Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, is a story about a boy, Pi, who gets stuck on a life boat with a tiger. As Pi does his best to survive and keep the tiger, Richard Parker, alive, he experiences a change in opinion. At the beginning of their time on the life boat, Pi is very against killing any fish, even though his life may depend on it. Pi says “a lifetime of peaceful vegetarianism stood between me and the willful beheading of a fish” (Martel 87). Although Pi is aware that this fish may be his only source of food, he has always done his best to avoid the killing of animals and he wants to keep it that way. However, Pi guiltily kills the fish, aware of the fact that he must in order to survive. Later in the story, Pi feels less guilty killing a