Pi's full name is Piscine Molitor Patel. Pi's parents named him after a family friend of theirs who loved to swim. Well, that's not exactly true. The family friend loved to swim and his favorite swimming pool was the Piscine Molitor in Paris. Instead of naming Pi after the family friend, Pi's parents named him after the pool. As Pi grew up, he was teased about his name because the pronunciation isn't far off of "pissing"...
Pi's full name is Piscine Molitor Patel. Pi's parents named him after a family friend of theirs who loved to swim. Well, that's not exactly true. The family friend loved to swim and his favorite swimming pool was the Piscine Molitor in Paris. Instead of naming Pi after the family friend, Pi's parents named him after the pool. As Pi grew up, he was teased about his name because the pronunciation isn't far off of "pissing" and nobody wants the name Pissing Patel. Pi simply shortened his name. Perhaps being named after a friend that loved swimming and pools is a bit of foreshadowing to Pi's survival for weeks and weeks on the water. Perhaps Pi's act of shortening his name is meant to remind people of the mathematical number. Pi is an irrational number, and Pi admits at the end of the book that his story might sound irrational, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a good story.
"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?"
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