Life of Pi #3- The Power of Choice

The ending for this book is so unique and interesting. It was the very last part of the book that made me decide I liked the book. Religion is a very important theme in this book that appears throughout the whole novel, there are a few important quotes in Life of Pi about believing and not believing in god. For example, “I can well imagine an atheist’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!”—and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeast less factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying, “Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain,” and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.” (p.70) This quote is crucial to the story. It explains way Pi does not like agnostics, because they do not make the ultimate choice.

After telling the story with the animals, the author Yann Martel, puts a twist in the book when Pi is explaining his story to the two officials from the Japanese Ministry of Transport, they do not believe him so than Pi tells another story replacing the animals with people, a cook instead of a hyena, a sailor instead of a zebra, his mother instead of the orangutan, and of course Pi as Richard Parker.

"'So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?'” (p.352) The ending is so unique because YOU have to decide what story you believe in. Its very similar to Inception, is he living in reality or is he dreaming?