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Through Pi's story of overcoming adversity, Yaan Martel portrays the theme that forgiveness is crucial to the mending of a shattered identity and is the catalyst for self rebirth.

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Naive Pi learns that you can't hold a grudge forever; forgiveness is the only option.

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Naive Pi learns that you can't hold a grudge forever; forgiveness is the only option.

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"The lesson was over. Ravi and I sulked and gave Father the cold shoulder for a week. But what can you do when you love your father? Life goes on and you don't touch tigers" (21).

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Pi finds it hard to accept the tragic events and forgive life for these situations.

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Pi finds it hard to accept the tragic events and forgive life for these situations.

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"Tell me it's a bad dream. Tell me it's not real. Tell me I'm still in my bunk on the Tsimtsum and I'm tossing and turning and soon I'll wake up from this nightmare. Tell me I'm still happy" (56).

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Hardship forces Pi into a loss of self identity.

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Hardship forces Pi into a loss of self identity.

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“She was beheaded. The neck wound was still bleeding. It was a sight horrible to the eyes and killing to the spirit” (72).

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Pi realizes he needs to forgive Richard Parker in order to move forward in his journey.

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Pi realizes he needs to forgive Richard Parker in order to move forward in his journey.

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"'I love you, Richard Parker. If I didn't have you now, I don't know what I would do. I don't think I would make it'" (124).

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Pi forgives the events which shattered his understanding of morals and finds a new sense of self through it.

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Pi forgives the events which shattered his understanding of morals and finds a new sense of self through it.

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"You may be astonished that in such a short period of time I could go from weeping over the muffled killing of a flying fish to gleefully bludgeoning to death a dorado" (98).

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Grave situations drive Pi deeper into a pit of hopelessness where forgiveness is the only way to move forward.

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Grave situations drive Pi deeper into a pit of hopelessness where forgiveness is the only way to move forward.

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"I blew on my whistle with all my might. I shouted at the top of my lungs. All to no avail" (124).

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Pi must forgive in order to cope with the loss of materials in a storm and find motivation to continue.

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Pi must forgive in order to cope with the loss of materials in a storm and find motivation to continue.

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"Much of our food was gone, either lost overboard or destroyed by the water that had come in. I was sore all over and had a bad cut on my thigh; the wound was swollen and white" (110).

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Pi's identity is shattered as despair triumphs over him. 

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Pi's identity is shattered as despair triumphs over him. 

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"I will further confess that, driven by the extremity of my need and the madness to which it pushed me, I ate some of his flesh" (140).

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Pi realizes that letting go is necessary and forgiveness hurts.

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Pi realizes that letting go is necessary and forgiveness hurts.

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"No whip could have inflicted a more painful lash. I held my mother's head in my hands. I let it go" (172).

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Pi forgives himself for letting anger control his identity and gains momentum from it.

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Pi forgives himself for letting anger control his identity and gains momentum from it.

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"He was such an evil man. Worse still, he met evil in me-selfishness, anger, ruthlessness. I must live with that" (173).

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Pi chooses to forgive all of his past trials and imperfections and finds a new realization of self.

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Pi chooses to forgive all of his past trials and imperfections and finds a new realization of self.

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"By the time morning came, my grim decision was taken. I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island" (154).

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Though it seemed like paradise, the island, a floating mass of algae (appositive), represents all of the situations and decisions that stripped Pi of his values and morals. Choosing to rot in the guilt and torment caused by these affairs leads to “spiritual death” and an impaired ability to truly find oneself. Pi eventually makes the “grim decision” to leave the island, searching for a new beginning (participle). Forgiving your past is the only way to escape a “lonely half life.” The easy temptation of capitulating to guilt and suffering is strong; however, it will (; transition , ) only leave you stranded on a “murderous island” (154). Forgiveness is the only way to fix a broken identity and find self rebirth.

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"I double underlined the first two letters of my given name Pi Patel. For good measure I added Pi=3.14… A new beginning" (14).