Who is god? That is a question that has caused many problems throughout history from large wars to hate towards certain beliefs. Most authors prefer not to involve religion in their writing due to the hate they may receive but the few who dare to create very significant stories. Author Yann Martel wrote a book by named Life of Pi which features a boy’s adventurous experience alone surviving with the belief of multiple religions. In the preface martel includes the first hint of religion stating “I have a story that will make you believe in god”. Religion may seem minimal in the novel about a boy adrift if the pacific but the overlying lesson remains that the belief in religion is the solutions to many problems.
Life of Pi is the story of a young indian boy Piscine Molitor Patel or “Pi” who is stranded in the middle of the pacific ocean along with an adult tiger for two hundred and twenty seven days. Pi was raised at a zoo owned by his father in Pondicherry, India. Pi explains early in the novel …show more content…
Pi explains that although he went to a christian school he never went to an church and that his curiosity is what caused him to believe in Jesus. He is told a story by a christian priest Father Martin about a boy and father resolving a sin, it ends with”I have decided that the only way the lions can atone for their sins is if I feed you to them”(pg.53). Pi doesn’t like the story and asks for another but all of the stories are similar. He compares to his own religion “ I couldn’t imagine lord krishna consenting to be stripped naked, whipped, mocked, dragged through the streets and, to top it off, crucified” (p.54), he finds the religion concerning. Pi questions Father Martin who tells him the main meaning of the story and christianity in general ”love”. Although Pi is not immediate to fully understand after a few days tells father Martin “I would like to be a
Life of Pi is the story of a young indian boy Piscine Molitor Patel or “Pi” who is stranded in the middle of the pacific ocean along with an adult tiger for two hundred and twenty seven days. Pi was raised at a zoo owned by his father in Pondicherry, India. Pi explains early in the novel …show more content…
Pi explains that although he went to a christian school he never went to an church and that his curiosity is what caused him to believe in Jesus. He is told a story by a christian priest Father Martin about a boy and father resolving a sin, it ends with”I have decided that the only way the lions can atone for their sins is if I feed you to them”(pg.53). Pi doesn’t like the story and asks for another but all of the stories are similar. He compares to his own religion “ I couldn’t imagine lord krishna consenting to be stripped naked, whipped, mocked, dragged through the streets and, to top it off, crucified” (p.54), he finds the religion concerning. Pi questions Father Martin who tells him the main meaning of the story and christianity in general ”love”. Although Pi is not immediate to fully understand after a few days tells father Martin “I would like to be a