Breakfast of Champions, written by Kurt Vonnegut, is the story of "two lonely, skinny old men on a rapidly dying planet" (Vonnegut, P 17). One of these old men is Dwayne Hoover, a "fabulously well-off" Pontiac dealer, and the other is Kilgore Trout, a "nobody" writer. This novel looks at their lives until they met in Midland City. The Life of Pi is a story framed by a fictional entry by 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 leads the narrator to establish himself as a character in the novel. Both Breakfast of Champions and Life of Pi have characters who struggle to differentiate their perception of their situation from the actual events taking place. Metafiction typically uses a technique where the storyteller is allowed to do certain things while embodying the narrator's role, for example, commenting on the story as it unfolds and changing it to suit the intended audience. Pi's first-person account of days spent on the high seas is replaced, by Martel, with a fictional story in place for a more realistic story suited to the primary audience. “So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the issue anyway, 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 frame of Martel's narration of Pi's first-person account of days spent on the high seas contradicts the end of the novel, when Pi reveals the paper's more realistic milieu......such as intrusion narrative and . By using this approach, where the narrator comments on the story as it is told, the novel realizes that it is a work of fiction for all readers. This method also confuses the characters, leaving them disoriented as to their awareness of their reality and the actuality of it all. If metafiction can sometimes be confusing to understand, the techniques used by the authors play on this confusion it causes to encourage readers to continue reading in order 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 difficult to read in the sense of vocabulary, but rather in the way the books are put together , which makes them difficult to approach but extremely interesting once the reader understands it..