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U4A6 Active Reading Journal Story telling is a prominent theme in Life of Pi by Yann Martel. When Pi tells the details of what happened to him to the reporters, it becomes a story. Pi tells many stories throughout the entire novel. He tells the story of his name and how he went from Piscine to Pi. He tells the story of how Richard Parker ends up in the Pondicherry Zoo and what his father said about being around the tiger. The stories the Pi tells influence his life very heavily, he selectively tells them because they are important to him. Pi also talks about religious stories. He is very involved in religion, as he is an official member of three of them. He says that they are very different in their beliefs, but they

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