Illusions In Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

According to Yann Martel in Life of Pi, fear provokes flight to safety, desperation for hope, and illusion of desires.

In Life of Pi, Pi and his family flee from Pondicherry to safety out of fear of losing their zoo to the unjust government. "Mrs. Gandhi could have personally bombed the zoo... too see his father sick of worry" (Martel, 87). Mr. Patel was frightened by the power that Mrs. Gandhi had over India and feared having his territory invaded and the risk of losing everything he had worked so hard for. For the same token, humans as well as animals have a certain flight distance and flee to find safety at the mere threat to invade it. "The key aim is to diminish an animal 's flight distance, which is the minimum distance which an animal

Consequently, he had illusions of his desired circumstances. "I laughed. I knew it. I wasn 't hearing voices. I hadn 't gone mad. It was Richard Parker who was speaking to me!" (Martel, 273). Given that Pi had been stuck at sea for a long-time with a Bengal tiger, Richard Parker- which one does not just get over- he most probably had illusions of him having a conversation with the latter. Then again, Pi had numerous times where he could not distinguish reality from illusions," I opened my eyes. In the near distance I saw trees. I did not react. I was certain it was an illusion that a few blinks would make disappear" (Martel, 284). Not to mention, Pi had been questioned about the legitimacy of his story. Notably," Mr. Patel, we don 't believe your story... it doesn 't hold up" (Martel, 324). Further into the interview with the Japanese officials, Pi is constantly told how absurd and unbelievable the story is," I 'm sorry to say it so bluntly, we don 't mean to hurt your feelings, but you don 't really expect us to believe you, do you? Carnivorous trees? A fish-eating algae that produces fresh water? Tree-dwelling aquatic rodents? These things don 't exist" (Martel, 326). Additionally, Pi 's claims could not be proven in any way because all he had was his word which was not trust worthy since he had been stuck at sea alone and could have invented anything to make the story a bit more extravagant according to the