Life of Pi Essay
How Important is the Notion of Believability in this Novel?
Yann Martel’s novel is based around very fictitious ideas and events which convey the notion that believability is very important and plays a major role in making Life of Pi engaging. Through Martel's language and structure, he indirectly forces the audience into believability. By using factual references, Martel successfully captures and portrays realism in the events, thus making fictitious ideas and the text believable. This essay will discuss and examine how important the notion of believability is to this novel through the language techniques of repetition, metaphors, punctuation, truncation and many more. This essay will discuss extensively the reason for believing, belief itself and the result of believing.
The novel is focused around the main character Piscine Molitor Patel ( Pi ), who is an Indian boy born and raised up in a family which ran a zoo in Pondicherry. As the result of a land dispute, the Patel family were forced to sell their land and all the animals on their property. Whilst on a boat which carried his family and many zoo animals on the way to Canada, a big storm hit, which caused the boat to sink, as a result, leaving only pi, and the only other survivor, a fully grown adult male Bengal tiger by the name of ' Richard Parker ' on a small lifeboat, isolated in the pacific. Hard to believe isn't it?
Rearing the end of the novel, Pi tells two Japanese reporters who interview him at Mexico many things that are difficult to believe, but we convince ourselves to do so nonetheless. We surrender ourselves to these variants on reality, these fictions, because they give us a reason to keep going. Where is the joy in a life deprived of romance and passion? Where is the comfort in an existence that has no light or reason? A life that is entirely rational or fact based is a life worth not living at all. This can be seen in the expression: " Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is
Yann Martel’s novel is based around very fictitious ideas and events which convey the notion that believability is very important and plays a major role in making Life of Pi engaging. Through Martel's language and structure, he indirectly forces the audience into believability. By using factual references, Martel successfully captures and portrays realism in the events, thus making fictitious ideas and the text believable. This essay will discuss and examine how important the notion of believability is to this novel through the language techniques of repetition, metaphors, punctuation, truncation and many more. This essay will discuss extensively the reason for believing, belief itself and the result of believing.
The novel is focused around the main character Piscine Molitor Patel ( Pi ), who is an Indian boy born and raised up in a family which ran a zoo in Pondicherry. As the result of a land dispute, the Patel family were forced to sell their land and all the animals on their property. Whilst on a boat which carried his family and many zoo animals on the way to Canada, a big storm hit, which caused the boat to sink, as a result, leaving only pi, and the only other survivor, a fully grown adult male Bengal tiger by the name of ' Richard Parker ' on a small lifeboat, isolated in the pacific. Hard to believe isn't it?
Rearing the end of the novel, Pi tells two Japanese reporters who interview him at Mexico many things that are difficult to believe, but we convince ourselves to do so nonetheless. We surrender ourselves to these variants on reality, these fictions, because they give us a reason to keep going. Where is the joy in a life deprived of romance and passion? Where is the comfort in an existence that has no light or reason? A life that is entirely rational or fact based is a life worth not living at all. This can be seen in the expression: " Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is