The author's literary style could be described as both casual and lyrical, and has the first person narrative style.
Yann Martel's Life of Pi is about the story of a young boy's survival journey aboard a lifeboat over a period of months and confined along with a Bengal tiger. The writing the author used was considered to be both casual and lyrical which is hard to pull off together. The writing style basically means the way the author chooses to tell his story through word choice, sentence structure, and voice to fit into the purpose of the story, martel choose for going with uncomplicated and casual language to order to tell the story, and the word choice is straightforward and simple.
Secondly, he chose the omniscient narrator, in order the narrate the novel, the omniscient narrator knows and tells the inner thoughts of the story's characters, which is also called the first person narrative style which is different from second person narrator, where the narrator writes to a person or people, sometimes even to the reader.
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D is the most appropriate thesis statement for a literary analysis paper. D explains the literary elements used along with a portion of the story's plot.