I will make it through this nightmare," cites that when Pi is on the verge of giving up his inner monologue fuels his determination to live. The general argument made by Mr. Yann Martel in his work "Life of Pi" is that determination keeps you alive. More specifically, Martel argues that determination is significant in everyone's life to overcome challenges and achieve one's goal.
Determination helps overcome one's fear. As for Pi, fear is "life's only true opponent" that shakes your foundation which needs to be faced. Living in a lifeboat for 227 days in the middle of the ocean with a vicious Bengal tiger, one can learn to deal with fear in determination to survive. At the moment when Pi acknowledges his thirst he desperately looked for supplies in Richard Parker's den, "Thirst pushed me." Realizing that in order for him to survive he needs to live with Richard Parker in the boat. Pi took practical steps to deal with Richard Parker, "I had to tame him. It was at that moment that I realized this necessity." Pi established his dominance to Richard Parker Pi and uses a whistle to serve as his taming device to Richard Parker. Pi doesn't just overcome his fear of Richard Parker but he unexpectedly made Richard Parker his sole companion, he "who brought me peace, purpose, I dare I say even wholeness.".
Religious faith gives strength to an individual's determination to live. Pi was a very devout person who just loves God. Pi told his father that "I would like to be baptized and I would like a prayer rug" which means that Pi want to be a Hindu, Christian, and Muslim although he was confronted by the three wise men and his father mother that he should only practise one religion but he still do what he wants. Being stranded in the boat, Pi still maintains his religious beliefs, practised his rituals and says his prayers five times a day in morning, mid-morning, late afternoons, after sunset and at night by doing this it "brought him comfort, that is certain.