In Cole’s essay Believing in Tigers: Anthropomorphism and Incredulity in Life of Pi and Yann Martel’s the theme of poetic faith is used to show how an individual uses this idea to transcend and revise what they know in order to survive uncertainty. Poetic faith is a constant and continual theme and throughout the book and essay and it is shown through the use of religion, literature and lastly the blurred lines between animal and human tendencies. Poetic faith easily shows the reasoning of Pi’s actions as well the reasoning of the readers of the book as stated by Cole. Similarly to negative capability, poetic faith, according to Stewart Cole is “to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and semblance of truth sufficient to procure
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This reiterates the idea of semblance of truth in that it makes it possible to accept a situation without fully accepting the objective or subjective truth.
Objective and subjective truth are terms that are very closely used with religion, since they both describe how an individual has their beliefs and faith. Religion is a part of the main purpose of the novel since Pi states that his story will make you believe in God. Even being a story of wonders Stewart Cole believes "Though it might seem absurd to infer from this that he would not even bother to tell the story to a listener whose belief in God was already firm, it does raise the question of how the story’s appeal might be recast for a religious listener.” (page 22) he does not see that a religious reader would not even need to have a recast for the novel since the appeal for a religious listener still stands. Religion is based on faith and accepting the unknown even without fact. The story could
This reiterates the idea of semblance of truth in that it makes it possible to accept a situation without fully accepting the objective or subjective truth.
Objective and subjective truth are terms that are very closely used with religion, since they both describe how an individual has their beliefs and faith. Religion is a part of the main purpose of the novel since Pi states that his story will make you believe in God. Even being a story of wonders Stewart Cole believes "Though it might seem absurd to infer from this that he would not even bother to tell the story to a listener whose belief in God was already firm, it does raise the question of how the story’s appeal might be recast for a religious listener.” (page 22) he does not see that a religious reader would not even need to have a recast for the novel since the appeal for a religious listener still stands. Religion is based on faith and accepting the unknown even without fact. The story could