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Through stages that both challenge and gratify Pi, Yann Martel uses the Hero’s Journey in Life of Pi to develop dynamic tones throughout the story.

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“I never felt better in my life. Why, feel my brow! My forehead was wet with fresh, clean, refreshing perspiration. Everything in me, right down to the pores of my skin, was expressing joy” (142).

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The survival manual serves as a source of hope for Pi in the Special World.

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The survival manual serves as a source of hope for Pi in the Special World.

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"Don’t let your morale flag. Be daunted, but not defeated. Remember: the spirit, above all else, counts. If you have the will to live, you will. Good luck!” (167).

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Pi's encounter with land serves as his "Resurrection" and gives a reverential tone.

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Pi's encounter with land serves as his "Resurrection" and gives a reverential tone.

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“I sang that tree’s glory, its solid, unhurried purity, its slow beauty. Oh, that I could be like it, rooted to the ground but with my every hand raised up to God in praise! I wept” (260).

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Pi cleanses himself from his struggles of the Journey.

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Pi cleanses himself from his struggles of the Journey.

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“I simply laughed and jumped into a pond…So, under the gaze of a thousand meerkats, I soaked, allowing fresh water to dissolve every salt crystal that had tainted me" (268).

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Pi's return to the Ordinary World carries a tone of sublimity. 

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Pi's return to the Ordinary World carries a tone of sublimity. 

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“This beach, so soft, firm and vast, was like the cheek of God, and somewhere two eyes were glittering with pleasure and a mouth was smiling at having me there” (285).

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As Pi's mother crosses the threshold between he Ordinary and Special World, her reluctance carries a somber tone.

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As Pi's mother crosses the threshold between he Ordinary and Special World, her reluctance carries a somber tone.

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"“Yes, they have tobacco in Canada-but do they have Gold Flake cigarettes? Do they have Arun ice cream? Are the bicycles Heroes? Are the televisions Onidas? Are the cars Ambassadors? Are the bookshops Higginbothams’?” (91).

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Pi's hunger forces him into a desperate state.

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Pi's hunger forces him into a desperate state.

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“It was too late to get away, too late even to blow my whistle. My time had come. But enough was enough. I had suffered so much. I was so hungry. There are only so many days you can go without eating. And so, in a moment of insanity brought on by hunger–because I was more set on eating than I was on staying alive–without any means of defence, naked in every sense of the term, I looked Richard Parker dead in the eyes” (222).

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Pi's encounter with death serves as the Ordeal of his journey.

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Pi's encounter with death serves as the Ordeal of his journey.

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“It’s no use. Today I die. I will die today. I die. This was my last entry" (240).

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A dejected tone accompanies Pi as he realizes that the island stifles its visitors of any hope for the future.

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A dejected tone accompanies Pi as he realizes that the island stifles its visitors of any hope for the future.

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“How many dreams of a happy life dashed? How much hope come to nothing? How much stored-up conversation that died unsaid? How much loneliness endured? How much hopelessness taken on? And after all that, what of it? What to show for it?” (282).

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Pi learns that the island is not only the place of his resurrection, but it will also be the place of his downfall.

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Pi learns that the island is not only the place of his resurrection, but it will also be the place of his downfall.

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"I looked around at the algae. Bitterness welled up in me. The radiant promise it offered during the day was replaced in my heart by all the treachery it delivered at night" (282).

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In Yann Martel's Life of Pi, Pi's encounter with the algae island is a large turning point in the novel as it is the first event to give him a sense of hope for the future when everything else seemed lost. This stage of the Hero's Journey is called the Resurrection: as Pi feasts on the island's food, water, and company, he is both physically and mentally revived. The tone of this section diverges from the typically dismal style of the rest of the book. However, when Pi finds the human tooth and learns of the island's carnivorous nature, the interpretation of the scene changes. The Resurrection is a stage where the hero is cleansed and purified; however, it is also where the hero has their closest encounter with death. If Pi were to stay on this island, any hope for his future would be stifled and he would die like the previous visitor of the island. As Pi realizes this, he begins to feel infuriated at the island rather than being grateful for it: "Bitterness welled up in me. The radiant promise it offered during the day was replaced in my heart by all the treachery it delivered at night" (282). The tone of the novel transforms quickly from being jovial to despondent and angry at the new revelation. Pi's contrasting feelings of bitterness after a pleasant day on the island further emphasize the fracture in his utopian world where he would've spent the rest of his life and the dramatic change in tone. Shown through Pi's Resurrection, Martel uses such stages in the Hero's Journey to develop a variety of dynamic tones throughout the novel.