The real Life Of Pi, a novel by Yann Martel, tells the story of a sixteen year old Indian boy who survives at sea with a tiger for 227 days or 7 months. Piscine Molitor Patel, commonly known as Pi, is growing up in the Southern Indian city of Pondicherry where his father runs the zoo. Pi is a curious and intelligent fifteen- year- old boy who was born into the Hindu religion, but also studied the Christian and Muslim religions and considered himself to be follower of all three religions. At the end of the novel, and after spending 227 days on a boat with a tiger, Pi finds himself in a killer storm when he sees a large ship in the distance. Luckily, he has a flare and fires it in the air to draw attention to himself and his life-threatening …show more content…
Fortunately, someone on the ship sees the flare, and he is rescued and taken to a nearby hospital in Mexico. In the hospital, he’s interviewed by two Japanese reporters who ask him what happened after his cargo ship sank. He told two versions of the same story in which his mother is brutally killed: one retelling describes animals who represent humans, and the other details a story in which real humans actually kill his mother. The version of animals killing other animals, his mother included ,is the more believable version for readers who have faith that a spiritual world exists. People who can only believe in what they see likely believe in the human version. The story that is most believable to Pi is the animal version because he had faith in God, he needed to protect himself from the vision of the brutal murder of his mother, and he needed hope to be able to