Question

The importance of storytelling and the will to live are two themes in Life of Pi. Which scene from the novel best demonstrates how these two themes interact?
A. Pi describes the Tsimtsum sinking while he is in the lifeboat.
B. Pi describes a second, more brutal, account of how he survived.
C. Martel describes his desire to live so he can write about Pi.
D. Martel describes how he felt when the novel he wrote in India failed.

Answer 1

The correct answer is B.

When Pi tells the second, more brutal account of what happened, the reader understands how important storytelling is to Pi and how changing the events into a story helped him survive. Furthermore, we can see how Pi had a will to live even in the face of certain death.