Set Text: Yann Martel’s Life of Pi Rationale: Yann Martel’s Life of Pi will be presented in this empathic response task through the eyes of Piscine Molitor Patel, the protagonist of the story. The choice of using chapter 94, where Richard Parker left him on the Mexican coastline, was influenced by my interest in the irony in the internal conflict within Pi, brought about by Pi 's human his nature.. The scene begins with Richard Parker leaving Pi immediately after he got off the boat. This invokes an inexplicable feeling in Pi as he desires a proper goodbye to tie up any loose ends with Richard Parker. This causes him to feel wistful whenever reminiscing about the succinct goodbye. It is ironic as Pi desires to see Richard Parker again, despite it being an representation of Pi’s primitive survival instincts that kept him alive on the boat. It is also ironic as he desires to see Richard Parker again, for the very purpose of giving him a proper goodbye. By allowing readers to understand Pi’s emotional turbulence, they will therefore understand that at times, human nature can be contradictory. These emotions are presented through …show more content…
Remember the time you killed the Frenchman and we ate him? In the civilised world of man, we would be killed and skinned alive for it. Maybe it is best for me that I move forward and let go of the past, even if it is painful. It was for the best that we went our separate ways, you, forward into the woods, and I, back into the world of men. I am really thankful for the easy path that I have ahead of me, given to me by others of my kind. However, what hurts the most is the fact that before letting go completely, we never took a moment to say goodbye. I yearn for another chance to say goodbye, a proper farewell to end things off nicely, a less agonizing closure to our story together. Whether we get that chancae, we will never