Inhumane In Life Of Pi

A good portion of people have lived in an environment in which imminent death has not been a threat for a long enough period of time to allow themselves to repress the brutality of their ancestors, but have humans retained instinct well beyond their years of modernization? Life of Pi by Yann Martel, has brought this topic to the public eye with a novel that initially presents itself as an endearing (albeit extreme) story of the survival of Pi, a 16 year old boy, and Richard Parker, a Bengal tiger, who become the sole survivors of a 1977 shipwreck in the Pacific. Although this book has entranced readers with improbable events and an odds-beating conclusion, Martel has crafted a terrifying similarity between the actions of humans and wild animals when faced with danger.
When the once-gentle main character is confronted with predicaments in the later book, he resorted to cannibalism despite being a vegetarian prior. However, such inhumane behaviors should be impossible for a kid to perform in the first place, and yet the human mind has conditioned itself to become a near-perfect tool when utter desperation is reached. Yann Martel’s Life of Pi pushes the limits of endurance, causing character development within the story due to conflict and a dreary mood being present. While you root for your protagonist, his struggle begins to reveal a much more sinister enemy than isolation: that each human possesses a savagery always threatening to strike when a person feels threatened, no matter what masks of faith or hope it hides