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Survival In Life Of Pi And The Seventh Man By Yann Martel

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To guarantee survival, you must be in the right state of mind no matter the situation even though it may be hard, and you may also have to make tough decisions along the way. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, and “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami, all three main characters had to make tough decisions to be able to save themselves. For example, In Life of Pi, Pi had to make the decision to stop trying to save his family and save himself, In Night, Elie had made the decision to evacuate camp with everyone else rather than staying in the infirmary. In “The Seventh Man '', the seventh man tried to call out to his best friend K. but he didn’t hear him, so he didn’t even realize he did it but he had started running away from the beach to save himself from the …show more content…

They were all determined to get out of the situation and save themselves that they were unable to save people they care about and that is why they have survivor's guilt. In Night, a jewish boy named Elie was sent to a concentration camp with his family, but was soon separated from his mother and 3 sisters. He was with his dad the whole time they were in the camp, towards the end, his father started to get really sick and Elie was doing his best to care for him. Other prisoners were telling him to just let his father die, take his rations of food, and put all of his energy on himself. But when Elie felt like just giving up, he was thinking about his dad, and that gave him the motivation to keep going. Elie never gave up and always tried to stay strong for his father because he knew his father would be doomed without him. In the text it states, “The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain in my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. To break rank, to let myself slide to the side of the road… My father’s presence was the only

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