality can get away with just blaming their problems on everyone else.
#antivaccing
#antigmo
#antiscience
#antigluten
#antimedicine/chemicals
This list goes on and on. It's all religion. Can't prove anything to be 100% true. Can't prove this isn't a dream. It's a movie supporting horrible people who intentionally refuse to hold any amount of responsibility for their actions. It's also one that resonates with most people.
+WhiteTuxMafiaAndFilms That depends on what you value most: truth or quality of life. If the brutal truth is something like "there is no God and life is meaningless", then IMO you could argue that ignorance of this truth can potentially lead to a happier life and that constructing artificial meaning through a lie is just one of the possible ways to achieve happiness, which to some people is more valuable than truth. After all, if the only meaning that can exist in life is the meaning we assign to it, constructed meaning in the form of a delusion can be an effective way to achieve this, and to many people it's more appealing than living with no meaning whatsoever. The problem with this is not in the lie itself or the denial of the brutal truth, but in the possibility of people getting so emotionally invested in the lie they constructed that they start killing those who tell them it's not true. As long as that doesn't happen, it's all gravy.
You just made every freshman in highschool happy
Hi Wisecracks,
Would it be possible for you to cover Macbeth?
+NapoleonCaesar05 It's very possible! ruclips.net/video/T-PKotyoxys/видео.html
Thanks, I didn't know you had already covered that play, sorry I'm new to your channel so yeah.
Anyway, amazing channel.
+Wisecrack Rime of the ancient mariner
This is the my favorite book we were required to read for school. It's really good.
When class's hip hop dude who's actually very smart, does a project on spirituality lol
Just some suggestions:
The Lodger by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowes
Death Trap by Ira Levine
Kingdom Come by Mark Waid/Alex Ross
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
I love those closing words
my teacher played this in class and it just so happened to be the most interesting lesson ever😅
Thug Notes is the best thing I found on youtube in a while, wisecrack in general is just doing it big.
Yo Is that massive chain real?
"just so you know believing in god is the same exact thing"
this shit hit my fan so hard, i'l having a hard time breathing!
Honestly, this is the most interesting and amusing book review ever! 5/5!
This is my first real introduction to this book, and wow, I think I hate it already.
The moral conclusion of the novel seems to be that truth doesn't matter. The idea that it's okay to believe whatever makes you comfortable/gives you hope is an idea that I think is toxic. It's one thing to find a sense of hope and community - that's fine and good. But believing in things that you have no way of knowing if they're true can be dangerous. For one thing, the comforting story of religion comes with more than just some (possibly false) hope. It can, and often does, come packaged with ideas like homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, holy war, etc.
But the problem goes even deeper than that. When you decide that a question is unanswerable and choose the answer you prefer, you give up agency. You give up your ability to seek the truth. You give up your honesty and integrity.
Personally, I think that it is far better to not know, and to always question, than it is to accept a comforting story that might be wrong.
+DontMockMySmock Quod est veritas?
That's an incredibly flippant response to what I think is a serious issue with Life of Pi's argument. It's like something a stoner would say. "Like, whoa, dude, what IS truth?"
But I'll answer the question anyway. Truth is ideas that are in agreement with reality. Now, postmodern philosophers and stoners alike might argue that we are never be able to be 100%-absolutely-beyond-the-tiniest-shadow-of-a-doubt sure that something is true (although I think I could probably make a case for logical tautologies like "'p' and not-'p'"). What matters is not absolute complete certainty, but that we seek to be ever more confident in the truth, to approach that 100% even if we do not reach it. To do as Pi suggests and accept the story without even trying to ascertain confidence in its truth is, in my opinion, ludicrous.
+DontMockMySmock thing is, Life of Pi completely acknowledges that even though you don't know the actuality of the situation, you are still going to pick a preference based on your own lifestyle. You decide not to believe in God for instance because you see it as unlikely and you think the intricacies of religion are dangerous. you avoid it because you don't want to do something ugly. You want to keep your integrity secure. There's no way around it, you're just doing what you feel makes the most sense . . .in other words, you are doing what comforts you. for religious people it's the flipside. They believe in God because they think the only thing more unlikely then a convenient creator is shear coincidence. They think it's dangerous to not at least attempt something for the idea of it in the event that not doing so might have severe consequences. The only feeling worse then regretting something you did is regretting something you didn't do, after all. Yes, questioning and critiquing are important as it helps us gain a better understanding of the universe, but one of the harsher realities we have to come to terms with is the fact that we could very well be wrong in how we think things are. But as long as everybody's gambling, we might as well pick our favorite horse in the race.
Besides, everybody puts faith in things they can't be sure of. For instance, Your loved one (mother, wife, sibling, math teacher, take your pick) may very well die tomorrow. Any list of tragic accidents can happen to the point where one could argue you are more likely of dying then surviving. Past evidence means nothing; just because your loved one survived crossing the street yesterday does not mean they are impervious to it. But you aren't going to tell yourself that. You have this irrational sense of assurance that they'll be alright tomorrow in spite of probabilities contrary, because it's what keeps you active and happy for the now. It makes it so you spend your day today productive and enthusiastic rather then worrying and hopeless. And yes, if your loved one were to die tomorrow you'd certainly be heartbroken, but for today you would have been in high spirits. Better to have one bad day then two. Faith in God is a similar concept.
+TomboTime "The only feeling worse then regretting something you did is regretting something you didn't do, after all."
