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The theme of the novel and characterization of Pi is formed through the willing suspension of disbelief by the relationship Pi has with his faith versus critical thinking.

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 Disbelief and awe developed the story line and Pi’s relationship with religion. 

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 Disbelief and awe developed the story line and Pi’s relationship with religion. 

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"And what a story. The first thing that drew me in was disbelief”(Martel, 53).

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 Father Martin, the first priest he comes across, explains the stories of the Bible to Pi; thus sparking the beginning of Pi's religious journey.

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 Father Martin, the first priest he comes across, explains the stories of the Bible to Pi; thus sparking the beginning of Pi's religious journey.

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“That is God as God should be. With shine and power and might. Such as can rescue and save and put down evil”(Martel, 55).

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This evidence can pose as a counterargument, as it explains that doubt and disbelief make one immobile, or ignorant. 

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This evidence can pose as a counterargument, as it explains that doubt and disbelief make one immobile, or ignorant. 

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“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation”(Martel, 28).

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Pi's religious faith and understanding is questioned with reason and knowledge; two opposing ideas. 

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Pi's religious faith and understanding is questioned with reason and knowledge; two opposing ideas. 

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“There are no grounds for going beyond a scientific explanation of reality and no sound reason for believing anything but our sense experience. A clear intellect,close attention to detail and a little scientific knowledge will expose religion as superstitious bosh. God does not exist” (Martel, 27).

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This evidence matters because it describes both the negative and positive outcomes of falling into the willing suspension. 

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This evidence matters because it describes both the negative and positive outcomes of falling into the willing suspension. 

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“There were many seas. The sea roared like a tiger. The sea whispered in your ear like a friend telling you secrets. The sea clinked like small change in a pocket. The sea thundered like avalanches. The sea hissed like sandpaper working on wood. The sea sounded like someone vomiting. The sea was dead silent”(Martel, 114).

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The two thematic ideals, disbelief and reason, try to combat each other, but also work to characterize Pi.

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The two thematic ideals, disbelief and reason, try to combat each other, but also work to characterize Pi.

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“Doubt meets disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out. But disbelief is a poorly armed foot soldier. Doubt does away with it with little trouble. You become anxious. Reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superior tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid low. You feel yourself weakening, wavering. Your anxiety becomes dread”(Martel, 161).

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It acts as evidence as to why Pi chose to follow religion over reason when faced with tragedy. 

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It acts as evidence as to why Pi chose to follow religion over reason when faced with tragedy. 

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"So am I! I applied my reason at every moment. Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater”(Martel, 163).

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Not only does it portray Pi’s undying devotion to his religious beliefs, but it also demonstrates that even though he had everything stripped from him by God, he still looked to him for an answer. 

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Not only does it portray Pi’s undying devotion to his religious beliefs, but it also demonstrates that even though he had everything stripped from him by God, he still looked to him for an answer. 

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“But God's hat was always unraveling. God's pants were falling apart. God's cat was a constant danger. God's ark was a jail. God's wide acres were slowly killing me. God's ear didn't seem to be listening”(Martel, 111).

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Pi states that he had to adopt a new kind of hope, one for the future because if he were to only think realistically in this situation, his hope would diminish further. 

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Pi states that he had to adopt a new kind of hope, one for the future because if he were to only think realistically in this situation, his hope would diminish further. 

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“When the sun slipped below the horizon, it was not only the day that died and the poor zebra, but my family as well. With that second sunset, disbelief gave way to pain and grief. They were dead; I could no longer deny it”(Martel, 70).

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Pi's trust in his religion and value of hope lead him to believe that everything that had happened to him; good or bad, moral or immoral, was an act from God. 

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Pi's trust in his religion and value of hope lead him to believe that everything that had happened to him; good or bad, moral or immoral, was an act from God. 

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“Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed. A school of fish appeared around the net or a knot cried out to be knotted. Or I thought of my family, of how they were spared this terrible agony. The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving”(Martel, 209).

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Two men meet Pi in the hospital after he is rescued and begin to interview him, but find his story extremely hard to believe. Pi, exhausted yet still a confident man of faith explains to the interviewers that,“If you stumble about believably, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”(Martel, 163). Pi still preached; his hope and devotion to his religion became even more prominent although it was tested with his life and survival (two related sentences on both sides).   In the first sentence, Pi explains that if you worry and doubt if something is believable, true, authentic or not, do you know what you're really living for? He then goes on to mention that most everything humans experience in their day to day life is that of unbelievable, an improbable idea (appositive).  Lying in his desolate, uncomfortable hospital bed, Pi describes the idea of the suspension of disbelief to men of reason and reality (participle). His choice to believe the unbelievable, while it was thought unthinkable, proves his loyalty to his religion and ability, even after tragedy, to fall into the willing suspension of disbelief.