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Life Of Pi Faith Quotes

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“ If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for?” ( Martel 297) Sometimes in life the only thing we have to hold onto in the hard times is faith that things will get better. Faith keeps us going. Complete confidence or trust is someone or something is the definition for faith. I have faith in a lot of things and faith plays a big part in my life. It also plays a big part in the book Life of Pi where the quote came from in the first sentence. Faith helps the main character Pi get through his rough time on the ocean and help him tell his story. Faith is something that I and a fictional character in a book both have in common. We have faith in life. Pi has lots of faith. In the book he tells us about his religion and how he …show more content…

The men think it is very unlikely that a tiger a lifeboat and a ocean would all exist together in one whole and create this situation Pi is saying that happened. Mr. Okamoto says “ We find it very unlikely.” (Martel 299) but Pi responds “So is winning the lottery, yet someone always wins.” ( Martel 299). This quote is very powerful and very meaningful in the way Pi put it so maybe just maybe the officials will believe him. Even know its very small chance there is still a chance this happened and you never know what the world will bring or what will happen. You could only get one lottery ticket and that could be the winning ticket. There is still a chance and you take chances with faith that something could happen good or bad. Just because you haven't seen anything like this in your experience on the Earth doesn't mean there is not a possibility for it. We play this game and things happen that we never thought could happen but we fall on faith to kind of wish and hope and believe something like this could happen. I know a lot of people think of faith and think of religion but it doesn't just have to be religion it is other things like this

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