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Faith In Life Of Pi

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Towards the end of the novel, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Pi’s faith and hope is shown. His faith and hope contributed to his survival. Pi gave two versions of a story on how he survived 227 days stranded on a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean along with a bengal tiger named Richard Parker accompanying him. Through the use of his extreme detail, Pi created a very vivid and amazing story about his persistence to keep faith even in the face of death. The “better story” between the two told to the Japanese men from the Maritime Department in the Japanese Ministry of Transport, Mr.Okamoto and Mr.Chiba was created by revealing Pi’s belief in God.
There was a comparison between the first and second story. The difference between the two

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