Life Of Pi Landscape Analysis

Landscape is more than the visible features of an area; it is what a person is surrounded by. Landscape is everything that is going on or everything that exists around someone. Therefore, landscape is a large factor in how a person will grow. In Life of Pi, Pi Patel is prepared and formed, to survive the tasking journey he did, by being raised in a zoo. With this knowledge, he was able to build a relationship with animals and co-exist without conflict. Even when Pi was placed in a foreign setting, with little to survive off of, he managed to adapt to the landscape and eventually compare human life to wildlife. In Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, the people of Kanehsatake had a very close relationship with the land, as they were willing

Pi utilized all that was at hand and managed to relate his experience on the lifeboat to his life back home; but he had to change many things about himself in order to survive. Pi went from being a lifelong devoted vegetarian to having his diet limited to strictly meat, due to the lack of vegetation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Pi adapted to eating raw meat and not wasting a single part of an animal that he kills. Eventually, he was able to mercilessly kill an animal with his bare hands, without thinking twice. “A person can get used to anything, even killing.” (205, Martel). Killing is the most inhumane thing a person can do, but as Pi says, a person can get used to anything; as he was forced to adapt to this state of being in order to survive. Anxiety was a battle Pi was forced to face more than a few times; his sleeping pattern became sporadic due to being in a constant state of panic and was only ever able to sleep an hour at a time. A lot in his life was required to adjust to the conditions Pi was living in, but he also noticed small similarities between his life and what he witnesses on the lifeboat. “With just one glance I discovered that the sea is a city. Just below me, all around, unsuspected by me, were highways, boulevards, streets and roundabouts bustling with submarine traffic. In water that was dense, glassy, flecked by millions of lit-up specks of plankton, fish kike trucks and buses and cars and bicycles and pedestrians were madly racing about, no doubt honking and hollering at each other.” (194, Martel). Pi relates the unmarked highways of the ocean to the man-made highways across all land. This thought could have been comforting for Pi, as it was indeed a similarity between ocean-life and human-life. This relation could induce a sense of