Yes, magical realism is realistic narrative and naturalistic technique, combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy. In Life Of Pi, Pi tells the Japanese officials the animal story, but they were unable to accept it because it didn't fit the norm. So instead Pi told them the human cannibalism story, showing the two realities, the tiger story and the human.
Obviously the tiger story was fiction, and the human story was real, it isn't realistic that a tiger would just hide away from the human or learn to be cooperative. Unless he was a good trainer, but Pi wasn't a trainer, he just knew facts. The tiger represented Pi's animal side, and how he was able to respect his animal side and use it to survive.
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