Laura Ann and I agreed that throughout this gruesome and disastrous section of The Life of Pi, Pi demonstrates true endurance and determination. Pi is put to an extreme test of survival when the cargo ship he was traveling on, sinks. He is the only human survivor along with a few other animals. This unlikely bunch find their way onto a life raft and fight to survive. One of these animals is an orangutan named Orange Juice. Orange Juice plays a very important role in this ordeal for Pi. She is is closest thing to a human and this fact provides both comfort and grief for Pi. Pi compares her to a human saying, “The poor dear looked so humanly sick! It is a particularly funny thing to read human traits in animals, especially in apes and monkeys
