Life of Pi: Journey of Values and Self-Exploration

This story, from my viewpoint, is a fanatic one. The realness the author involves in the story makes readers believing. On the other hand, he wants to describe how hard the life of the protagonist, PI’s life was. This story starts with normal family life, with their own business. All members of Pi’s family were zoologists; in their lives, everything was connected with animals. Pi was a kid that was believing in all religions. He believed in all religions because he thought God is one, but people believe in it, in different ways. In his school days, his school friends were joking with his name, because the English version of his name has a specific meaning. One day his parents informed him that they would move with their animals to Canada. Pi was very unhappy about this decision because he just falls in love with a beautiful Indian girl. With all the animals they had, they went to Canada, with a ferry. After a few days on a ferry, the bad weather condition resulted in a ferry crash, in which Pi was the only one from his family that was still alive, but Pi was not alone. With him on the security boat, he was with the tiger, hyena, and zebra. He was with the tiger until the last day at sea, until they arrived at the land of Mexico, after 227 days at sea. After they arrived on the land, the tiger left him, and he was saved a person in Mexico. At the end of the story, three journalists made to Pi interview, but they did not believe him, what he was saying to them, they did not believe that he was 227 days at sea with a tiger. The three main themes that make the three conflicts and the plot in the story are: “THE WILE TO LIVE”, “THE IMPORTANCE OF STORYTELLING” And “THE NATURE OF RELIGIONS BELIEF”.

From “THE WILE TO LIVE”, point of view, PI’s will that he will survive, together with the tiger Richard Parker. He was 227 days at sea, but he never lost his will that he will survive. He was trying to improvise water, food, not just for him, on the contrary, he was finding food and water, first of all, for the tiger. Life of Pi is an anecdote about attempting to get by through apparently outlandish chances. The wrecked occupants of the little raft don’t just submit to their destiny: they effectively battle against it. Pi relinquishes his deep-rooted vegetarianism and eats fish to continue himself. Squeezed orange the tranquil orangutan battles savagely against the hyena. Indeed even the seriously injured zebra fights to remain alive; his moderate agonizing battle clearly outlines the sheer quality of his life power. As Martel clarifies in his novel living animals will regularly do remarkable surprising and now and then chivalrous things to endure. In any case, they will likewise do despicable and savage things whenever squeezed. The hyena’s injustice and the visually impaired Frenchman’s move in the direction of savagery show exactly how far animals will go when looked with the probability of elimination. Toward the finish of the novel when pi raises the likelihood that the wild tiger Richard Parker is really his very own part character and that pi himself is liable for a portion of the terrible occasions he has portrayed the peruser is compelled to choose exactly what sorts of activities are satisfactory in a critical circumstance. “You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result, I perked up and felt much better.”(Yann Martel, Life of Pi). With this quote, Pi showed how he is fighting to be alive, and how he did not lose hope, that he will still be alive.

From “THE IMPORTANCE OF STORYTELLING”, Life of Pi is a story inside a story. The epic is encircled by an (anecdotal) note from the creator, Yann Martel, who portrays how he initially came to hear the awesome story of Piscine Molitor Patel. Inside the structure of Martel's portrayal is Pi's fantastical first-individual record of life on the untamed ocean, which frames the heft of the book. Toward the finish of the novel, a transcript taken from a cross-examination of Pi uncovers the conceivable 'genuine' story inside that story: that there were no creatures by any stretch of the imagination, and that Pi had gone through those 227 days with other human survivors who all, in the long run, died, leaving just himself. Pi, be that as it may, isn't a liar: to him, the different adaptations of his story each contain an alternate sort of truth. One rendition might be truthfully valid, however different has a passionate or topical truth that the other can't approach. All through the novel, Pi communicates scorn for realists who just put their confidence in 'dry, yeastless factuality,' when stories—which can stun and motivate audience members and will undoubtedly wait longer in the creative mind—are, to him, unendingly unrivaled. Narrating is additionally a method for endurance. The 'genuine' occasions of Pi's ocean journey are too terrible to even think about contemplating legitimately: any little youngster would go crazy whenever he looked with the sorts of acts Pi (in a roundabout way) tells his integrators he has seen. By recasting his record as a fantastic story about humanlike creatures, Pi doesn't need to confront the genuine cold-bloodedness individuals are really able to do. Thus, by making the character of Richard Parker, Pi can repudiate the brutal, fierce side of his character that enabled him to get by on the sea. Indeed, even this isn't, actually, a lie in Pi's eyes. He accepts that the tiger-like part of his temperament and the enlightened, human viewpoint remain intense restriction and periodic organization with each other, similarly as the kid, Pi and the tiger Richard Parker are the two adversaries and partners. “These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart” (Yann Martel, Life of Pi). With this quote, Pi tell as a story inside a story. With this quote, he showed the storytelling in this book.

From “THE NATURE OF RELIGIONS BELIEF”, Life of Pi starts with an elderly person who tells the storyteller, 'I have a story that will cause you to put stock in God.' Narrating and strict conviction are two firmly connected thoughts in the novel. On an exacting level, every one of Pi's three religions, accompany its very own arrangement of stories and tales, which are utilized to desperado the lessons and outline the convictions of the confidence. Pi appreciates the abundance of stories, however he likewise faculties that, as Father Martin guaranteed him was valid for Christianity, every one of these accounts may basically be parts of a more noteworthy, all-inclusive anecdote about adoration. Stories and strict convictions are additionally connected in Life of Pi since Pi declares that both require confidence with respect to the public or lover. Shockingly for such a strict kid, Pi respects agnostics. To him, the significant thing is to trust in something, and Pi can value a skeptic's capacity to put stock without God with no solid verification of that nonattendance. Pi has only scorn, nonetheless, for skeptics, who guarantee that it is difficult to know in any case, and who accordingly abstain from owning a complete expression on the topic of God. Pi considers this to be proof of a dishonorable absence of a creative mind. To him, skeptics who can't make an act of pure trust in either heading resemble audience members who can't value the non-exacting truth an anecdotal story may give. 'I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness' (Yann Martel, Life of Pi). With this quote, Pi at the beginning of this story, presenter himself in front of biology teacher.

In conclusion, Life of Pi is a book that tells us a nonrealistic story, which looks like a real one. In this book, the will that Pi will survive is the central theme and the thing from which we need to learn in our lives. The specific way in which the author introduced us in Pi’s life, connected Pi’s image with readers' pictures and makes a lot of different visual views of his life. From my point of view, while reading a lot of times, I imagined myself in Pi’s place. To sum up, this was a fantastic book.