The Influences In Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

Yann Martel’s life of Pi tells a story which set in a dangerous situation that almost no one can survive. However, there was on person whose name is Pi, he did it! Therefore, how Pi’s past have impacted his survival. Religion should be one of the elements which impact him a lot. Although religion has the strongest impact on Pi’s present and future, his swimming skills and family background are also indispensable to his survival.

In the book Life of Pi the author Yann Martel wrote about a young boy named Pi Patel surviving on a lifeboat by himself. Throughout the entire book Pi was very close to religion and in the end his religions were the main reason he had survived. At the start of the book Yann Martel introduces three religions, Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism. There are three main points that aided in Pi’s survival. One being that Pi was open to religions and started to follow the Islamic faith. The second reason is that Islam believed that one should pray five times a day, and Pi did exactly this. The last reason is that the religion

Pi feels it is okay to practice all three religions because they all have one goal or purpose which is the belief in God. Since each story he has heard is different, it does not take away from the main moral. This ties in with the imagination aspect because no matter how a story is told, the end result is the same. An example of this is when he is confronted and surrounded by the Priest, Pandit, and Imam. His response as to why he was practicing Hindu, Christian and Muslim faiths was, “Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.”(Page 76) Believing in all three religions is something Pi feels is important to him because he is just trying to love and pray to God in as many ways as possible. Although the stories are interesting, it doesn’t really matter how you got to the ending if the purpose of the story is the equal. The important of Pi’s imagination is triggered by this and has later gone into great effect. The religions he practices represent hat behind every reason, everyone has their own way of saying it, whether it be fiction or non-fiction.

Martel uses religion, such as Catholicism, to give Pi a reason and ability to survive in Life of Pi, shown in Christian symbolism, Pi’s introduction and reliance on religion, and his persistence in keeping his faith throughout his ordeal. Martel used substantial amounts of symbolism in his book to prove a point about how life relates to faith and religion. There are several ways Pi relied on his faith throughout the book. There are also several reasons why Pi stayed faithful during his ordeal in the Pacific.

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

Pi’s survival with Islam In The Life of Pi, Yann Martel creates a dynamic character who becomes shipwrecked at sea, stuck with nothing but his varied religions and a tiger. The exceptionally strict rules of the religion of islam, and the need for routine helped Pi to keep moving on and give him a reason to live. It gives him a routine to follow every day and a real reason to go on. At his darkest times, when Pi felt as if he had no reason to carry on, Islam gave him reason.

Unlike Christianity and Islam, Hinduism is a polytheistic religion. In addition, Pi believes in the “Truth, Unity, Absolute, and Climate Reality” of Hinduism (CITE). Pi believes in unity as shown by his practice of three different religions simultaneously. The fact that the religions are different does not affect Pi, so he unifies them into one system that satisfies his needs for faith and hope. Furthermore, Pi compares himself to Jesus, the savior.

Throughout his life, the protagonist in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi had the privilege to explore and practice multiple religions. Pi was first introduced to religion as a baby, when his Auntie Rohini brought him to visit a Hindu temple, an act he described as a Hindu rite of passage. Entranced by the colours and scents the temple had to offer, Pi describes the experience as “A germ of religious exaltation, no bigger than a mustard seed, was sown in me and left germinate. It has never stopped growing since that day” (52). Through this statement, Pi reflects his growing love and interest in Hinduism claiming that the universe makes sense to him through Hindu eyes, “…I have been a Hindu all my life. With its notions in mind I see my place in the universe” (54). Pi’s religious interest does not stop at Hinduism as he continues to explore

Yann Martel, the author of “Life of Pi” develops a strong theme of religion throughout the story through Pi’s curiosity of the practices and beliefs of different religions. For example Pi describes his introduction to Christianity in chapter 17. Once Father Martin, the priest of the church in Munnar welcomed him into the space, Pi began returning to visit Father Martin, and the priest told him the story of Jesus. Pi wondered at the strange psychology involved in Christ’s sacrifice, and he asked for other stories. Father Martin said that there is only one story in Christianity, and the whole basis of it is God’s love.

Religion was a very important aspect in Piscine Molitor Patel’s (Pi) life. When the story begins, Yann Martel (The Author) meets a man that says he will tell him a story that will make him believe in God (“Martel”). This started off the story by establishing that religion was going to be a major theme in the book. Pi followed three different religions, Hinduism, Christianity, and Muslim.

And the religion of India,would be the explanation to his path.Hinduism, has shown an extraordinary tolerance to other faiths.This is how pi has been challenged to explain each of the religions he has chosen from his parents he has known to compete with culture standards. It is the atmosphere of tolerance that probably gives Pi the freedom to explore other religions. Pi talks about his belief in Hinduism and the belief in rituals and in the Hindu world view. "Religion is more than rite and ritual. There is what the rite and ritual stand for.The way Pi shows him self to the people is how he has manners comming from a hudism culture from his parents.The second religion that Pi Patel embraces is Christianity. "I was fourteen years old and a well content Hindu, when I met Jesus Christ on holiday.Christ on holiday Although Hinduism seems more splendid to Pi, "he comes to embrace Christianity's message of

Does Martel’s Life of Pi treatment of religion give power to God or does it give power to works of fiction? Instead of giving power to the one versus the other, Martel is not trying to get the reader to believe in God, to prove his existence, but rather there is a justification of a person’s individual right to choose in believing in God. Life of Pi doesn’t try to question religion as an institution, but rather there is a focus on the debate between fact and fiction where “Martel’s position is a postmodernist one, from the perspective of which God’s existence has the same status in relation to truth and reality as Pi’s experience of shipwreck” (Stratton 6). In Martel’s work there isn’t a focus on what is to be more believable in either fiction or religion, but rather how there are no other alternative in between the two.

Pi has been greatly influenced by both Mr. Kumars, thus enhancing the theme of science and religion not having to be separate throughout Pi’s life, especially in college. When Pi states his level of education in the beginning of his story, oddly enough, he has two degrees of, “religious studies and zoology” (Martel 4). Pi has a strong faith, but also a love for animals and their behaviours. Martel’s organization of going from the end result of Pi’s childhood to his experiences with science and religion as a child helps the reader to see the impact of everyday role models in his life.

On the cover of the book we think that Life of Pi is going to be about a boy’s story of survival on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. This book in much, much more. We learn that Pi practices three religions, Hinduism, Christianity, and, Islam these religions give Pi an inner strength and his faith will be tested. This is an extraordinary story that gives us a boy’s view of a truly traumatic experience.

The novel “Life of Pi” illustrates the life of a character named Pi during his 227 days lost at sea. There is a strong connection between the author Yann Martel and the characters and setting in the story “Life of Pi.” Martel’s time spent in India was the major influence for this book as many of the characters and story are influenced by his experiences in India. The animals in the book, which play a major part in the story, are influenced primarily from Martel’s visit to the Trivandrum Zoo, which contains all the animals in the story except the orangutan. Religion also plays a major role in the story, which is influenced from Martel’s visit to India as he learned about the religious culture of India. Although Martel did not directly experience the events that occurred in “Life of Pi,” his time spent in India helped to influence his work.