One of life's many unanswered questions is life after the end of mortality. The only plausible way humans can find an answer is through religion. Since the forbidden fruit was plucked from the calamitous tree, millions of religions have fermented and been cast into the eternal vessel of humanity. This search for answers to the unknown and the unique struggle to find oneself in faith are lucidly reflected in Life of Pi. This inimitable and emotionally exhausting novel is set in the 1970s, when Gandhi's scarier side began to emerge and religious freedom was limited. Although our world has changed quite a bit since those drastic times, people in our world today still struggle with the stereotypical notions that are imprinted in all, if not most, of our world's devotions. In Life of Pi, a young boy with a mind like a magnet explores the meaning of life and, over the course of his sad and courageous journey, realizes that although different hands created the religions of our world, these hands were created by a single universal force. Yann Martel expresses his personal motif through symbolism, ideology and characterization so boldly; it was as if Agni claimed to be our mortal knowledge. Since the dawn of time, archaic humans have always fabricated some sort of "superior" being. The Egyptians had Isis, Osiris, Horus, and countless other deities. Jews say that Yahweh is the creator of everything, while Hindus say that deities such as Lakshimi, Brahman and Vishnu determine the well-being of our earth. Each ancient civilization had its own unique gods that formed unity in communities, something that pushed forward a set of laws for people and kept society running smoothly. Religion was everything to our ancestors, and they gave us so clearly...... middle of paper ......and of the norm, they realize that all religions are one, all religions are equal , all religions, while believing in and worshiping various Gods, all share a universal outcome and strength. Life of Pi not only tells the story of a young boy, but also supports a powerful theory that could easily change our world. If we, as individuals in the twenty-first century, realized that we are not that different, would Jews have been persecuted? Would the Baha'i people of Iran face unjust racism? If our world sat down and read Life of Pi, many religious persecutions would not have occurred. Our world would be a safe and uninhibited world; people would not be separated by beliefs, but united by religion. When Yann Martel set out to write the mystery of Life of Pi, he didn't just write the story of a little boy, he wrote a philosophy that has the potential to become the motto of our world..