What is a good claim that joins Life of Pi and Margaret Atwood's "True Stories"?

Life of Pi is 2001 critically acclaimed and commercially successful fictional adventure novel written by Canadian writer Yann Martel. It follows an Indian boy named Piscine Molitor Patil (Pi) who survives a horrible shipwreck and manages to stay alive, alone, stranded on the Pacific Ocean, for nearly eight months. He is stuck on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, with whom he forms an unbreakable bond and even friendship. The novel explores various themes like spirituality, friendships, human nature, and people's fiery will ability to adapt and do anything they can to survive. Most importantly, however, the book also explores the meaning of truth, and this is precisely how it connects to Margaret Atwood's poetry collection True Stories.
Published in 1981, the collection consists of several poems which explore themes like nature, people's connection to nature, war, violence, oppression, and the exploration of truth. More specifically, Atwood's title poem "True Stories" asks the questions "What is the truth and why do we need it?" and answers them similarly to how Martel answers them in his famous book.
Both the novel and the poem are filled with rich imagery, and one can even believe that Pi himself could become the speaker of Atwood's poem. Atwood writes,

Don't ask for the true story;why do you need it?It's not what I set out with,or what I carry.What I'm sailing with,a knife, blue fire,luck, a few good words that still workand the tide.

This connects to Pi's adventurous journey, as he too becomes convinced that the world and the natural phenomena around him are very different from and much more captivating than what he originally thought. Once people learn to appreciate the natural world and realize that their survival and endurance are completely dependent on it, that they are helpless before it, they will have a much deeper spiritual connection with reality and with their inner self. Atwood mentions the beach and the ocean as a metaphor for change; Pi's character and personality constantly change throughout the book, as he discovers his own identity and his purpose. Both the speaker and Pi are, basically, on a quest for truth, meaning, and self-discovery.