i am writing a paper for AP literature comparing these 2 great books. Two similar themes are their veiw of reality, and i was wondering if anyone has read these they could give me some example of when the author uses the storyteller to create the reality. It would be great if i could get some help, i've already got the obvious one's down - thanks again
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Life of Pi and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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silverseason
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Sorry, haven't read Cuckoe's Nest, although I saw the movie. I did read The Life of Pi. Almost the entire book plays with reality. The early part, where he is in school and has to deal with his weird name, was the base. It was unusual, but it seemed real enough. From the point where he begins his voyage with the tiger reality becomes more iffy. His handling of the tiger is credible because of the earlier parts about his father and the zoo. The floating island was a step farther away. None of this constituted a problem for me. After all, what is reality? We only know for sure what we experience, but we cannot know if that experience is "real", that is, has any existence outside of our own heads. Pi was a little like Alice in Wonderland, he dealt capably with what he experienced because that was his reality at the time.
In contrast with the insane in the other book?