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Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

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Life of Pi The choices we make and the choices we encountering often are altering our humanity. Yann Martel, in Life of Pi writes about Pi Patel stuck in the middle of the ocean with a Bengal tiger. Pi learns to fight for himself and for the tiger Richard Parker. A person’s morals are most times being challenged when in the face of surviving. Martel shows how Pi’s morals come into conflict with his survival. In the book, Martel writes as Pi saying, “...the day that I noticed I ate like an animal...exactly the way Richard Parker ate.” Pi is saying that this isn’t the normal way that he eats and with his word choice, that he doesn’t like it. Also, Martel writes when Pi killed his first fish, “Tears flowing down my cheek…the flying fish was

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