Pifried and roy

The reader having knowledge of a happy ending before getting into the meat of the conflict is a way Martel puts emphasis on a more analytical reading of the story. Rather than just being an enthralling and remarkable story of a boy trapped on a boat with a tiger and what he does to survive, which it is, the story becomes a medium for him to show anything he wants. Just about everything in the story from the sinking ship on it feels like has a deeper meaning, most of these elude my grasp but I felt I could get a few of them. Pi’s ceaseless hoping for personal salvation is a testament to the love of life he gained through religion prior to the ship. The Zebra enduring the suffering as it’s eaten alive brings home the reality of savage animal nature, something his father tried to show him when the Tiger ate the goat. Pi kind of see’s himself in the orangutan Orange Juice, a very humanlike animal, placed in a life and death situation, stricken with grief and doing the remarkable to attempt survival. Pi isn’t the only one on the boat faced with the prospect of death, and each does what it has to do in order to survive.