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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Identify the argument that the novel makes about the value of suffering. Justify your stance.

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Identify the argument that the novel makes about the value of suffering. Justify your stance.

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After a shipwreck and loss of his parents, Pi faces adversary while trying to keep himself alive. Despite his physical trials of trying to survive in grueling conditions while stranded, Pi finds ways to cope and accept his sufferings. Pi is accepting of his sufferings and finds a way to optimistically overcome his mental and physical trials.

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"When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling" (Martel 5).

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"When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling" (Martel 5).

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Before telling his story, Pi reflects on the pain of each suffering in his journey. He acknowledges the pain in each individual suffering, but categorizes them irrelevant. By considering his suffering in general as meaningless, he is able to accept the pain his sufferings bring him.

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"For the first time I noticed – as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next – that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right" (Martel 177).

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"For the first time I noticed – as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next – that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right" (Martel 177).

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Pi downplays his suffering by comparing it to the grand scheme of the universe. His perspective of suffering allows him to prevail in life. Even though he is stranded and his situation looks dismal, Pi is accepting of his trials.

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"Still, that second night at sea stands in my memory as one of exceptional suffering, different from the frozen anxiety of the first night in being a more conventional sort of suffering, the broken-down kind consisting of weeping and sadness and spiritual pain, and different from later ones in that I still had the strength to appreciate fully what I felt" (Martel 123-124).

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"Still, that second night at sea stands in my memory as one of exceptional suffering, different from the frozen anxiety of the first night in being a more conventional sort of suffering, the broken-down kind consisting of weeping and sadness and spiritual pain, and different from later ones in that I still had the strength to appreciate fully what I felt" (Martel 123-124).

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Despite being stranded at sea, Pi still finds a sense of appreciation for what remains in his life. By thinking optimistically, Pi finds a way to be at peace with his physical and mental trials that come with surviving alone with little resources to survive.

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"The pain was so severe I felt nothing. Blessed be shock. Blessed be that part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow" (Martel 180).

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"The pain was so severe I felt nothing. Blessed be shock. Blessed be that part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow" (Martel 180).

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Pi experiences physical suffering from his surrounding when he is struck by a flying fish while inside the lifeboat.

Pi is unable to feel the full extent of his sufferings due to shock. Despite the adversities he faces, Pi is thankful that due to shock he cannot feel the full extent of his suffering.

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"It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering, I should turn to God" (Martel 283-284).

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"It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering, I should turn to God" (Martel 283-284).

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Pi believes his suffering to be bearable with help from God. By focusing on God's protection, Pi finds a way to mentally control his suffering.