Pi's Survival

Pi’s prior experience is disproven by surviving his two-hundred and twenty-seven days of companionship with the Bengal tiger in the Human Story. After all, one’s sense of reality can differ from person to person due to their varying experiences and their responses to it. Moreover, the values that the characters had throughout their life and the knowledge they earned along with it allowed the writer, Martel to, once again, demonstrate through symbols that one’s outlook of their reality would be dependent on these factors- blood as a symbol for life and survival of Pi. In the Human story, Pi’s religious value ceases him from killing any living being however when faced with the adversities of survival, his values are twisted. He goes on to say …show more content…
In these instances, the character Pi has clear ethical values since he was of a young age, he knows very well that killing is an unethical action even when alone. Furthermore, Pi grieves the unlikely death of his family. He remembers them and declares, “To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing-I’m sorry, I would rather not go on” (Martel 127). One of the Ten Commandments of the Christian faith orders followers to honor their father and mother which Pi instills in his values. Lastly, towards the end of the novel when the sailor was killed by Pi, another life is put to end. Blood was mentioned a lot of times throughout the novel to symbolize the hardship experienced by the characters. The values of the characters in Martel’s novel guide them all throughout their difficult experiences opting to do their ethical behavior. Ultimately, an individual’s aspects of what their reality truly is compared to others are affected by their values obtained throughout their