Register to read the introduction…
Pi refers to him still being alive as a miracle which relates back to religion. Also, Pi says that as long as God is with him, he will not die. Pi knows that
God will always be with him so he is using that as motivation that he can and he will survive the rest of this horrendous journey. Pi was a very religious person so consequently religion was a major part of his life. It affected his thought process and daily decisions for example. Pi uses religion in the story more or less as an escape and as a distraction from what is happening in his life.
He kept his morals and values strong and as a result, he fights insanity. Imagine being in Pi’s position. Imagine losing everything your family, your belongings and being lost at sea. Your life is at risk primarily every minute of the day and you don’t know where you are or when this will end. You can imagine how easy being in this scenario can lead a person to insanity. It has been scientifically proven that traumatic events can take a toll on you and lead to loss of sanity. So you can see how Pi easily could’ve surpassed the border from sane to insane but his religion and his beliefs kept him sane. His religion acts as an …show more content…
I was puzzled. I thought, Darkness is the last thing that religion is. Religion is light. Was he testing me? Was he saying, ‘Religion is darkness,’ the way he sometimes said in class things like ‘Mammals lay eggs,’ to see if someone would correct him?”
(Martel 2930) In this quote, it is evident how strong his religion is because his naive mind is shocked and cannot believe that someone may have a completely opposite belief system and mindset when it comes to religion. Pi holds religion on such a high pedestal because it is what most of his life revolved around. When he was growing up, he was being raised with one certain religion and when he was older, he spent so much of his life learning about other religions. Pi’s survival is conditioned by his faith in religion. After shipwrecking, he already believes that his survival is work of God’s will, reflecting how much Pi is into religion. In this way, faith plays an important role in his struggle for surviving on the boat,
considering that he constantly turns to religion to the extent of praying several times daily, and never losing hope. Moreover, during his journey, Pi compares
God will always be with him so he is using that as motivation that he can and he will survive the rest of this horrendous journey. Pi was a very religious person so consequently religion was a major part of his life. It affected his thought process and daily decisions for example. Pi uses religion in the story more or less as an escape and as a distraction from what is happening in his life.
He kept his morals and values strong and as a result, he fights insanity. Imagine being in Pi’s position. Imagine losing everything your family, your belongings and being lost at sea. Your life is at risk primarily every minute of the day and you don’t know where you are or when this will end. You can imagine how easy being in this scenario can lead a person to insanity. It has been scientifically proven that traumatic events can take a toll on you and lead to loss of sanity. So you can see how Pi easily could’ve surpassed the border from sane to insane but his religion and his beliefs kept him sane. His religion acts as an …show more content…
I was puzzled. I thought, Darkness is the last thing that religion is. Religion is light. Was he testing me? Was he saying, ‘Religion is darkness,’ the way he sometimes said in class things like ‘Mammals lay eggs,’ to see if someone would correct him?”
(Martel 2930) In this quote, it is evident how strong his religion is because his naive mind is shocked and cannot believe that someone may have a completely opposite belief system and mindset when it comes to religion. Pi holds religion on such a high pedestal because it is what most of his life revolved around. When he was growing up, he was being raised with one certain religion and when he was older, he spent so much of his life learning about other religions. Pi’s survival is conditioned by his faith in religion. After shipwrecking, he already believes that his survival is work of God’s will, reflecting how much Pi is into religion. In this way, faith plays an important role in his struggle for surviving on the boat,
considering that he constantly turns to religion to the extent of praying several times daily, and never losing hope. Moreover, during his journey, Pi compares