Next, Pi finds himself losing his innocence which had created tension and loss of his true character. Pi loses his innocence when he kills the fish, “I heard a cracking sound and I no longer felt any life fighting in my hands…The flying fish was dead.” (Martel 203). Pi, being a vegetarian up to this point in his life, is displaying his loss of innocence due to the fact that he no longer follows his vegetarian beliefs. When an individual changes his or her beliefs whether it is eating meat if you are a vegetarian or acting a certain way will cause effects on your inner self which will contribute to the loss of self-innocence. Further into the novel Pi takes his loss of innocence to further extremes when he kills the cook, “The cook killed my
