Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. There are different types of religion practices, but there are some people who do not believe in anything at all. Everyone has their own opinions on the topic of religion. The Life of Pi by Yann Martel tells a story of a boy by the name Pi, who is stuck out in the middle of the ocean with a tiger name Richard Parker. The line that grabbed everyone’s attention right away is “I have a story that will make you believe in God” (x) The entire theme of the books focus on religion and how it operates within people.
Part one of the book is heavy in religion. It is set up to makes us believe that there is a higher power out there somewhere. The first time that we see religion in the book is when Pi is talking to one of his school teacher named Mr. Kumar. While at the zoo they had …show more content…
Pi uses faith to help him survive and strength. While floating in the life boat, watching the ship and his family sink, he sees Richard Parker. While coaching Richard Parker to the boat he says “And you, Ravi, dazzling hero of my childhood? Vishnu preserve me, Allah protect me, Christ save me, I can’t bear it” (98). This is an example of what people do when crisis arises. From experience, in religion people turn to god in moment when they are about to face their death or someone around them is about to face death. Instead of Pi calling out to one god he called out all of them because in his eyes he sees all of gods in the different religions as one, but in this moment of time he calls out to all of them hoping that they will all come. Martel is trying get us to see that a person can gain faith at any moment of their life. PI has faith before he gets on the boat, but if roles were reverse and he did not have faith he would gain it because people tend to call upon to God when events such as this were to
Part one of the book is heavy in religion. It is set up to makes us believe that there is a higher power out there somewhere. The first time that we see religion in the book is when Pi is talking to one of his school teacher named Mr. Kumar. While at the zoo they had …show more content…
Pi uses faith to help him survive and strength. While floating in the life boat, watching the ship and his family sink, he sees Richard Parker. While coaching Richard Parker to the boat he says “And you, Ravi, dazzling hero of my childhood? Vishnu preserve me, Allah protect me, Christ save me, I can’t bear it” (98). This is an example of what people do when crisis arises. From experience, in religion people turn to god in moment when they are about to face their death or someone around them is about to face death. Instead of Pi calling out to one god he called out all of them because in his eyes he sees all of gods in the different religions as one, but in this moment of time he calls out to all of them hoping that they will all come. Martel is trying get us to see that a person can gain faith at any moment of their life. PI has faith before he gets on the boat, but if roles were reverse and he did not have faith he would gain it because people tend to call upon to God when events such as this were to