The passage chosen to convey the meaning in the Life of Pi shows that whether the reader believes the animal story or the story with humans the message still applies to both. This passage on page forty-one explains that there is a madness that stirs in everybody that helps people adapt and survive. The word madness implicates that it can have negative effect as well as positive and can drive people to do what they might not normally do, such as in the case of Pi. The novel has two very conflicting possible plots, either of which could be true and believable, but the underlining message is still survival. Pi would still have to kill the cook or the hyena in order to survive with his new found madness. This madness that allows humans to survive, “ moves… in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways” appears when Pi is marooned on the lifeboat, and it festers (Martel 41). Madness caused Pi to kill his first fish, train a tiger, or kill the cook, all the while slowly growing within him.The novel contains an animal and unrealistic story versus the plausible and realistic story where the reader decides which plot line to believe, but there is no deciding about adaptation when it comes to survival.
The passage chosen to convey the meaning in the Life of Pi shows that whether the reader believes the animal story or the story with humans the message still applies to both. This passage on page forty-one explains that there is a madness that stirs in everybody that helps people adapt and survive. The word madness implicates that it can have negative effect as well as positive and can drive people to do what they might not normally do, such as in the case of Pi. The novel has two very conflicting possible plots, either of which could be true and believable, but the underlining message is still survival. Pi would still have to kill the cook or the hyena in order to survive with his new found madness. This madness that allows humans to survive, “ moves… in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways” appears when Pi is marooned on the lifeboat, and it festers (Martel 41). Madness caused Pi to kill his first fish, train a tiger, or kill the cook, all the while slowly growing within him.The novel contains an animal and unrealistic story versus the plausible and realistic story where the reader decides which plot line to believe, but there is no deciding about adaptation when it comes to survival.