For days he rationed food, water, and other supplies so the rudimentary necessities would last him longer. He took joy in perhaps every little detail in life, turtle blood, fish, rain, and even Richard Parker’s behavior. When coincidentally he met another blind man in the middle of the ocean, Pi was truly thrilled. Pi, of course asked that man to join him, but Richard Parker killed him. Pi was devastated but it gave him a renewed faith that anything could happen in the near future. It seems as if it was Pi’s faith that brought him to the algae island, which later would reveal itself to be carnivorous and dangerous. Pi knew, again that if he didn’t think for the good of his future, he might not survive. He even said, “ I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half- life of physical comfort and spiritual death...” (Martel 283) This shows that Pi would rather die trying to fight then life a lonely
For days he rationed food, water, and other supplies so the rudimentary necessities would last him longer. He took joy in perhaps every little detail in life, turtle blood, fish, rain, and even Richard Parker’s behavior. When coincidentally he met another blind man in the middle of the ocean, Pi was truly thrilled. Pi, of course asked that man to join him, but Richard Parker killed him. Pi was devastated but it gave him a renewed faith that anything could happen in the near future. It seems as if it was Pi’s faith that brought him to the algae island, which later would reveal itself to be carnivorous and dangerous. Pi knew, again that if he didn’t think for the good of his future, he might not survive. He even said, “ I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half- life of physical comfort and spiritual death...” (Martel 283) This shows that Pi would rather die trying to fight then life a lonely