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Through Pi’s life threatening survival journey, Yann Martel portrays Pi’s character development by presenting his unreliability shown through his change of stories, which can help infer that he may have been lying throughout the entire novel.

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Reliable interviewers doubt Pi about his journey, which can help one comprehend that he may have been lying throughout the entire novel. 

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Reliable interviewers doubt Pi about his journey, which can help one comprehend that he may have been lying throughout the entire novel. 

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“Mr. Patel, we don’t believe your story” (368).

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Pi disregards every word he has spoken in this novel about his survival by creating another story, which displays his frequent unreliability.

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Pi disregards every word he has spoken in this novel about his survival by creating another story, which displays his frequent unreliability.

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“Here’s another story” (381).

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Because of his lies, Pi teases the interviewers' minds in order to make them question whether he endured certain events or not.

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Because of his lies, Pi teases the interviewers' minds in order to make them question whether he endured certain events or not.

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“So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can’t prove the question either way, which story do you prefer?” (398).

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Many of the stories told by Pi do not add up and are very unreliable. 

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Many of the stories told by Pi do not add up and are very unreliable. 

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"Carnivorous trees? A fish-eating algae that produces fresh water? Tree-dwelling aquatic rodents? These things don't exist" (370).

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Pi attempts to persuade others in order to trust one of his many highly questionable stories.  

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Pi attempts to persuade others in order to trust one of his many highly questionable stories.  

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“I know my survival is hard to believe...I can hardly believe it myself” (282).

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In order to make himself sound more credible, Pi often tries to rationalize his unreliable words. 

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In order to make himself sound more credible, Pi often tries to rationalize his unreliable words. 

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"I made an exceptional botanical discovery...there will be many who disbelieve the following episode” (322).

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Pi's stories don't add up and seem bizarre. 

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Pi's stories don't add up and seem bizarre. 

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"He thinks we're fools" (368).

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Pi makes a very bizarre statement that is extremely hard to believe, displaying his unreliability as a narrator. 

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Pi makes a very bizarre statement that is extremely hard to believe, displaying his unreliability as a narrator. 

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"The island was carnivorous" (355).

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Pi displays a simple unreliable moment of his where he is untruthful as to why his eyes were red. 

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Pi displays a simple unreliable moment of his where he is untruthful as to why his eyes were red. 

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“Is something wrong with your eyes?”

“No, nothing just a bit of dust” (104).

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Pi shows his unreliable nature through his change of stories, which alters the truth of the novel up to this point. 

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Pi shows his unreliable nature through his change of stories, which alters the truth of the novel up to this point. 

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"Is that better? Are there any parts you find hard to believe? Anything you'd like me to change?" (391).

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Pi had an unreliable nature due to his poor mental and physical state. 

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Pi had an unreliable nature due to his poor mental and physical state. 

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“Incredible…I concluded that it was not a dream or a delusion or a misplaced memory or a fancy or any other such falsity, but a solid thing witnessed while in a weakened, highly agitated state” (169).

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Pi's stories align together, which makes the stories seem more unreliable than before. 

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Pi's stories align together, which makes the stories seem more unreliable than before. 

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"So the Taiwanese sailor is the zebra, his mother is the orang-utan, the cook is...the hyena-which means he's the tiger!" (392).

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Although Pi was able to make a great connection to many through his unimaginable survival journey and story, he quickly broke the trust and connection he built along the course of the novel. This was done by a betrayal completed after it was learned that his whole expedition could have been false. Pi began to imply that there could have been a completely different story after the interviewers revealed that they did not quite believe him. He objects at first but then begins to state, "Here's another story" (381). Pi, providing an alternate story, reveals his true heart (participle). It can be inferred that because he was quick to lie about his horrific journey, he could have lied about many other stories he told throughout the novel. The interviewers, determined to extract a credible story, contributed to the exposure of Pi's unreliability (appositive). Pi had been dishonest about what truly happened on his passage; therefore, looking back at certain stories within the novel, it can be discovered that Pi had other minor unreliable stories (semicolon). There were many instances where Pi had been unreliable, but those moments had been brushed aside and forgotten. This likely would not have been discovered until Pi's non-credible nature towards the end of the novel.