เผื่อมีใครสงสัยแบบเดียวกับผมว่าที่มาของชื่อ Richard Parker ซึ่งเป็นชื่อของเสือเบงกอลในเรื่อง มีที่มาอย่างไร
พอดีได้ไปอ่านบทความ Q&A ของผู้แต่งใน web หนึ่งเข้า จึงอยากเอามาแชร์ให้รู้กัน ผู้แต่งบอกว่า
During my research I came upon a curious coincidence. Edgar Allan Poe published his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, in the 1830s. In it, Pym and a friend leave Nantucket on a ship. It capsizes and the two find themselves on the hull of the ship with another survivor. Starvations leads them to killing him and eating him. The character who is lunched upon has the name of Richard Parker. Forty years later, in real life, a yacht called the Mignonette left Southamptom for Australia. In the Atlantic it broke apart and the crew of four scrambled onto a dingy. They survived for 17 days. On the 17th day the captain killed the cabin boy, who was in a coma, and he and another crew member ate him. Two days later the three survivors were rescued by a Swedish ship and brought back to Southampton. They spoke openly of what had happened to them. For the first time in British history, they were tried and convicted of murder. Up till then, cannibalism in the high seas was taken as a given, a terrible thing that had to be done when your ship sank and push came to shove. The cabin boy's name was Richard Parker. There was a third Richard Parker in another ship that foundered. I liked that coincidence, that name that kept on coming up in my research. I decided that would be the tiger's name.
ใน Q&A ข้ออื่นๆ ผู้แต่งยังบอกอีกว่าแกใช้เวลาศึกษาค้นคว้าข้อมูลเพื่อประกอบการเขียนเรื่อง Life of PI นานถึง 4 ปี จึงเขียนเสร็จ
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http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/story?id=124838&page=1#.UOROfOSE23I 
Life of PI ทำไมเสือในเรื่องถึงชื่อ Richard Parker?
พอดีได้ไปอ่านบทความ Q&A ของผู้แต่งใน web หนึ่งเข้า จึงอยากเอามาแชร์ให้รู้กัน ผู้แต่งบอกว่า
During my research I came upon a curious coincidence. Edgar Allan Poe published his only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, in the 1830s. In it, Pym and a friend leave Nantucket on a ship. It capsizes and the two find themselves on the hull of the ship with another survivor. Starvations leads them to killing him and eating him. The character who is lunched upon has the name of Richard Parker. Forty years later, in real life, a yacht called the Mignonette left Southamptom for Australia. In the Atlantic it broke apart and the crew of four scrambled onto a dingy. They survived for 17 days. On the 17th day the captain killed the cabin boy, who was in a coma, and he and another crew member ate him. Two days later the three survivors were rescued by a Swedish ship and brought back to Southampton. They spoke openly of what had happened to them. For the first time in British history, they were tried and convicted of murder. Up till then, cannibalism in the high seas was taken as a given, a terrible thing that had to be done when your ship sank and push came to shove. The cabin boy's name was Richard Parker. There was a third Richard Parker in another ship that foundered. I liked that coincidence, that name that kept on coming up in my research. I decided that would be the tiger's name.
ใน Q&A ข้ออื่นๆ ผู้แต่งยังบอกอีกว่าแกใช้เวลาศึกษาค้นคว้าข้อมูลเพื่อประกอบการเขียนเรื่อง Life of PI นานถึง 4 ปี จึงเขียนเสร็จ
สำหรับผู้ที่อยากอ่านเพิ่มเติม เข้าไปอ่านดูได้ตาม link ข้างล่างครับ
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/story?id=124838&page=1#.UOROfOSE23I