Essay On Yeastless Factuality

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To add on, the dichotomy between the “dry yeastless factuality” and the “better story” is highly contrasted and used in the novel. Both concepts are developed in part one; one to foreshadow the future, and help the reader comprehend how Pi’s accumulated experience as a youth impact his survival and his ‘true’ experience. In the entirety of Chapter 22, Pi explains the significant distinction between the essence of the novel- between facts and imagination. In part one, Pi says, “I can well imagine an atheist’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!”—and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying, “Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain,” and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story” (Martel 70). In the words of Martel, spoken by Pi, he talks about the experience of death from an agnostic’s and an atheist’s point of view. From the agnostic’s point of view, Pi believes that they are most likely ...

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