Truth In Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

All throughout the Life of Pi, Yann Martel leaves readers cynical through coinciding both fictional and nonfictional elements into his story. The use of anomalous animals, an Indian boy of multiple religions, as well as a carnivorous algae island provoke feelings of skepticism while keeping within the realm of reality. While nearly everything Martel applies to his novel is as peculiar as it seems, readers are still capable of discerning an element of veracity from the overall story. In spite of this, one particular aspect which readers of the story aren’t quite able to wrap their heads around is which of Pi’s two stories holds more truth. It may be argued that the most logistical story is that including the animals due to its development for a capacious amount of the novel. But from a thorough analyzation of the novel in its entirety, the story containing the animals is told alternately as a way of concealing the savagery of humans presented in the alternate story and as a way of accentuating our use of anthropomorphism throughout our lives. A manifest avowal regarding the truth is never given by Piscine Molitor Patel. Perhaps this is done to perpetuate the phenomenal storytelling presented in the first story. However, though it is not immediately apparent, each story’s

This can be seen evidently as Pi unfolds his unimaginable allegory to Mr. Okamoto and Mr. Chiba. Pi’s assertion that their prospective encounters with Richard Parker were improbable as, “He [was] hiding somewhere [they would] never find him.", implies a spiritual rather than physical presence. Richard Parker’s symbol of human savagery and protection was no longer vital to sustaining the loneliness and needs of Pi which provides a justification for his unceremonious farewell from Pi’s life. Thus revealing Richard Parker’s dissimilitude and reintegrating Pi’s mind into