There are countless similarities and differences between Life of Pi and Shutter Island. Many that people like us would find disturbing or unethical. Life of Pi is a Canadian fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor known as "Pi" is an Indian boy with a story like no other. Shutter Island is a 2010 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese. Both of these stories are astonishing, stories like no other but it's up to you which you prefer better. Life of Pi and Shutter Island have similar themes like the twisting of reality, Alter egos, and Faith vs. doubt. The major similarity between the two stories is their significant ability to twist reality. Something that caught my attention in the book of Life of Pi was the intriguing plot twist at the end of the story. While reading the book we are given the impression that Pi is on this journey of survival with a set of different kinds of exotic animals. As the story progresses you get more details on the animals' traits which helps create a specific image of "Pi's" excursion, so it is a shock when you learn that the whole story you came to know gets turned inside out and you discover a whole new side of what some people can do when trying to survive. Piscine uses his fictional story because, like all humans, he has a desire to keep a peaceful story in his mind instead of the reality. Unlike Andrew Laeddis, Pi is able to distinguish between the truth and reality. Piscine is well aware of the cannibalistic acts that he commits on the life raft, but he chooses to believe in the story with the animals because it is a conscience-pleasing story. This is seen when Piscine finishes telling his fictional animal story to the Japanese investigators. Pi retells the shipwreck, his survival, and his 227 days at sea without the animals due to the investigators not believing the fictional story. Pi resorts to cannibalism which is something very difficult to overcome. After retelling the story to the Japanese investigators Pi asks "So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?"(Yann Martel, 352) the Japanese investigators responded "The story with the animals"(Martel,353). Piscine is pleased to hear that they chose the story with the animals-the conscience-pleasing story. Through his awareness, Piscine is able to maintain sanity and psychologically live by what is real and what is not, though he uses his fictional story as a guide to mental peace. In this case since there is no definite proof, Pi says how the best fiction is the best reality. Thus, the fact that the investigators chose the fictional story proves how Pi twists the truth to show to us humans that sometimes it's safer to keep the truth hidden. In Shutter Island, Teddy Daniels known as Andrew Laeddis creates a fictional life after being in denial of a traumatic event taken place in his past. Andrew tells himself the fictional story that he created in his mind over and over, eventually leading to him not being able to distinguish between the fictional story and reality. Guilt and pain is what caused Andrew to invent a fictional life, one which he is still a war hero and a federal Marshal named Teddy Daniels. He invents a theory on Shutter Island and a hunt for a missing patient who doesn't exist to keep him occupied with a mystery that he cannot solve because he is the 67th patient. In reality his n