Life of Pi/YMMV

"Mr. Okamoto:
 * Acceptable Religious Targets: Pi respects and admires his strictly atheistic teacher, and devoutly practices Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity. However, he heaps all of his scorn on agnostics -- something about a lack of faith and decision.
 * Complete Monster:.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: The Japanese Officers' responses to Pi in their Foreign Looking Font (assumed to be Japanese):

Mr. Chiba:

Mr. Okamoto:

Mr. Chiba:

Mr. Okamoto:

Mr. Chiba:"

"Ravi: So, Swami Jesus, will you be making the hajj this year?"
 * Ravi's reaction to Pi being an Interfaith Smoothie:

"Pi: Would you like a cookie for the road?"
 * The Great Lunch Exchange during the interview


 * Whaddaya know? Banannas do float!
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel: The way the hyena . Pi's tone of despair is also notable, as he witnesses this feeling powerless, in great, nightmare-inducing detail.
 * Not to mention how Richard Parker.
 * But the take the cake.
 * Being stuck on a lifeboat for the better part of a year with a Bengal tiger.
 * How about the story at the end that
 * You Fail Religious Studies Forever: Agnosticism is not about being unable to choose which "side" to be on. It's a lot more complicated than that.
 * The "moral" doesn't work if you take the situation in the book as a "The Lady Or The Tiger" situation, where the "right" answer depends entirely on what you decide to go with and there is no real "right" or "wrong" answer. Or your answer could be that despite the story "forcing the reader to realize how awful doubt is" and wanting them to pick a side, there really is no way to know which answer is the right one - which is like agnosticism. It's not about doubt or indecisiveness for some, it's deciding that there is no way for you to know which choice is true, and accepting that.