Fish Bowl Responses

Life of Pie Fish Bowl Question Responses
4. Besides his family and possessions, Pi lost, but also gained many things from his time stranded at sea. After being at sea for so long and experiencing the thigs he did, Pi lost his mental stability. In the beginning of the book, Pi has his head on straight and is focusing on surviving and staying alive. However, as time goes on, Pi begins to lose hope and become more and more insane. When Pi encounters a Frenchman and talks to him, he believes he is talking to Richard Parker and has completely lost his mind. This is shown when he says “I laughed. I knew it. I wasn’t hearing voices. I hadn’t gone mad. It was Richard Parker who was speaking to me! The carnivorous rascal” (Martel 246). Pi really has
Overall, I feel like the story does have a happy ending. I feel like it was weird however, to include what could have been the final page or two of the book, into the middle of it. It made the story interesting. I think that is the happy ending of the story, and the author then goes on to tell the middle parts of the book. The main purpose of the author doing this was to intrigue the reader and to have them know that Pi would survive whatever happens to him next. Even though Pi has gone through this terrible experience, he is able to still find happiness in life and enjoy it. For example, when Martel describes how “[a]t each number [Pi] softly presses the tip of her nose with his index finger. She finds this terribly funny. She giggles and buries her face in the crook of his neck” (Martel 93). By including this in the story, the author is showing how much Pi cares about his daughter and loves her. This also shows how Pi has been able to make a full recovery, both mentally and physically, and settle back into the real word. I also found this story to have a happy ending in the final line of the story. The reporter that interviewed Pi made a news report about it and in the last line said “[v]ery few castaways can claimed to survive so long as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger” (Martel 319). The reporters had questioned the possibility of animals being on the lifeboat with Pi, so he gave them two stories and told them to choose “the better story”
The human beings in our world reflect the animals in many ways. We have the section of people who represent the zebra. They are weak and helpless. They are unable to take care of themselves and rely on others to do it for them. The zebra also represents all the sick and injured people in our lives. The people who are living with a terminal disease, just waiting to die. The zebra had a broken leg with “the bone protruding through skin, and there was bleeding” (Martel 109), and there was no way that he was going to survive, so it had to wait out a painful death. The orangutan from the book represents the people who act one way, but as soon as a supervisor or someone holding a higher position of authority walks in, they act a different way. They act in a way that will please that person. This relates to both the hyena and the orangutan because they had to act a certain way in front of Richard Parker because they knew that he could kill them whenever he wants. RP represents that higher authority that you need to impress. The hyena in the book represents the greedy people in life, the people who will do what’s best for them rather than the group. The hyena is the first to take action by eating the zebra, and eventually the orangutan. It is a selfish animal and doesn’t care about what it is doing and the harm it is causing, all it thinks about is how now that he has eaten the animals who were weak, he is not hungry anymore and that is good. This represents the people who are