Fictional Survivors Survival is key to everything and every living thing finds ways to survive in their environment. No matter what their environment may be. Even fictional characters from stories and novels like the “Life of Pi” and “The Story of Keesh”, demonstrate signs of survival in their environment. “The Story of Keesh” and “Life of Pi” both characters use their intelligence to think of ways to survive in extreme environments. In “The Story of Keesh”, Keesh survives off his environment and uses the resources he finds in his environment to survive. When Keesh first goes out to hunting for the first time he takes, “...his bow, with a goodly supply of bone-barbed arrows, and that across his shoulder was his father’s big hunting spear”(London
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When Pi starts to feel dehydrated, he makes the choice of risking his life by opening the tarpaulin and finding resources or getting attacked by Richard Parker. In the story it states, “I looked down between my legs. I thought I would faint for joy. The open locker glistened with shiny new things…. Drinking water said the vintage label in black letters”( Martel/Pi 86). Pi’s dangerous choice to open the tarpaulin allowed him to find fresh water. His risky decision has rewarded him gratefully. Afterwards Pi also finds food and decides to calculate how long the food would last him. After he calculates and finds out that, ….I had food rations to last me- 31*3 -93 days!… .So I had water rations to last me 124 days”(Martel/Pi 91). Pi uses his mathematical skills to figure out how long his food and water supply would last him if he rations them out. Soon he learns that his food will last him for quite a while. He thinks that the best choice would be to ration out his food. Later Pi thinks about finding a way to tame Richard Parker so that he wouldn’t eat him. In the text it states, “I had to tame him. It was at that moment that I realized this necessity. It was not a question of him or me, but him and me”(Martel/Pi 92). For Pi to not be alone at sea and go insane, he had to find a way to tame Richard Parker. Pi was taking a huge risk with this plan of his. Either he finds a way to tame Richard Parker so he doesn’t go insane by being alone or be eaten by RIchard
When Pi starts to feel dehydrated, he makes the choice of risking his life by opening the tarpaulin and finding resources or getting attacked by Richard Parker. In the story it states, “I looked down between my legs. I thought I would faint for joy. The open locker glistened with shiny new things…. Drinking water said the vintage label in black letters”( Martel/Pi 86). Pi’s dangerous choice to open the tarpaulin allowed him to find fresh water. His risky decision has rewarded him gratefully. Afterwards Pi also finds food and decides to calculate how long the food would last him. After he calculates and finds out that, ….I had food rations to last me- 31*3 -93 days!… .So I had water rations to last me 124 days”(Martel/Pi 91). Pi uses his mathematical skills to figure out how long his food and water supply would last him if he rations them out. Soon he learns that his food will last him for quite a while. He thinks that the best choice would be to ration out his food. Later Pi thinks about finding a way to tame Richard Parker so that he wouldn’t eat him. In the text it states, “I had to tame him. It was at that moment that I realized this necessity. It was not a question of him or me, but him and me”(Martel/Pi 92). For Pi to not be alone at sea and go insane, he had to find a way to tame Richard Parker. Pi was taking a huge risk with this plan of his. Either he finds a way to tame Richard Parker so he doesn’t go insane by being alone or be eaten by RIchard