Life Of Pi Psychology

Psychological Side of Things

This essay may make you see the psychology in life, Not to take everything so literally. Within the 100 chapters of Life Of Pi by Yann Martel, Piscine Molitor Patel, also known as Pi, tells a story of how he came close to religion and how he lost everything he had in a tragic shipwreck. But within that story, he mentions there can be two different ways to take a look at this story. Psychologically or literally.

Personally, I believe this all was a psychological test against his religion, faith and sanity. Pi realizes when God is needed most and he as well realizes the “animals” aboard the boat are just other people. A Bengal tiger named Richard Parker is Pi himself, an orangutan named Orange Juice is Pi’s mother.

From me believing more of the psychological sense, it shows I have more creativity and more of an open mind than most. Being that I take things in multiple ways, it shows different worlds and different opinions. When if you take it in a literal sense, you aren’t thinking with all that you can. You’re basically letting the world guide you and it’s almost as if you can’t think for yourself and show it. It’s a whole different level when thinking psychologically. You’re forming your own opinion and you’re thinking outside of the box and outside of the standards. That’s the one major takeaway from this book I’ve had. Don’t take everything so literally. Have an open mind. Decide for yourself. Quit letting the world guide you. It shows a whole other world when taking it either way. Most authors don’t make this approach in their writing because they want a definite ending. As well as it can seem intimidating to make sure everything comes full circle, like Life of Pi. With having no definite end, it allows the reader to choose the ending they want. Letting the story be more personalized to themselves and applying real life situations to the book. Such as some losing faith in the roughest points of their