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I think that Pi's relationship with God really helped him to keep going  with his journey to survival because he had hope of surviving. I think that if you truly believe in something you are capable of succeeding.

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I think Pi made up the story to help him deal with the loss of his family. I also think this story is a way to help him cope through all of the trauma he went through.

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I believe in both of the stories because they both make sense. The animal story explains the symbolism between the people that are on the lifeboat. And the human story explains who the animals symbolize. I think that Pi chooses to believe in the animal story because it's how he copes with all of the trauma he has went through.

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Pi has kept faith throughout his entire journey and has proven that the impossible is possible. The most random, crazy combinations could be possible if you have faith and give it a chance.

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I think Pi made up the story to help deal with the loss of his family and create a less cruel scenario to the story. Its easier to replace humans with animals because you can't blame the animals for following their basic instincts.

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Pi had all odds against him yet he continued to keep his faith in God. He held hope in times that seemed impossible. I think something to look at his how easy it was to give up on absolutely everything yet Pi continued to always push through and ignore any doubts. It's about keeping this energy not just to God but anything you're passionate about.

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Pi s trying to get at the idea that anything can happen no matter the odds of such a ridiculous situation happening. Even if something seems close to impossible, don't give up on the thought because even when you think it's impossible, you might prove yourself wrong.

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After reading the book, I think that Pi having a relationship with God helped him survive. He was able to have faith in God and keep going.

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I believe the story with the humans because I think that because Pi was so close to animals, that his mind wanted to believe that there were animals killing each other and not humans. I also think it would be more believable in the humans eye to say that it was animals killing each other and not humans.

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Pi story just seems super unrealistic to someone who has been living normally, on land. Mr. Okamoto hasn't been in the ocean for 227 days. So it's hard for him to believe that all those things can come together can make him feel as if it is unreal.

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I definitely think that a 100% correct story can be just as meaningful and a "made up" story or a story with modified details. Whenever someone tells a story, they will try to make it seem more believable or more adventurous or whatever they want the story to feel like. This does take away from the honesty, but not the meaning of the story. 

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I definitely think that a 100% correct story can be just as meaningful and a "made up" story or a story with modified details. Whenever someone tells a story, they will try to make it seem more believable or more adventurous or whatever they want the story to feel like. This does take away from the honesty, but not the meaning of the story. 

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The point that Pi makes is really interesting and I think part of his opinion about this has to do with his religion. He has faith in the miracles of life, and someone who is not as open minded as he is might have a hard time believing something that isn't right in front of them. Kind of like love, or anger, or joy: you can't really see it, you can't hold it or touch it, but it is very much real and exists.

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Pi makes up the story so when he thinks about this time in his life he doesn't have to think of his mom dying in front of him, or the anger he felt when he killed the cook.

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Pi makes up the story so when he thinks about this time in his life he doesn't have to think of his mom dying in front of him, or the anger he felt when he killed the cook.

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I think that this is a really interesting point. 'Truth' is individual and what is truth to you might not be real to somone else. It is hard to say if everything Pi recals actually happened becuase of his state of mind and the way his brain was functioning for a majority of the time at sea. But I think if that is what Pi recals then he should be to think that because he was the one who was there.

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I think that this story is really powerful because of the relationship Pi has with God. Pi's steady trust in God gave him hope and kept him going, which really helped Pi survive.

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Pi could had arrived somewhere. By that time, he's been on the boat for so long and his mind is mixing up. So he could have been on a different island that had some sorta of animals. Maybe something related to the meerkats.

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I believe that the story without the animals is the true one, but I think the one with the animals is easier for Pi to think about because it doesn't involve all of these graphic images of his mom being killed or of him killing the cook.

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Pi makes up the story with animals as a trauma response. He doesn't want to believe his mother died on the boat, so he replaces her with an orangutan. It allows him to cope with the experience better.

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I'm a mix. Obviously there was stress and trauma but some things would make sense in Pi's story.

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After reading the story it might not be just about gods or God but maybe solely about belief in general.

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Believing the animal story would make more sense since the entire book was about it but the human story makes more sense now. Pi uses the animals to symbolize different people who are on the ship. I think he did this because he was also delusional and had no train of thought in the middle of an ocean of 227 days. And also maybe using it as a coping thing for himself.

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I think he ended up somewhere, just with not as much intensity. Maybe to a point there was meerkats and all that but not like a full civilization. And maybe the sand was just hot at night and it wasn't carnivorous, and maybe he imagined the teeth. Who knows.

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Although Pi's original story was wrong, it's events were still accurate. The animals may not have been real, but the story is, which leads me to believe that he might've actually been on an island similar to the meerkat island.

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I think what Pi is trying to get at is that just because the odds are near impossible, or because it has never happen before, doesn't mean it won't ever happen, in a sense, this is part of believing, seeing something that can happen despite the odds.

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I want to believe the animal one because the human one felt forced even if more likely and it misses the meerkat island.

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I believe the story with the humans. However the story with the animals is a lot more interesting and also shows how Pi coped with the trauma of dealing with the death of his family. Especially the part where his mother died, it looks like he blocked that from his memory until he was confronted with the truth.

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I think Pi makes up the story with animals because not only does it show a different side on how Pi sees life, but it also shows that building a relationship with animals can help you along the way not only because his fear went away from the bigger more intimidating animals, but because the relationships he built helped him believe in himself.

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After reading this novel the constant references to Pi's God's, I think helped him survive this crazy adventure and I think that it does make people believe in religions and Gods because it shows the power and the moral blessings that pi receives throughout experiencing the extremely hard living conditions.

