Reflect On This!

Life of Pi was written by Yann Martel. It is a novel about a young boy named Piscine (Pi) Molitor Patel, who grew up in the South Indian city of Pondicherry, where his father owned a zoo. His parents decided that selling the zoo and moving to Canada for a better life was necessary and so when Pi was sixteen, himself and his family boarded the Tsimtsum along with the zoo’s animal inhabitants (who are on their way to be sold around the world). For an unknown reason, the Tsimtsum sunk and Pi was the only survivor, along with a couple of animals and a tiger named Richard Parker. It was not long until it was only Pi and Richard Parker. They did not get along and until Pi took charge, Richard Parker remained on the lifeboat, while Pi was on a raft. While at sea, Pi and Richard Parker faced many challenges, traumas, tragedies, and miraculous occurrences. They were usually without food and fresh water. To solve the problem, typically Pi fished out fish and boiled warm water in the sun. For 227 days, Pi had to get along with the dangerous Richard Parker, though Richard Parker was the one to give Pi hope. In the end, the lifeboat reached a beach in Mexico. Richard Parker immediately runs off into the jungle without acknowledging Pi. 

What would you do if you were in Pi's situation? How would you survive such a disastrous accident?