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...rough his words. He writes with amazing description, he has a way of capturing the moment and exploits it to the fullest. He also has a way of taking fiction and bringing it to life. It’s as if he lived through his writing, as if it was never really fiction to begin with. But in all actuality, it is. Martel gives a realistic view to the story in “The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios”, “… In the balance of things I suppose it’s better to be losing a brother than a son. A child dying before a parent, the future before the past—can there be anything more debilitating? It is worse than death, it is the ultimate hopelessness: it is extinction.” It is true. And somehow, it is as if Martel speaks through his characters. Making them say things that he also feels, one can suppose many authors and writers do the same, whether they admit it or not. To be able for readers to enjoy all three books to the fullest, literary tools are used. Literary techniques spread between all three of his books are allusion, cliché, hyperbole, imagery, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, simile’s and symbols. Martel does not use these sparingly. In “Life of Pi”, Martel uses handfuls of similes, an example would be from the firs...