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I think this story is meant to make you question do I want to believe in god or do I not. In chapter 99 Pi tells the two stories and then finally asks the men he has told them to which one they prefer more. They say the story with the animals and Pi says, "Thank you. And so it goes with God."  It is a choice to believe in god and in this story the choice to believe in god is a choice to see illusion to help cope with the terrible things that actually went on.

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I believe Pi arrived somewhere maybe not the island he described but I doubt he lied.

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I think a "made up" story can be very well just as meaningful as a real story. As long as you get the main point of the story across while adding in small details and things such as that, I think the story can have just as big as an impact as before. Take Pi's story for example the point he is trying to get across is there in both stories, one is just "modified" to help the guards understand what he thinks happened d on the boat.

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As for why Pi made this story with animals, it might serve as a way to cope with the trauma he experienced on the raft, and why he put so many connections to faith and animals in his story, it probably has to do with his background, his father owning a zoo, and Pi experimenting with a lot of religions . I also think Pi may have made it as a purpose for a better story, I think in his perspective, to make his story more valuable to the reader, he must have had to organize his story in a way so its memorable, it tells a lesson, and even at the end of the book, we see the investigators chose to believe in the story with the animals, maybe they just preferred it much more for some reason.

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Throughout Pi's whole experience in sea, he has seen and done things he have never imagined himself to do and it just sets a mindset that anythings possible. He tries to give Mr. Okamoto an idea on what its like but he refuses to believe

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I believe the story with the humans. Pi was going through an incredibly intense period of stress and trauma , and to cope with it he viewed the people on the boat as animals in his head because he had a deeper connection with them. The animals were made up metaphors for the people on the boat as Pi's way to cope with the trauma.

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I choose to believe the story surrounding the humans, it just seems much more sensible and something likely to happen if it did in real life. Sure, I think the other story surrounding animals is also likely to happen, but a carnivorous island is just to fictional to believe.

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Pi is trying to get at the idea

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Having one story make you believe in God can be a tough sell to some people. In Pi's mind, what he went through and survived shows God in many ways to him but other people have different opinions. His story shows if you have faith and trust in God, you will always survive and make it out.

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When people tell a story, not all the facts will be told and false facts will be told to make it seem more real and make people believe it better. A made up story can still be as meaningful as a real story because if you don't change to much about the story, the point stills get across so it can be as meaningful.

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I choose to believe the human story because I think that the animal story was just people but since Pi was more close to animals than humans, he wanted to believe that they were humans. That is why he would talk to Richard Parker like a human and he could relate more to animals. But that wasn't his reality. All of the animals were symbols for different people and he imagined that they were animals because he has a deeper connection with them than humans.

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Each person has different beliefs. For Pi, God is what helped him survive and he put a lot of his faith into God. This just shows that if you have enough belief in something, and you have hope you can put your faith into anyone, not just God.

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Pi has more of a connection with animals. So, even if the human story is true, he related the humans to animals in his mind because he can relate to them more. It is like he has more trust in animals or something. I think that Pi thinks every life form is important and that is what brought him to believe that animals were with him.

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I think that a made up story is as meaningful as a real one as long as you get your main point across. Sometimes we add in extra details to make the story more interesting. A story is never told exactly how it happened. You could be helping someone by changing some of the details to not get them in trouble.

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I thought of it as Pi trying to cope or justify what really happened (assuming the human story was true). I wouldn't question one "wild" animal eating another, even as I was reading the part when the hyena ate the zebra it didn't come to me as a bad thing for an animal like the hyena to do; spiders even eat each other but I've never found it wrong. What I did find wrong was the Cook eating another human. Even Pi ate human flesh and he was justifying himself. I think the whole story with animals is Pi's way of lightening what happened on the boat.

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Pi argued that those bones belonged to meerkats but the interviewers argued otherwise. There isn't enough evidence that the bones belonged to a meerkat just like there isn't enough to prove that they weren't. I think this was meant to show that you could believe in something without evidence.

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For Pi, believing in god got him through a horrific accident. I personally think it was a miracle he got rescued and is safe but would not necessarily atone that accomplishment to god. However maybe the idea of god and holding onto religion helped Pi feel a little safer and gave him hope in those dark times.

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I think it serves a strong psychological purpose for Pi. He always had a strong relationship with animals, finding them interesting and spending much time with them. So, instead of having to think pf these horrible things happening to people like his mother, a cook, ect. it was easier to understand for him if these where all animals acting on natural instinct.

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The human story is the story I believe, not only because it is more probable, but also because it was apparent Pi needed a way to deal with what was happening. He couldn't fathom what was truly going on so he had another reality playing out in his head.

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The story makes you believe in god because Pi surviving this experience wasn't likely and god must have stepped in to preserve him.

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If the human story is true than the only reason I can think that he made up the animal story was to help him with the cruel reality.

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I thinks that everybody has different religions. But, it is a very bold statement to say that one story can make you believe in god.

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The story was definitely enhanced by the animals being added tot he book. But, I think the story was like that to show that Pi really was messed up in the head.

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Pi was trying to prove that something was real to people who have never seen the things before. He is trying to tell Mr. Okamoto that the things are real but he doesn't know that because he doesn't get out in the world and has a limited mindset where he only believes what he sees.

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I believe in the human story for a couple reasons. First, Pi was going crazy on the boat seeing things that weren't there. Secondly, Pi talked to Richard Parker like he was a real person.

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I think the story with the animals would make you believe in god, if you believe something as "unrealistic" as the story with animals why wouldn't you believe in something like God. The Japanese interviewers agreed that the story with the animals was better even if the story without animals was more realistic, the way I think of God is that life is better if He does exist, even if science is more believable I would still choose to believe in Him because of this.