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Norwood English 9/7/06 Life of Pi Quotation Analysis In the quote I selected from Life of Pi, Pi is confront by a pandit, imam and a priest who all want him to belong to their own religion and they all agree that Pi must belong to a religion and not worship all three. Pi’s family is in agreement with the religious figures and ask him to make a decision on one religion to follow. Pi’s desire to belong to all three religions is not because he cannot decide between which way to worship, it is because he is so devout and pious that he just wants to show his devotion and love to god. When on the Boat with Richard Parker, Pi does not forget his religion and prays multiple times everyday. After praying and praying for weeks, Pi has seen no answer from God. Pi begins to lose his sight, a obvious symbol for his religious faith in God answering him when he was in desperate need of help, and finds himself with a Frenchman who comes up to his boat. After Richard Parker kills and eats him, Pi finds himself on a mysterious island and his sight begins to come. His sight comes back because his faith is reborn that maybe god had answered him after all of Pi’s devoted prayer. Only later would Pi realize that what he thought was an island was a mass of floating algae in the middle of the ocean, killing and eating fish. I found Pi’s religious roller coaster similar to that of Mr. Kumar, the atheist that Pi had become friends with earlier.