That can't be right. You may regret a missed opportunity more than you regret an awkward moment, but the thing you regret most of all is the suffering your actions cause for people. Suppose you express your faith in your religion to all of your friends and in the end you join them all in hell because you claimed to be certain of something you didn't really know. Maybe if you had been more honest about how much evidence you had, you wouldn't have helped convince all your friends to stay in the wrong religion. That's a pretty huge regret.
Suppose you've read a few lines in a sacred scripture and decided that's good enough for you to attack gay people who want to marry. Suppose, it turns out that you misinterpreted those lines, or the lines were mistranslated, or they were added by people who wanted to manipulate you, and really God thinks that gay marriage is fine. You've just tormented people for nothing, and probably sent yourself to hell again, all because you decided to believe everything you read. That's a pretty huge regret.
"Everybody puts faith in things they can't be sure of."
People make guesses about what will happen based on very little knowledge, but that's very different from having faith. We guess that our friends won't die tomorrow, but we're aware that we don't really know. We don't confidently claim to be sure that our friends won't die tomorrow. We'll easily admit that anyone could die at any time if pressed.
In contrast, if you have faith that your loved one won't die tomorrow then you'd tell anyone who asks that it certainly won't happen. You'd talk as if your loved one had superhuman invulnerability, because you are so sure, to the point that you may even forget that you don't actually know it.
+Ansatz66 You've brought up some good points about regretting mistakes that may put you in eternal torment like misinterpreting scripture or converting other people, but that's going on an assumption that you don't respect other peoples choices. I know there are quite a few religious bigots in the world, but I hope you don't think ALL religious people are like that. I for one try my best to keep an open mind, which is why one of my favorite religions to research is Hinduism, but that's going on a tangent. and sometimes not doing something can ALSO cause suffering of people. Say your religion is right but you decide to not share what you found, that's technically risking putting your friends in eternal suffering (personally I wouldn't think God would punish straight up lack of information but for the sake of my argument let's just go with that). Say your interpretation of a scripture is correct but you decide not to open up discussion about it, and let some offensive and shallow minded loudmouth lead people astray. Sure, both doing something AND not doing something can lead to equally catastrophic results depending on the scenario, but at least being active has good intentions (usually) and actually leaves an impact of SOME kind. Yes, sharing may risk making you look stupid or even like a villain, but it's better to share with negative consequences then to just let negative consequences happen. It's better to take that risk for the possibility, however slight, that what you do will have positive effects. When you do nothing, nothing changes.
and isn't making guesses and having faith pretty well synonymous? Yes, faith has more of an implied confidence towards it, but you wouldn't make a guess if you weren't more confident in one decision over another, and that confidence is built on nothing more then personal preference in the circumstance of no information. If you were given complete information, what you choose wouldn't be a guess. And sure, the conversation of the possibility of people dying tomorrow doesn't come up too often, but that only perpetuates peoples feelings that everything is going to be okay. Isn't it a type of faith to act like things will be the way they are without really even thinking about it? That's putting a lot of confidence in uncertainty. But again, that's completely natural, because we do this thing as a defense mechanism. There's no way around it, when you believe something is going to happen just because it doesn't occur to you to imagine the alternative, that's faith.
Also, it'd be really amazing if you took on more short stories. (Your discussion of "The Tell-Tale Heart" was great!) I'm an English adjunct at a community college, and I think a WiseCrack/Thug Notes take on some of the stories we've read could really clarify how to discuss the theme of a work by citing the plot, word choice, characterization, etc. (without being mind-numbingly boring).
Still no Gone With The Wind?!
as always, great stuff. I have no idea why this channel isn't more popular.. one of the best things on youtube (all three parts combined)
I was very disappointed when I started reading this book with the hopes of pie =(
Life of Pi is the most disturbing story I have heard in my life (and yet I have only seen the movie). The ending really stuck with me and filled me with deep, deep dread. I am not sure why. I am an atheist.
dude can you do.. mahabharata,the biggest epic in the world
Rudy Krish 😂😂😂 that gonna be cool lol
Rudy Krish mahabharat is too long, way too long to be told in one video.
Understanded this so well over proper summaries
Screw that. I will work my best to get as close as I can to know the "real deal", and when confronted by the reality of time and the limits of mortality, I will make sure I furthered the search for others and they can get even closer to it than I was, through my work.
well said man, humanity needs people like you
The book is saying something more along the lines of "Each individual will believe what seems better for them" rather than the "LIES ARE BETTER" misinterpretation that a lot of people seem to be getting from it.
XEspadaSaDiosX I was responding to the video, not to the book. But it seems like the video analysis suffered from this misinterpretation that you mentioned. However, if it is an interpretation of such an implicit text, perhaps different interpretations are not necessarily wrong, they are just different. That would be true specially if the text is purposely ambiguous. If it is not, nevermind then.
+Lucas Balaminut And they'll get a little closer, and a little closer after that, and as Einstein said, "As our circle of knowledge grows, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it", until everyone is dead and the search was meaningless. I don't believe that but it's a fair point.
Bear McBear MC if everyone does not attempt to push the searsh closer and closer, then for sure we are all doomed. But if we do, there is a small chance we escape a catastrophe. And then another. And then another. It is a small chance, but it is also the only one. _"Do not go gentle into that good night."_
I've been hitting these videos hard. Much love for them for sure. You've done almost every one of my favourite books. Would be amazing if you did the grand-daddy of them all, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
I only want to believe what's true.
this is by far, the best book analysis i ever watched on youtube