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  Other Life Lessons
  The will to live -Through Pi Yann Martel demonstrates the power of the human mind and body when faced with death.
  -On the boat, Pi becomes accustomed to gruesome and desperate actions just to stay alive. Many of these things Pi would not have even thought about doing before the ship sank. For instance Pi had to conquer his vegetarianism and peaceful ways so he could feed himself by catching a killing fish.
  -Pi also had to face his fear of Richard Parker and demonstrate dominance over him in order to stay alive and co-exist with Richard on the lifeboat.
  -Pi shows just how determined he is just by surviving all of the 200 plus days. His situation was all but hopeless with no human contact, little food, a giant tiger, and the harsh conditions of the ocean. However by keeping himself busy and staying positive, Pi was finally saved when his raft came to shore in Mexico.
  

" The lower you are, the higher the mind will soar"(283)

The Power of Storytelling
-Pi likes the thought that anything is possible in a story. It is interesting to him what the mind can come up with
-Throughout the book, Pi talks about many stories that have to deal with human interactions with people. Thus introducing the reader into his hobbies, which are storytelling and studying animals.
-Pi’s mind and remembrance of better times helped him maintain sanity and hope while on the raft.
-We cannot be sure that everything Pi says that happened on the raft is factual because of his fondness of storytelling, meaning he could have made a lot of it up.
-In a way, Storytelling is a gateway into religion. After all, all religions base their beliefs off of storytelling and are a central point of the core belief of a relgion.