How Is Life Of Pi A Dynamic Character

Yann Martel wrote a fascinating story about the journey of an Indian boy, Piscine Molitor Patel, simply titled Life of Pi. The book revolves around Pi who is forced by his parents to move from India to Canada, with his family and the animals they owned at their zoo. Disaster struck as the family was traveling to Canada when the Japanese cargo ship they were on crashed and sunk. Pi escaped and made it to a lifeboat with some of the animals. The book follows Pi’s journey after the crash and shows how he managed to survive. Life of Pi was written and published in 2001; so far Yann and the book have won the Man Booker Prize. The book captures the reader’s eye with the extraordinary tale that Martel writes, about this Indian boy who gets stranded

Without Pi, there would be no story to write about, the book would lose the effect of connecting with people and putting them in Pi’s position. In Life or Pi, Pi is seen as a dynamic character. At the beginning of the story, he is an innocent young boy that hasn’t experienced any awful events in his life; but once the crash occurs and he is on his own, and he was forced to change to adapt to his life at sea. Pi says to himself during his voyage, “ I descended to a level of savagery I never imagined possible”(Martel, 235 digital copy). This goes to show that Pi had to change to fit his environment, by drifting away from his vegetarian values, and eating what was necessary for survival. What made him a dynamic was the fact that Pi realized that he could not follow his religious and dietary values strictly to survive, so he changed. The character that appealed to me the most was Pi. He was determined never to give up on the journey no matter how hard of times he was facing. He always tried to take care of Richard Parker before he even thought of taking care of himself. Pi had his thoughts that he should give up, but his resilience showed and he continued