Life of Pi (1st Prompt)

In Yann Matel's novel Life of Pi the main character, Pi, is quite delusional. Many would assume the loss of his entire family caused this, but he was actually delusional before his family died in a shipwreck. He was first delusional as a young child. Pi's delusion throughout the book helps show his fascination with telling stories and changing them to fit the desires of different people.
Pi was born into a Hindu family, but as he got older, he began his search for the new perfect religion. This was technically, his first delusional thought. There is no "perfect religion." They all have flaws and no one religion can solve absolutely everything. Pi went on his pursuit by talking to a priest and discovering more and more about Christianity. Unfortunately, this was not the answer to Pi's religional dilemma either. Pi's second delusional thought, however, was that he could combine several different religions to make his own "perfect religion". He put together the pieces of a few different religions that he liked, such as the love as in Christianity and the reverence involved with Hinduism. This foreshadows to Pi's later experience with making real events fit to the point he is attempting to get across when he tells of his adventures. It seems weird to think of someone as constantly being delusional, but this was the central focus of Life of Pi. Yann Matel used Pi's delusional thoughts to bring the entire book together. Pi's being delusional in the beginning of the book helped make his delusions at the end not seem as strange. Well if Pi didn't have all these delusions, then his story would of made less sense.