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The point of suffering is all a test. Suffering is a test of moral stance and emotional capability. In the novel, Pi reaches rock bottom and faced with his biggest fears. The point is that Pi was able to develop endurance, courage, and prosperity to be able to live to tell his story. Suffering is not always about the result of a negative event, but suffering is about observing a person's capability to grow independently. Pi is alone of the boat along with Richard Parker for a period of time. Eventually, Pi ends up loosing everything he loves yet he still is able to find a source of perseverance. Similar to Pi's journey in the ocean, many journeys of suffering that we face in life are going to be strenuous and seem unclear. However, Pi learns through his suffering that attachment and accompaniment is temporary but faith and independence are forever.

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Richard Parker is the name of the tiger who ends up on board the ship with Pi. The tiger is untrained, stubborn, fearless, and powerful. At first, Pi was very scared of the tiger. Richard Parker represents obstacles that can be faced while suffering. I think that the author uses the tiger to show how suffering is a period of both growth and weakening of the mind. Through Richard and Pi's relationship, the author conveyed that sometimes fear can get in the way of following a path of liberation from our own suffering

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Through Pi's journey, the author is able to convey the message of the true value of suffering. The suffering of Pi himself is caused not only by the loss of his family but also by loss of everything he has ever known in his life. Pi is forced to discover himself, while coping with the circumstances at hand.

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As Pi becomes exposed to extreme physical deprivation, he also loses his grip on reality. He and Richard Parker lose their sight, and then they can no longer see the sun. Fear of death and eternal isolation fills Pi's mind as his survival trickles down as days continue to pass undiscovered on the boat.

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"An Indian citizen, is an astounding story of courage and endurance in the face of extraordinarily difficult and tragic circumstances...Very few castaways can claim to have survived for so long at sea and none in the company of an adult Bengal Tiger." (Martel 319)

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Pi's imagination is what allows him to cope and get through his suffering. 

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Pi's imagination is what allows him to cope and get through his suffering. 

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To overcome suffering you much be willing to take a chance into the invisible world of "unknown"

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To overcome suffering you much be willing to take a chance into the invisible world of "unknown"

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Suffering forces development of faith as the rock to purpose

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Suffering forces development of faith as the rock to purpose

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Suffering is about teaching others about the value of the greatest good 

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Suffering is about teaching others about the value of the greatest good 

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Mrs. Richard
English V H / Period 3
18 October 2018

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The Grand Scheme of Physical and Mental Suffering 

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The Grand Scheme of Physical and Mental Suffering 

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In this novel, the author makes a closed connection between Pi's physical and mental suffering. Pi'w physical journey of suffering and pain was a test to his mental knowledge and inner courage. For example, Pi travels across the ocean and stumbles upon a carnivorous island. Pi makes the mental decisions to leave the island because it was not safe. When Pi leaves the island, Pi sacrifices his physical pain in order to keep his will to stay alive. Pi shows that you are able to live through mental suffering if you are capable of living through physical suffering. When you conquer your mental struggle, you have the courage to take on your physical struggle with out fear.

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"I was weeping because Richard Parker had left me so unceremoniously." (Martel, 316)

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"They were dead; I could no longer deny it. What a thing to acknowledge in your heart! To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old... To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek...To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. [...]. I lay down on the tarpaulin and spent the whole night weeping and grieving, my face buried in my arms".(Martel, 141)

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" I clung to life. I was weakly frantic. The heat was infernal. I had so little strength I could no longer stand. My lips were hard and cracked. My mouth was dry and pasty, coated with a glutinous saliva as foul to taste as it was to smell. My skin was burnt. My shriveled muscles ached. My limbs, especially my feet, were swollen and a consistent source of pain." (Martel 268)

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"I have never known a worse physical hell than this putrid taste and pasty feeling in the mouth, this unbearable pressure at the back of the throat, this sensation that my blood was turning to a thick syrup that barely flowed."(Martel 150)

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The state of undergoing pain, stress or hardship.
Suffering is displayed both physically and mentally in Life of Pi.