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In the movie The Life of Pi, the tiger's name is Richard Parker.
Seems like, the author of the book, Yann Martel used the character based on Edgar Allen Poe's unfinished novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym:
[link to www.imdb.com]
The name Richard Parker is subject of a strange synchronicity: in the Edgar Allan Poe's novel book "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", published in 1838, Parker was a sailor who survived the sinking of his ship together with three others, but was cannibalized by the other three survivors in order to survive. In 1884, a ship called Mignonette sank in the ocean, in which four people survived, including a cabin boy named Richard Parker, who was subsequently killed and eaten by the other three survivors. Yann Martel, writer of Life of Pi's novel book, named the Bengal tiger as "Richard Parker" based on these events.
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[link to www.synchrosecrets.com]
Poe and the Cannibals
Posted on July 22, 2009 by Rob and Trish
On July 25, 1884, forty-seven years after Poe stopped working on the novel, a 17-year-old cabin boy named Richard Parker was killed and eaten in a similar incident. Young Richard Parker was on his first voyage on the high seas, boarding the Mignonette in Southampton, England bound for Australia. But when the ship reached the South Atlantic, it was pummeled by a hurricane and sank. The survivors, who had boarded a lifeboat, had few provisions and after 19 days became desperate. The men discussed drawing lots to choose a victim who would be eaten by the others, but settled on Parker, who had become delirious from drinking seawater. The remaining crew survived on Richard’s carcass for another thirty-five days until they were rescued by the S.S. Montezuma, aptly named after the cannibal king of the Aztecs.
The eerie connection between fiction and real life was revealed on May 4, 1974 when twelve-year-old Nigel Parker, who was related to Richard Parker, submitted the story to the Sunday Times of London, which was conducting a contest to find the best coincidence. The Richard Parker story not only won, but was called one the best ‘coincidences’ ever recorded by author Arthur Koestler, who had sponsored the contest. Astonishingly, the Richard Parker synchronicities have continued and a cousin of Nigel Parker, Craig Hamilton-Parker, has a web site documenting them.
So we have a summary:
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
Richard Parker is the name of several people in real life and fiction who became shipwrecked, with some of them subsequently being cannibalised by their fellow seamen:
• In Edgar Allan Poe's only novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, published in 1838, Richard Parker is a mutinous sailor on the whaling ship Grampus. After the ship capsizes in a storm, he and three other survivors draw lots upon Parker's suggestion to kill one of them to sustain the others. Parker then gets cannibalized.
• In 1846, the Francis Spaight foundered at sea. Apprentice Richard Parker was among the twenty-one drowning victims of that incident, though there were no cases of cannibalism.[1][2]
• In 1884, the yacht Mignonette sank. Four people survived and drifted in a life boat before one of them, the cabin boy Richard Parker, was killed by the others for food. This led to the R v Dudley and Stephens criminal case.[3][4]
• Another Richard Parker was involved in the Spithead and Nore mutinies in 1797 and subsequently hanged, but not eaten.[5]
• Writer Yann Martel included Richard Parker as both a tiger hunter and a Bengal tiger in his 2001 novel Life of Pi. In the novel, the tiger is set adrift in a lifeboat after a shipwreck with three other animals and a boy, the protagonist. It eats the other animals but not the boy. Incidentally, in Poe's Arthur Gordon Pym, the main character (not Richard Parker) owns a dog named "Tiger".
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