Throughout the story Life of Pi, the author Yann Martel conveys the connection between doubt and faith. Pi believes that atheists are his brothers and sisters because although they do not believe in God they have faith that there is no God, unlike agnostics who are doubtful. After his journey, Pi becomes more like an agnostic and starts to doubt if God is real. This causes him to create the better story (the one with animals) in his mind so that he can keep believing in God. The story with animals helps Pi cope with all the sins he has committed and tragedies he had to go through. By creating the illusion in his head that the animals did these sins it helps Pi try to continue to have faith in God, even though he is still doubtful. Pi’s religious
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They both say the one with the animals and Pi replies, “‘Thanks you. And so it goes with God.’”(Martel 317). By picking the story with the animals, they have to have more faith because it does not make sense. The story with the humans makes more logical sense so by picking the story with the animals they have more faith. The version with God makes for a better story than the one without God. In the authors note Yann Martel promotes the better story by saying, “If we citizens do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.” (author's note xii). The better story contains God and therefore requires imagination and faith and represents the atheist. The story that makes more sense in reality sides with the agnostic because they have no faith and would not be able to believe in the better story. Pi creates the better story because he knows that he will not be able to forgive himself for the things he did in the real story. He even says, “It’s the plain truth plain truth: without Richard Parker, I wouldn’t be alive today to tell you my story” (Martel 164). Without the idea that Richard Parker did all the sinful actions he did Pi would not be able to forgive himself. The author even says, “After all these years, Richard Parker still preys on his mind” (Martel
They both say the one with the animals and Pi replies, “‘Thanks you. And so it goes with God.’”(Martel 317). By picking the story with the animals, they have to have more faith because it does not make sense. The story with the humans makes more logical sense so by picking the story with the animals they have more faith. The version with God makes for a better story than the one without God. In the authors note Yann Martel promotes the better story by saying, “If we citizens do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.” (author's note xii). The better story contains God and therefore requires imagination and faith and represents the atheist. The story that makes more sense in reality sides with the agnostic because they have no faith and would not be able to believe in the better story. Pi creates the better story because he knows that he will not be able to forgive himself for the things he did in the real story. He even says, “It’s the plain truth plain truth: without Richard Parker, I wouldn’t be alive today to tell you my story” (Martel 164). Without the idea that Richard Parker did all the sinful actions he did Pi would not be able to forgive himself. The author even says, “After all these years, Richard Parker still preys on his mind” (Martel