Life of Pi
In the novel Life of Pi, by Yann Martell, the narrator presents two stories that make us question reality. Piscine Molitor Patel is portrayed as a confused Indian boy who has gone through life just wanting to believe. As he tries to believe in three religions, he explains that, “all religions are true.’ [He just wants] to love God” (87). When Pi presents these two stories that “will make you believe in God”, the likelihood of the story without the animals being “the better story” is slim (x) (398). Although it is similar to the story with the animals, it contains only “dry, yeastless factuality” that will only “confirm what you already know” (381). Furthermore, the true story is the one with the animals because the story without the animals “won’t make you see higher or further or differently” (381).
The story with animals “contradicts reality”, so believing this story is hard for some like, Mr. Okamoto and Mr. Chiba (380). However, Pi believes it’s just “the selective form of reality” that he’s storytelling (vi). In this story, he’s stuck on a boat for 227 days with a bengal tiger, an orangutan, a hyena, and a zebra. All of which die on that boat, except for the bengal tiger, Richard Parker. Pi and Richard Parker embark on an unbelievable journey, on a lifeboat sailing through the Pacific Ocean. On this journey, they go through hell and Pi lives to tell the tale. As Pi’s questioned by the two japanese men about all of the unbelievable things that he’s encountered, he makes the impossible, possible. When the japanese said that the island was “botanically impossible”; Pi proved them wrong by presenting them with the meerkat bones (372). Pi believes that the art of storytelling is “the twisting of it to bring out its essence”(vi).
Although both stories are supposed to be the same, there were many technicalities that clashed with the first story. However, Pi did anthropomorphized the characters from the second story for his first. As is may seem, the story
The story with animals “contradicts reality”, so believing this story is hard for some like, Mr. Okamoto and Mr. Chiba (380). However, Pi believes it’s just “the selective form of reality” that he’s storytelling (vi). In this story, he’s stuck on a boat for 227 days with a bengal tiger, an orangutan, a hyena, and a zebra. All of which die on that boat, except for the bengal tiger, Richard Parker. Pi and Richard Parker embark on an unbelievable journey, on a lifeboat sailing through the Pacific Ocean. On this journey, they go through hell and Pi lives to tell the tale. As Pi’s questioned by the two japanese men about all of the unbelievable things that he’s encountered, he makes the impossible, possible. When the japanese said that the island was “botanically impossible”; Pi proved them wrong by presenting them with the meerkat bones (372). Pi believes that the art of storytelling is “the twisting of it to bring out its essence”(vi).
Although both stories are supposed to be the same, there were many technicalities that clashed with the first story. However, Pi did anthropomorphized the characters from the second story for his first. As is may seem, the story