Life of Pi by Yann Martel is about the belief and faith of Piscine Molitor Patel. It is also about his journey and survival on a lifeboat. These challenges helped deepen Pi's religious destiny. You can see the analogy between religion and fiction throughout the novel. From the beginning, Patel asserts that the tale will make you believe in God. In "The Life of Pi", Yann Martel uses Piscine Patel's stories about his religious encounters and travels to make Martel believe in God. Pi is subjected to many trials during his journey. He is tested on his spirituality on the mysterious island he encounters during his journey. “He must endure his deepest spiritual test in the form of a mysterious island, which proves to be a symbol of the failure of blind faith as an uncritical framework for understanding the world.” (Dyer 148). Pi realizes that he was wrong in believing that the island will provide for him. He then realizes that the island will lead him to his own death and will not be able to provide for himself. Throughout Pi's journey, he applies his religious beliefs from Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. The ideas of these religions helped him survive on the lifeboat. Pi uses his faith as a tool for survival when his faith is tested on the island. When he approaches the island, he hopes it can provide him with more than the lifeboat he is on with Richard Parker. When Pi gets off his lifeboat on the island, it may be a leap of faith because he doesn't know what will happen on this mysterious island. Pi praises God for this island, for the trees and the earth. He connects trees to Islam, weaving cloth and his faith. He claims that trees come from algae. When Pi looks back on his faith in the island, he sees that the once stable ground is... middle of paper... believes in God. “This reader's disbelief finds a more explicit analogy in the two Japanese interviewers' initial skepticism about the story of Pi's survival for 227 days in a lifeboat with the tiger Richard Parker” (Cole 150). In the novel, Pi discusses "Animalus Anthropomorphicus how an animal is seen through the eyes of man". it should not be confused with the human characteristics of animals. Pi was interested in a trinity of religions and his destiny in these religions helped him survive his journey across the Pacific Ocean with Richard Parker. These challenges helped ensure Pi's fate in these religions. He says it was because of his belief in God that he survived. Yann Martel tells the story of Piscine wonderfully because he betrays the story through the eyes of the teenager Pi. Works CitedMartel, Yann. Life of Pi: a novel. New York: Harcourt, 2001. Print.