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
Yann Martel never tells us that one story is better than the other in Life of Pi until the end; however, he implied it through the entire novel. The first story is the better story; it requires a leap of faith. The animal story is magical, it’s colorful, and unusual. It teaches us the lesson of theism and belief in the supernatural. Its not childish or dumb to believe in God; it is sublime. Once you start to truly believe you will realize that this whole world is a miracle, a miracle made by God
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