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Cowardice is a sign of weakness and is not tolerable in the wild. In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel. It tells the story of a young teenage boy stranded at sea with a man-eating beast- a tiger. He ran a zoo with his family and planned to go to America to continue the business when disaster struck. He struggles to keep his beliefs as he fights to keep himself alive. He has difficulty fishing for food to keep them both satisfied. However, Pi is a total coward and makes stupid decisions. He was being too easy and let his food get away from him several times. He lost his shoe in his first terrible attempt at fishing. "The whole shoe disappeared bit by bit... Until I was left with only the rubber sole and the shoelace." (P204P5) He lost one …show more content…

"A lifetime of peaceful vegetarianism stood between me and the willful beheading of a fish." (P207P22) It's just a fish, and furthermore, at the end of the day, humans are omnivorous critters, animals in our biology like everything else on Earth. He compares himself as a mammal to the life of a fish, and both mammals and fish are different types of animals, not of the same species any longer as they had been in the distant past. "I imagined what it would feel like if I were wrapped in a blanket and someone were trying to break my neck." (P208P24) It's just a fish- humans are no longer similar to fish, and there is no need to compare themselves to a fish. If history were to tell Pi of the methods his ancestors used to survive, he might as well have called them savages like the tiger …show more content…

He is not rational in his train of thought. "I was now as guilty as Cain... All sentient life is sacred." (P208P26) While fish are conscious, they cannot feel pain, even as they are sentient beings but cannot feel pain. It is not a fitting comparison in the least. And does he have to delude in the thought of it being God's gift to keep himself stable? "Now you have saved me by taking the form of a fish. Thank you, thank you!" (P209P31) In which way does saving the world compare to saving the life of an insignificant human? They are not things of the same weight, and he caught a fish after the lion brought them all up. What happened here was not a rescue mission by his God, merely luck that saved his

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What is courage? The dictionary defines it as, “the ability to do something that frightens one”. But the belief that someone is doing something to frighten another seems inaccurate. We’ve all grown up knowing courage as an intangible fire that only comes from within and it helps guide you when you’re feeling doubtful or scared. This type of true courage is displayed by Piggy from the novel, Lord of the Flies, Martin Luther King Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail and Tim O'Brien in the short story, On the Rainy River.

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The Destructive Consequences of Greed and Selfishness Greed is the intense and selfish desire for something, most commonly wealth, power, or love. In All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, a symbol that comes up is the Sea of Flames diamond. According to the original story, the holder of the diamond becomes obsessed with its so-called power of immortality and its extreme value and is willing to give up anything to possess it. It depicts how anyone can be corrupted by greed and the desire for immortality. Other than its supposed power the diamond also has a destructive potential since the holder of the diamond will have to give up everything they love for immortality.

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After this, Pi describes the killing of the cook/hyena surprisingly easy, this is the shadow self and survival instincts shining through as well. what does this say about pi? Has this changed him? Go into more depth, this seems a little rushed. Concluding

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When Pi’s life is put in serious danger, he has to adjust his wants and needs of many different aspects of his life. Pi was living what he called a perfect life. From spending most of his days with animals to practicing swimming, he learned to love everything about his life. However, things changed when a ship that his entire family on sank in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

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Pi, lost at sea where food and water are severely scarce, puts him down all the way to the bottom of the pyramid of physiological needs. * From the moment the ship sank, all that was on his mind was to find all sources to survive before worrying about anything else. His ethics of being vegetarian and Hindu were clearly disregarded through the savage butchering of all the animals he comes by, which he must do to survive. In the beginning, the first sign of this was when he lost all sense of fear and safety to go on the boat and find sources of water, as he was becoming dehydrated. “Now that the word had popped into my head I couldn’t think of anything else, as if the

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There is one moment in the story where all his developed instincts were challenged. He was met with a school of flying fish that would jump out of the water and into the lifeboat. He had wrapped one fish in a blanket and intended to kill it with a hatchet. He could not bring himself to kill this fish with a hatchet, but ultimately cannot go through with it. Pi ends

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Other examples of his slipping humanity would be the first time he killed a fish. As Pi addressed in the book, “to think that I 'm a strict vegetarian. . . and always shuddered when I snapped open a banana because it sounded to me like the breaking of an animal 's neck. I descended to a level of savagery I never imagined possible.” (249) He is aware of the changes that are occurring inside of him.

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Pi encounters a French castaway; the castaway foolishly enters Pi’s lifeboat and is eaten by Richard Parker. After Richard Parker kills the French castaway, Pi starts using the leftover flesh for his own uses, such as fishing: “I will confess that I caught one of his arms with the gaff and used his flesh as bait” (322). In his isolated state, he thinks of nothing but survival and how he will receive his next meal. Soon after, Pi even goes to the extremity of eating the flesh of the mangled dead castaway. This deed of cannibalism barely registers in his mind as he admits, “... I ate some of his flesh.

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This idea may be based off of the fact that he had to kill the fish in order to survive, and to keep Richard Parker (the tiger) alive as well. Following the time of killing the flying fish (which Pi uses as bait) he catches a dorado, and explains that the food he is catching is for Richard Parker. Pi states, “It was for Richard Parker and he would have dispatched it with expert ease” (Martel 89). Through a religious aspect, it can be seen that Pi did not necessarily change is values, but had to go against his morals because of the specific scenario of survival. This may be true; however, Pi directly mentions that he is changed from the time of killing the flying fish to taking the life away from a beautiful dorado.

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