The underlying morbidity in Life of Pi makes much more sense once you realize part of Martel's inspiration came from one of Edger Allen Poe's characters (Richard Parker).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi#Richard_Parker_and_Shipwreck_NarrativesCoincidentally, Poe wrote his novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket in 1838, in which his character turned victim to cannibalism years prior to two real, documented accounts of shipwreck and cannibalism actually occurring to two men with the same name in 1846 and 1884.http://www.cracked.com/article_18421_6-insane-coincidences-you-wont-believe-actually-happened.html/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fanpage&utm_campaign=new+article&wa_ibsrc=fanpagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Parker_(shipwrecked)
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