Life of Pi: the Good Kind of Lie

Sometimes a lie is bring reveal than the fairness. Now Im non saying that you should lie to your pargonnts about the dent on their car or lie to your fri annihilates about getting lucky with that girlfriend last weekend, alone every so often a positioning buzz offs along in which a small fabrication will better warrant the situation. In the novel Life of Pi, the author Yann Martel tells a marvelous written report about a young boy at sea, trap on a lifeboat with a 450lb Bengal tiger.During their journey, the unlikely casta meanss face an epic bet on of survival crossing paths with such characters as a homicidal hyena, a motherly orangutan, a dead on arrival zebra, and a french blind cannibal. In the end the two find sanctuary later 227 days upon their arrival to the coast of Mexico. Now I know what youre thinking. This sounds pretty unbelievable. Well youre repair to think so, besides the truth in this case, is something youre better off not knowing.The end of the nove l brings about the knowledge that the animals in the chronicle were in item people and their grim deaths, including that of his mother, Pi had witnessed. Given the setting, this shouldnt be inviten as a lie, tho rather as tommyrot telling. The act of apologue telling is a great thing. It can drum up guess in the heart of the audience, gain you feel a great sess of emotion for someone youve never met or isnt even real, but to some it is a way to allot with an occurrence in which the truth is too terrible to deal with.Weve forever been taught never to lie and therefore it is an act that is seen as wrong be any means, however, given the right circumstances telling a lie, whether it be to yourself or to others, is the best executable way to avoid a traumatic experience of the past. Throughout the story Pi tells the more enjoyable version of his story, though the realization of this does not occur to the reader until the end of the novel. Through retrospection it is easy to see the fiction and the significance it holds.To the best of my knowledge the first severalise of the story appears to all be true, however, in this segment Pi does find way to utter his distaste for those who only wish to believe what can be proven true and logical. The best example can be be in chapter 22 in its entirety. Being a strong worshiper in God, so much so that he embraces three of His religions, it is strike that Pi can easily accept the choices of Atheists, but denounce those who are agnostic (those who dont know who to side on the subject).Chapter 22 reads, I can well imagine an atheists last words , White, snow-covered 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, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm lessen bathing him by saying, possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain, and, to the very end, lack whim and miss the better story. (Martel 80) P i describes factuality as dry and yeastless, shape up streng thusing the readers controling of how he feels about logical facts. The second actuate of this quote that is significant is his use of the phrase the better story. demo that what isnt real is often the better.With the end of Part one(a) of the novel comes then end of whats real and transitions into fiction. Since the second part of the story is a fabrication in its entirety, it seems redundant to try to state the many times when fiction trumps over the truth. Instead, it seems that the better idea would be to pinpoint the section where Pi is driven to admit the truth cornerstone his adventure at sea. The best examples of the fact vs. fiction theme come after a lengthy interrogation on Pi by Two Japanese men who represent the company who owned the behind which was transporting Pi and his family across the ocean.After being asked the true nature of his story one too many times Pi finally bust the ice with the simple question, So you want another story? (380) This was then followed by the significant statement, The world isnt just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesnt that mother life a story? through examination of this comment it is ground that he means that life is just a story told by the storyteller.Pi is saying that he willing to tell the to representatives the real story, but in knowing the real story they are missing out on the previously discussed better story. He brings this up still with the quote, I know what you want. You want a story that wont surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That wont make you see higher or further or differently.You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality. (381) Its obvious that Pi is model the two men once more that the truth isnt always what you want to hear and also further representing the theme of truth vs. iction. thou gh this novel is filled with different themes, and many of those who read it speculate on which is the main theme. I believe that the theme of the importance of story telling is without a doubt, Yann Martels main point that he tries to get across to the reader. He makes it evident in all parts of the story and the building at the end is based on the subject. In all it is chief(prenominal) to remember that lying is bad, but sometimes the truth is too. Storytelling is a well-grounded medium between the two and can even help to cope with the most traumatic of experiences.