Piscine Molitor Patel, or Pi, is the main character in the book Life of Pi (Yann Martel), which covers his 227 days at sea after he was shipwrecked on his way to Canada with his family. In the first couple days of his shipwrecked, he describes his interactions with the zebra, hyena, orangutan, and bengal tiger. Specifically with seeing the crippled zebra, Pi says, “I had no idea a living being could sustantain so much injury and go on living.” (128) He was describing the gore in which the zebra was attacked and the surprise that the animal was still moving. Though, this could also symbolize the trauma that Pi himself had been put through being thrown on this lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific for so long. It can really be used as a testament …show more content…
In 2016, my godmother had passed away due to a relapse in her cancer which took her very quickly. This “thing” that I now had to face was something I never expected to go through let alone make it out the same way I went in. I didn’t think I had the emotional capacity to take this on as well as continue on with my day to day life, which no doubt didn’t seem to stop. I expected, or more hoped, that one day I would wake up and the pain would cease to be and I could keep going like I knew she wanted me to. But alas, that hope was futile. The adaptation I went through was learning how to deal with this new pain, and how to manage it when a new wave hit. I did this by accepting the emotion and not running from it when I knew it was in my mind. Accepting the emotion was difficult because not only did I feel the need to support her children, I also felt I had to support my father as well as my brothers. I didn’t feel as though I could do this if I accepted my own pain. But eventually through things like therapy and the support of my friends and people who care about me, I was able to find the best way to accept what I was feeling. Similarly to how Pi had learned to deal with the fact that nobody was coming for him, and find a way to survive