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Martel's Life of Pi is very much a "slice of life" novel, with a highly whimsical style. There is no great conflict between characters for the majority of the novel, as the plot culminates around Piscine, a very charming, mature, and curious young boy. Instead, conflict tends to be turned inward. One exception is Pi's clash with his classmates, who tease him for his strange name. "Piscine" solves the conflict by dubbing himself the math term "Pi", which quickly reverses his fellow classmates' thoughts about him. They come to respect him -- not because he reacted negatively, but because he turned something potentially negative into something positive; in fact, Pi's reaction was so positive that it caused others in his class to shorten their names. Pi's incredible way of solving problems and preventing conflict sets a precidence by which the novel plays itself out in later chapters, and his conflicts represent higher conflicts which plague the world we currently live in.

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