one perspective is outlined. Yann Martel wrote Life is Pi in first-person, causing readers to view the book through the perspective of the narrator, Piscine Patel. Yann Martel does this to cause readers to speculate between the animal story, that involves clues of unreliable narration, and the human story. Pi becomes an unreliable narrator through the trauma he faces, use of a dream rag, and his experience with events that distorted his memory. Pi experiences enough trauma for him to “reach a
Loving God In his novel, Life of Pi, Yann Martel presents readers with the seemingly unbelievable story of Piscine Patel, a young Indian boy on a journey toward spiritual enlightenment. In his own words, his end goal is to “just love God” (Martel 69). He ends up adrift in the middle of the great Pacific Ocean with a Royal Bengal Tiger for 227 days and miraculously manages to survive. Through his use of irrationalities and a range of religious elements from different religious faiths, including symbols
action novel Life of Pi, he conveys Pi’s journey in a way that can be told through allegories that pertain to everyday life. The carnivorous island that Pi falls upon in the ocean is an allegory of how the island is like being stuck in lies; this is presented by how the island and lies both are hard decisions to make but they happen, they both provide comfort and stability for a brief moment, and they ultimately eat up the subconscious until the truth is revealed. To illustrate, Pi stumbling upon