Life Of Pi Religion Research Paper
Martel uses Life of Pi to show the us that through belief and faith, one can carry on through any situation, even against the most overwhelming of odds. The novel clearly demonstrates that “believing in God” and “believing in the soul-sustaining power of fiction” are intertwined ideas, the former simply being one way of viewing the latter: through the eyes of religion. Martel encourages us all to take the blind leap of faith and wholeheartedly believe in the power of fiction, no matter how fantastical or illogical it may seem, because if we never stretch our minds beyond the limits of reason, like agnostics, we will lack imagination and miss “the better story”. We will have compromised for a yeastless factuality, leaving us with nothing but