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Future is a mystery, is like a baby that is still in her/his mother belly, you know is there but you don't know how he/she looks like.
Motorcycle Diaries and Life of Pi teach us that there is a world out there that we don’t know about and sometimes we have to break the rules of life, family and even religion to survive and make things happen.
Someone once said "the worst things in life come for free to us". "You gotta fight for every breath and tell death to go to hell"( Guevara 35). Che and Pi went through a journey, a journey that was the beginning of great things as well bad things. But yet, they never gave up. During their journey both changed their perspective to see the world and the way to think. Che learned that not everyone can have everything they want like he did, some people needed to leave their education to work to support their family, something that Che didn't do on his teenage age. Also that sometimes people leave family, country and friend's behind to have a better future for them and family like Pi's parents did. In the case of Pi's family, they were moving looking for happiness and better future for Pi and his brother but they didn't know their future would end up as a tragedy. But they weren't alone during their journey, Che had his friend Alberto and Pi had Richard Parker, although , they were separate at the end.
Losing someone that has been with you for so long like Richard Parker with Pi and Alberto with Che its really sad. "I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart. " (Martel 63) Seeing Richard Parker leaving broke Pi's heart because even if it was just an

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