He declares that “many people seem to lose God along life’s way. Pi, the nickname of a young Indian boy named Piscine Molitor Patel, is an active, spiritually curious child with an inclination towards religion who accepts upon himself all of the religions at hand in his childhood home of Pondicherry: Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. The book was written in response to the author’s spiritual searching and inner distress-“This book was born as I was hungry,” he attests (vii)-with the aim of liberating readers from the clutches of rational skepticism, regarded by Martel as a honeytrap, “A number of my fellow religious-studies students-muddled agnostics who didn’t know which way was up, were in the thrall of reason, that fool’s gold for the bright.” (5) “the agnostic to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.” (64) Adirubasamy that this was, indeed, a story to make you believe in God.” The author promises that his book will bring readers to a belief in God-“Then the elderly man said, ‘I have a story that will make you believe in God.’ I agreed with Mr. Yann Martel’s 2001 bestselling novel Life of Pi, later released in 2012 as a prize-winning box office hit, addresses themes such as religion, faith, imagination, and their relation to psychology and human life hope and despair and the struggle with human nature. The following is the first of a four-part series.
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