Life of Pi is an interesting journey through life and faith in an extraordinary experience. Pi Patel is a man who speaks of his loss, his gain, and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.

Pi Patel is a Christian Hindu who underwent a series of unfortunate events. Troubles about his own name, chaotic exposure to different religious beliefs, his proximity to his family, his ultimate loss against natural causes, his strive to survive and the adequacy of his whole experience.

Imagining how his life could be so surreal, there’s no part in the story that is not interesting enough to not tell. He involved everyone who made a difference in his life. His uncle, who taught him how to swim; the one who swam in the clearest of waters in a French hotel, gave the idea of his name to his own father. The name he dare corrected to his peers and professors. By memorizing every number in the equation of pi, he proved that he is pi. Complicated as it were, no matter how different your name is, challenging your belief of anything brings you closer into harnessing the essence of it.

In his quotes, lines as it were, he emphasized that religion should be challenged in order for your faith to grow stronger as climbing through the metaphorical ladder to God. As Pi grew, so did his religious beliefs. Meeting or being introduced, discovering three different religions made him see that there is one god and many gods to believe in.

He met Christ as his older brother dared him to drink from the holy water. He grew ever so curious as to why God would give his son to suffer humanity’s sins. His curiosity grew fonder and his questions grew more specific yet still unanswered.

He met Muslim faith as he walked pass a temple full of men bowing on their knees, embracing the ground before them. He said, “I felt serene, as I bowed down to the ground. The feeling of peace through the earth I