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In the novel Life of Pi by Yeann Martel, the theme of living versus existing is explored through the character of Pi patel by facing choices that go against his morals.

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Pi shows his flexibility with religion and belief. 

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Pi shows his flexibility with religion and belief. 

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“Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith,” (16)

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Pi is determined to survive and refuses to give up. 

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Pi is determined to survive and refuses to give up. 

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“I was giving up. I would have given up-if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart.” (68)

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“I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.” (74)

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Pi is shows his views on his relationship with Richard Parker. 

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Pi is shows his views on his relationship with Richard Parker. 

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“I had to tame him. It was at that moment that I realized this necessity… We were literally and figuratively in the same boat” (75)

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Pi kills a fish in order to get the nutrients he needs to survive. 

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Pi kills a fish in order to get the nutrients he needs to survive. 

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“Tears flowing down my cheeks, I egged myself on until I heard a cracking sound and I no longer felt any life fighting in my hands.”

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Pi loses touch with his faith in order to survive. 

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Pi loses touch with his faith in order to survive. 

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“It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.” (85)

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“Faith in god is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love” (95)

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Pi stops enjoying his life because he is lost at sea. 

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Pi stops enjoying his life because he is lost at sea. 

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“Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life” (99)

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“I was dazed, thunderstruck-nearly in the true sense of the word. But not afraid” (106)

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Pi stops following his own ethics and morals. 

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Pi stops following his own ethics and morals. 

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“I will further confess that, driven by extremity of my need and the madness to which it pushed me, I ate some of his flesh.” (117)

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Pi goes back to enjoying life when he arrives at the island.

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Pi goes back to enjoying life when he arrives at the island.

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“He killed beyond his need. He killed meerkats that he did not eat. In animals, the urge to kill is separate from the urge to eat. To go for so long without prey and suddenly to have so many–his pent-up hunting instinct was lashing out with a vengeance.” (123)

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“I could not abandon Richard Parker. To leave him would mean to kill him.” (129)

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Despite the overwhelming odds against him, Pi finds the strength to continue fighting for his life. Pi starts to try to just exist. He is no longer sticking to his faith as much as he did before, and that is why he needs to kill and eat the fish, a symbol of his changing morals(appositive). This action was extreme for him and it caused him lots of emotion. Pi realized he needed to continue living; therefore,(semicolon; transition comma) the only way to keep existing was to make sure that the" flying fish was dead" (84). Pi, losing touch with his faith (absolute), takes another step away from living to existing as he no longer caters to his own ethics and starts to focus solely on his basic necessities to survive.