Imagery is used precisely and elegantly when describing Pi’s journey afloat on a life raft after the sinking of the ship him and his family were on with a Bengal tiger known as Richard Parker. This rich detail is seen when describing the island on which they land as an “exceptional botanical discovery” and making assertions on the island’s diameter and such (Martel 246). Contrarily, Martel also exposes the potential facade of this story by offering up another version in which Pi merely watched his family die, his mother brutally murdered, and himself turned into a murderer of his mother’s attacker (Martel 304). With this second story, readers are instantly faced with the conflict to decide which story really happened. The imagery of both stories gives gand detail while the details in story one paint a mystical and magical tone, and the details of story two are conveyed as hopeless and dreadful. Thus, readers are asked to decide on their own values of truth whether reality is mysterious yet hopeful or believable and
Imagery is used precisely and elegantly when describing Pi’s journey afloat on a life raft after the sinking of the ship him and his family were on with a Bengal tiger known as Richard Parker. This rich detail is seen when describing the island on which they land as an “exceptional botanical discovery” and making assertions on the island’s diameter and such (Martel 246). Contrarily, Martel also exposes the potential facade of this story by offering up another version in which Pi merely watched his family die, his mother brutally murdered, and himself turned into a murderer of his mother’s attacker (Martel 304). With this second story, readers are instantly faced with the conflict to decide which story really happened. The imagery of both stories gives gand detail while the details in story one paint a mystical and magical tone, and the details of story two are conveyed as hopeless and dreadful. Thus, readers are asked to decide on their own values of truth whether reality is mysterious yet hopeful or believable and