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Life of Pi Reflection

The document provides a summary and reflection of the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel. It discusses several key themes of the novel, including the will to live and religious beliefs. Pi struggles for months at sea to survive, and is forced to abandon his vegetarian lifestyle to eat fish. The story also explores Pi's religious upbringing, as he practiced Catholicism, Hinduism, and Islam. While most of the novel is narrated from Pi's perspective, some chapters are narrated from the author's perspective and provide insights into Pi's life after his ordeal.

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Life of Pi Reflection

The document provides a summary and reflection of the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel. It discusses several key themes of the novel, including the will to live and religious beliefs. Pi struggles for months at sea to survive, and is forced to abandon his vegetarian lifestyle to eat fish. The story also explores Pi's religious upbringing, as he practiced Catholicism, Hinduism, and Islam. While most of the novel is narrated from Pi's perspective, some chapters are narrated from the author's perspective and provide insights into Pi's life after his ordeal.

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Aryanna Hinckley

Moosman

IB English 12

January 8, 2023

Life of Pi Reflection

The story is themed around many things such as storytelling, religious belief and

the will to live. It is obvious to see the main theme of having a will to live due to the fact that the

story is based around Piscine Molitor Patel’s (Pi) will to live that got him through the many

months at sea. As he struggles to survive it’s visible to see that no one just accepts their fate, Pi’s

gives up his life as a vegetarian to eat fish, Orange Juice, the peaceful orangutan, fights

ferociously against the hyena. Even the severely wounded zebra battles to stay alive; his slow,

painful struggle vividly illustrates the sheer strength of his life force. The Life of Pi is framed

around the Author’s, Yann Martel, narration of his learning of Pi’s story. Inside the framework

of Martel’s narration is the story of Pi’s journey. What is learned about Pi’s life, may not be fully

accurate, as the full account of what Pi went through is too horrid to study directly, however Pi

recounts what he went through by directing what he went through into human-like animals. We

see the aspects of religious beliefs primarily in the beginning where it is learned how Pi practices

3 religions - Catholicism, Hinduism and Islam. Life of Pi itself starts off with a narration from an

old man in Pondicherry who tells the narrator, “I have a story that will make you believe in

God.” Aswell we learn that Pi, an extraordinarily religious boy, admires his atheist teacher as

well as hates agnostics.

The story starts off with adult Piscine Molitor Patel (Pi) describing his life growing up,

his father worked as a zookeeper and Pi would wake up to the sounds of the zoo. Pi also
describes his life through college, particularly his research on three-toed sloths for his zoology

thesis. The storyline then jumps to the start of his recovery in Mexico, many people would come

visit his room to hear his story and when he was finally able to go to Canada, he was offended

when a waiter made a comment about him using his fingers. Later on the story gives an inside on

where Pi’s name comes from- a swimming pool. When describing Pi’s school life, the story

includes his take on religion, even talking about how Pi is Catholic, Hindu and Islamic. His

favorite teacher however is atheist and while he doesn’t hate atheists he does hate agnostics.

While most of the book seems to be in the narrative of Pi, there are a few chapters that are from

the point of view of the author, giving little tidbits of Pi’s present life. Mentioning his cooking

and how stocked on canned goods Pi is.

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