While Pi encompasses deep faithful association and trust, his emphasis on the religion is more with an emotional attachment. Taking what he can from an emotional perspective to fit his life, he uses religion for different frameworks for which he can work out “kinks” in his life. These same elements help to draw a theme with Martel’s work overall, even though the believability of his story diminishes with the introduction of a lesser story. Whether or not either event happened, religion as an integral part of life, according to Life of Pi, should not change, as you trust based on faith, never on literal interpretation.

Overall, the book represents major post-modernist thinking, especially in the way the narrative changed focus throughout the novel and how the voice of the story changed with the person telling the story. It was never clear if the story could have factual context, because even in the biography of the author—the excerpt was not very serious and inappropriate. Since Life of Pi was fiction, it makes no claim to non-fiction or factual content, and the reader can rule out the blatant insignificance of the author’s note being something valid. The validity of the book, the validity of the story, and the truth about religion and zoology, based off the mental connection made between religion and zoology when Martel was younger, cohesively match this diatribe about whether believability has some credit to projected streams of faith.