In this passage, I believe it reveals the entire point of the story, which tells us how humans' beliefs may change during crisis. Sometimes, we believe in something strongly, but then we may have to abandon our beliefs in order to survive. Yann Martel, referred to Pi and the lifeboat as "a perfect metaphor for the human condition," because Pi's religious beliefs had to be put aside in order to survive on the lifeboat. Pi understood that he wouldn't be able to survive if he was going to stay a vegetarian.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Belief?
Author's Note: This is a response to the quote,"the idea of a religious boy in a lifeboat with a wild animal struck me as a perfect metaphor for the human condition. Humans aspire to really high things, right, like religion, justice, democracy. At the same time, we're rooted in our human, animal condition. And so, all of those brought together in a lifeboat struck me as being... as a perfect metaphor," said by Yann Martel.
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I responded completely differently to this, but I think that yours has very good reference and attention to the quote and to real life and I think that it was really well written.
ReplyDeleteI guess I didn't really think about it that way. But I agree with you how like Pi couldn't survive if he stayed vegetarian. I think you might have the right idea.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your idea that only when we are in a situation where we have time to think about larger things we are able to come up with things like vegetarianism.
ReplyDeleteI can actually connect to this sort of...although it's not about survival. I skip church (abandoning beliefs) sometimes to go and work with my father (money=survival to me). It sounds totally horrible, but it's what I do.
ReplyDeleteI agree and you explained it very well.
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