The Motif Of Faith In Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

Religion and Faith – Just about everything Pi experiences he relates it to his strong religious beliefs because it brings him comfort. He continues to practise his Hindu, Christian and Islamic religious rituals by adapting them to his circumstances. Whenever he felt anger, despair and weariness, he would try to elevate himself by remind himself of all of God’s creations and his place in it. The darkness and hopelessness he felt would come and go, but God always remained in his heart which gave him the will to

As a child Pi hears the story of “The Fig Tree” and he says “I ask you, is it the fig tree’s fault that it's not the season for figs?” Consequently, his state of questioning the Christian faith can also be used to describe him in his later life (Martel 72). Just as the fig tree was not able to produce fruit because it was not the season for figs, Pi has acquired various things that are strange to most people and there was nothing he could have done about it (Martel 72). As Pi grew up he was never able to forget the people and animals he met while on the lifeboat and believed they were the reason he survived and constantly thanked them. Christians also pray to certain people whom they call Saints because they have done some deed for the church (“Roman Catholicism”). This is how the reader can tell that as Pi aged he remained deeply rooted in the faith and it was a prominent part of his life.

Life of Pi begins with an unique hook in its author’s note. In the author’s note, the fictional author is struggling to come up with a new book concept. He travels to India for inspiration and this is where he meets Francis Adirubasamy, or better known as Mamaji in the book. Adirubasamy claims that he has “a story that will make you believe in God”. After he recounts on the story, the author is determined to meet up with the main character, and he was reeled into the amazing world known as the Life of Pi. As the author listens into Mr. Patel’s adventure, his main objective was to believe in God and this was obviously completed from a quote in the author’s note. “...I agreed with Mr. Adirubasamy that this was, indeed, a story to make you believe in God.”

The way Pi acts throughout his journey suggests that having faith is one of the most important practises to learn as it can give an individual hope. Pi has a strong connection to all his practising faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. Society is set to have many unspoken rules that we must abide by to

5. The cook’s grotesque acts are important to note. In chapter 43, Pi describes the hyena as a remorseless creature that feels no disgust after making a mistake, and will even feast on it’s own kind. His actions suggest that humans resort to our basic instincts and animalistic roots when deprived of all familiarity—that humans and animals aren’t so different at

Pi knows his beliefs and strives to show others its strength. Throughout the book Pi develops in several ways, but his beliefs are the one thing that stay throughout his life. Pi deals with an immense amount of loss and through his faith became a stronger person. Pi, just like most people has central morals and changes through his

Life of Pi written by Yann Martel uses many literary devices to present the different themes in the novel; and allegory, along with its many examples, is prevalent in this novel as the number one mechanism to demonstrate the character and theme growth. Through religious allegory, symbolism, and imagery, Yann Martel uses Pi and his voice to make readers question the real meaning behind Life of Pi.

In our everyday lives, we have rarely been faced with situations where we had to fight to live. Whereas, in nature, the only law is survival of the fittest. When you apply “Horror” to Life of Pi, you will recall multiple events that demonstrated how wild animals use survival to live. Yann Martel uses the theme, of violence being a metaphor, to convey that in nature you have to fight to live.

At the end of the story he ask “Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?” These two men respond and admits that the animal story is the better one and through this readers can get a major theme of the book, faith. Through the whole story Pi’s survival is mainly because of faith in his religion. Although religion can not be proven he has faith that it is real. Likewise the realness of Pi’s story is the same as religion and readers will have to have faith in Pi’s journey of faith that the story is

The Life of Pi is a story about a young boy named Pi Patel, short for Piscine Patel. Pi was born and raised in India as the son of a zookeeper. At school, Pi was bullied because of his name. Kids thought it was funny because when you pronounce his first name sounds like you’re saying “pissing”. But that doesn’t stop him from learning and discovering new things. Being very curious, Pi begins to study many different religions, such as Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism; Even though his father says “Believing in everything at once, is the same thing as believing in nothing.”

Even if the alternate story were to be true, he lost his father and brother in the shipwreck and saw his mother murdered, the effects on Pi would still be the same. Nevertheless early on the book, it is shown that twenty years later lives with his loving wife, Meena, and two children, Nikhil and Usha.(Part 1, page

In part one of the book, Pi’s parents are furious when they find out that Pi is a follower of three different religions; Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam . When Pi is confronted about it he was told “he can’t be a Hindu, a Christian, and a Muslim. It’s impossible. He must choose.”(69) Pi responds to this by stating that he “just want(s) to love God.”(69) As the book goes on Pi begins to mature in ways he never thought was possible physically, spiritually and mentally. As Pi is growing up, he is also growing out of his innocence as he experiences traumatic events. Even though he is thrown all different kinds of obstacles Pi’s faith stays with him the whole time. The author develops the topic of faith by introducing it in a mellow way, as the

It is difficult to talk about the Life of Pi text without making a reference to faith, and the same goes with explaining Pi’s survival. Pi’s belief in pluralism and acceptance of the three religions, Hinduism, Christianity and Islam aid his future and is a crucial part of his survival at sea. His faith in knowing “so long as god is with me, I will not die” gives him the mental strength and will power to survive his ordeal. Even in the middle of the ocean, Pi practices all his religious rituals such as ‘‘solitary masses without consecrated Communion Hosts’’

The evident motif of religion plays a major factor in Pi’s life; however the author chooses not to focus on one religion specifically but instead enforces a glorification of more religions. Martel creates a main character who is a curious young boy who decides to learn about Christianity, Hinduism and Islam all at once. Even though Pi is primarily

Religion impacts the world in different ways.Such as economy, culture, politics and attitude towards life.It stays with us no matter what time is it harsh time, or happy time.Charles Darwin, English Naturalist, once said, “Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.” Similarly, a few years ago, one of my friends, he suffers a depression after his brother passed away in a traffic accident.He starts to kill himself.One normal summer night, everyone is celebrating the last day of school, he decided to kill himself.But then was stopped by his mother.His mother tries to think some ways to help his son.But ran out of options, she decided to bring his son to church.And it works, my friend became more focus on religion. End up he devotes himself to god.Life of Pi by Yann Martel which talks about exploring religions and find the real you.The main character named Pi who suffers the loss of his parents and he is survivor's story for months in the Pacific ocean on a Lifeboat along with a tiger, Richard Parker. In ‘Life of Pi by Yann Martel, the use of symbols: The Algae Island, the Tsimtsum, the colour orange, and Richard Parker shape the central message of the novel. Ultimately those symbols represent pi’s spiritual journey.