In Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi, choices inundate the story. For Piscine Molitor Patel, Pi for short, there is the choice in which story he chooses to tell, faith he chooses to believe in and choice in what moral beliefs to abide by. As for the reader, choice is just as much present if not more, with the choice to decide whether the narrator is reliable or not, choice in the better story and choice in personal moral values. Yann Martel prefaces Life of Pi with a fictitious authors note, a make-believe author telling the story. It is within the author’s note, relating Pi’s survival to a story as a “story that will make you believe in God”, the notion of storytelling to explain tragic, the uncomfortable or mundane. Through storytelling, the
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In the same vein, when Pi returns to civilization, laying on the beach, survival mode disappears because it is no longer called for but will always be with [him], in my heart”(286) just as Richard Parker will be, after his departure. Furthermore, the parallel could be made between Richard Parker and God. Despite being in fear of Richard Parker, Pi could not survive without him and confessed his love for the animal often, confessing “a part of [him] was glad about Richard Parker…/If [he] still had the will to live, it was thanks to Richard Parker”(Martel 164). There were times where Pi questioned and condemned God during his times of solitude and suffering but comes around to reclaiming his faith stating, “the presence of God is the finest reward”(Martel 63). This parallels hits a much larger target, in the actual existence of God. There are many who believe the better story such as the Japanese men, and “so it goes with God”(Martel 317). But others find it too hard to believe “the hard to believe,” questioning the presence of the tiger, not allowing for faith to be a large enough
In the same vein, when Pi returns to civilization, laying on the beach, survival mode disappears because it is no longer called for but will always be with [him], in my heart”(286) just as Richard Parker will be, after his departure. Furthermore, the parallel could be made between Richard Parker and God. Despite being in fear of Richard Parker, Pi could not survive without him and confessed his love for the animal often, confessing “a part of [him] was glad about Richard Parker…/If [he] still had the will to live, it was thanks to Richard Parker”(Martel 164). There were times where Pi questioned and condemned God during his times of solitude and suffering but comes around to reclaiming his faith stating, “the presence of God is the finest reward”(Martel 63). This parallels hits a much larger target, in the actual existence of God. There are many who believe the better story such as the Japanese men, and “so it goes with God”(Martel 317). But others find it too hard to believe “the hard to believe,” questioning the presence of the tiger, not allowing for faith to be a large enough