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Yann martel shares what it means to be human through the interaction of Pi and Richard parker. To be human is to have innocence, which allows you to live and cope with the world. Pi sees himself in Richerd parker because "we look at an animal and see a mirror." (Martel 31) If PI symbolizes the innocence in a person; therefore, (comma conjunction) Richerd parker is a reflection of PI's primal nature that society does not accept. To cope with the reality that he had become an uncivilized beast on the lifeboat PI imagined Richerd Parker, a primal beast of nature, (appositive phrase) to preserve his innocence. PI's situation was not just an adventure, riding the untamed sea, (particle) but a journey of true acceptance of one's primal side to survive the harsh world and how to find the innocence to live in it.

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Pi could have left him but he didn't because pi understands he can't survive without his primal side so instead of leaving him on the island- a truly savage action- he chose redemption and saved Richerd parker symbolizing PI's acceptance of his savage side.

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Pi could have left him but he didn't because pi understands he can't survive without his primal side so instead of leaving him on the island- a truly savage action- he chose redemption and saved Richerd parker symbolizing PI's acceptance of his savage side.

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"I could not abandon Richard Parker. To leave him would mean to kill him. He would not survive the first night. Alone in my lifeboat at sunset I would know that he was burning alive. Or that he had thrown himself in the sea, where he would drown. I waited for his return." (Martel 283)

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Richard parker is a reflection of this vicious side society wouldn’t accept and to cope with that idea PI reflected it onto Richerd parker and through the course of his journey he comes to terms with the dark side he has resisted for so long.

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Richard parker is a reflection of this vicious side society wouldn’t accept and to cope with that idea PI reflected it onto Richerd parker and through the course of his journey he comes to terms with the dark side he has resisted for so long.

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“But I learned at my expense that Father believed there was another animal even more dangerous than us, and one that was extremely common, too, found on every continent, in every habitat: the redoubtable species Animalus anthropomorphicus, the animal as seen through human eyes. " (Martel 31)

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Pi is saying goodbye to his primal state as he returns back to a civilized self truly letting go of his trauma, as he looks to Richard Parker hoping he changed him because if not then he was just an idea his innocence created for him to cope with the harsh reality of the world.  

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Pi is saying goodbye to his primal state as he returns back to a civilized self truly letting go of his trauma, as he looks to Richard Parker hoping he changed him because if not then he was just an idea his innocence created for him to cope with the harsh reality of the world.  

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"That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day. I wish so much that I'd had one last look at him in the lifeboat, that I'd provoked him a little, so that I was on his mind." (Martel 286)

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Pi was faced with a choice on the island to survive happily on this island, symbolizing false paradise, or leave and have a chance to live a happy life that will allow him to grow and move on from these horrors.

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Pi was faced with a choice on the island to survive happily on this island, symbolizing false paradise, or leave and have a chance to live a happy life that will allow him to grow and move on from these horrors.

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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." (Martel 283)

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Pi asserted his dominance over Richard Parker, his primal side, and remained in control of his innocence.

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Pi asserted his dominance over Richard Parker, his primal side, and remained in control of his innocence.

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"For two, perhaps three seconds, a terrific battle of minds for status and authority was waged between a boy and a tiger. He needed to make only the shortest of lunges to be on top of me. But I held my stare." (Martel 222)

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Through Richerd parkers nature to be very territorial he parallels how humans need to be dominants of this idea of social hierarchy shaping our human nature.

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Through Richerd parkers nature to be very territorial he parallels how humans need to be dominants of this idea of social hierarchy shaping our human nature.

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"So you see, it was not good zookeeping I was up to, but psychological bullying. And it worked." (Martel 211)

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Pi is indulging in this primal nature that his religion has resented for a long time, paralleling why humans craft ideas like religion to battle harsh reality and remain civilized.

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Pi is indulging in this primal nature that his religion has resented for a long time, paralleling why humans craft ideas like religion to battle harsh reality and remain civilized.

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"I never forget to include this fish in my prayers. After that it was easier. Now that it was dead, the flying fish looked like fish I had seen in the markets of Pondicherry."  (Martel 183)

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Through Pi he parallels how we are at constant war with ourselves fighting for innocence against experience, which makes us human.

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Through Pi he parallels how we are at constant war with ourselves fighting for innocence against experience, which makes us human.

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"We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life-hungry stupidity." (Martel 148)

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Through Pi's opinion, he shares his view of how humans use religion to make themselves civilized by creating moral choices to protect their innocence.

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Through Pi's opinion, he shares his view of how humans use religion to make themselves civilized by creating moral choices to protect their innocence.

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"For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart." (Martel 71)

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They all believe in religion and the desire to love god but they all want to be better than the other religion perfectly reflecting the two sides of man in society. 

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They all believe in religion and the desire to love god but they all want to be better than the other religion perfectly reflecting the two sides of man in society. 

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"Father cleared his throat and said in a half-voice, "I suppose that's what we're all trying to do-love God." I thought it very funny that he should say that, he who hadn't stepped into a temple with a serious intent since I had had the faculty of memory." (Martel 69)

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God was too human for pi, but he understood that god isn't only a person but a feeling you have in yourself that fuels the will to live.

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God was too human for pi, but he understood that god isn't only a person but a feeling you have in yourself that fuels the will to live.

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"This Son is a god who died in three hours, with moans, gasps and laments. What kind of a god is that? What is there to inspire in this Son?

Love, said Father Martin." (Martel 55)

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Pi's experiences his innocence being stripped away contributing to a change in his human nature to a more negative view of the world.

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Pi's experiences his innocence being stripped away contributing to a change in his human nature to a more negative view of the world.

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“I don't know if I saw blood before turning into Mother's arms or if I dabbed it on later, in my memory, with a big brush. But I heard. It was enough to scare the living vegetarian daylights out of me.” (Martel 36)

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Richard Parker symbolizes Pi's Primal instincts 

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Richard Parker symbolizes Pi's Primal instincts 

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"So the Taiwanese sailor is the zebra, his mother is the orang-utan, the cook is ... the hyena - which means he is the tiger!" (Martel 311)

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Through pi’s relationship with Richard Parker and religion Yann Martel shares his view on innocence and experience along side the theme on what it means to be human