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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
Pi narrates these words in chapter
At this point Pi turns to God and, Martel implies, invents
the story that we have just read. His mind is desperate to escape
the physical reality of continued existence on the lifeboat, and
so it soars into the realm of fiction. At his lowest point, Pi reaches
for the only remaining sources of salvation available to him: faith
and imagination. Through the plot’s remaining action, Martel emphasizes
that such a strategy for self-preservation can actually be astonishingly
effective. Immediately after this moment in the text, Pi lands on
a beach in Mexico. Like a deus ex machina
