Breakfast of Champions, written by Kurt Vonnegut, is the story of "two thin, lonely old men on a planet that was rapidly dying" (Vonnegut, P . 17). One of these old men is Dwayne Hoover, a “fabulously wealthy” Pontiac dealer, and the other is Kilgore Trout, a “nobody” writer. This novel examines their lives leading up to their meeting in Midland City. Life of Pi is a story framed in a fictional voice by the author, Yann Martel, who describes how he came to hear the story of Piscine Molitor Patel. Metafiction is a narrative technique in which the work always includes an awareness within the fiction that it is a work of fiction. Metafiction generally establishes the narrator as a character in the novel. Breakfast of Champions and Life of Pi both have characters who have difficulty differentiating their perception of their situation and the real events that are happening. Metafiction generally uses a technique in which the narrator is allowed to do certain things while embodying the role of the narrator, for example, commenting on the story as it is going along and modifying it to fit the intended audience. Pi's first-person account of his days on the open sea is replaced, by Martel, with a fictional story for a more realistic story suited to mainstream audiences. “'Then tell me, since it makes no difference to you and you cannot prove the question in any way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?'… Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals'” (Martel, P.317). This introductory structure of Martel's narration of Pi's first-person account of the days spent on the open sea contradicts the end of the novel, when Pi reveals the most realistic......middle of the paper......ues such as narrative intrusion and . Using this approach, where the narrator comments on the story as it is told, gives all readers the knowledge within the novel that it is a work of fiction. This method also confuses the characters, leaving them disoriented about their consciousness, their reality, and the relevance of it all. While metafiction can sometimes be disconcerting to understand, the techniques authors use play into this confusion it poses to get readers to keep reading to finally understand what is really happening. I recommend this type of genre to everyone, as well as the two novels Breakfast of Champions and Life of Pi. Generally these books are not a difficult read in the sense of vocabulary, but rather in the way the books are put together, making them difficult to delve into but extremely interesting once the reader does...