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Life of pi is considered a work of magical realism since its only one person point of view.  In the novel pi was only one who went to the tragedy. This shows up I was the only one that survived when the ship sank.
Throughout the novel, Pi did not tell his story in linear order. He had a couple flashbacks of his childhood when he was with his family and religion. This shows that was all these flashbacks got the reader confused with the past and the present.
  Magical realism is serious but with fantasy things in it. For example, the seriousness can be everything Pi went through and the fantasy can be being on the boat with a wild animal amd going to a cannibal island.