How Did Pi Survive

Is there a point at which someone’s survival needs take over what is right in their religious beliefs? That is exactly what Pi is going to find out on a lifeboat with four animals. His family was on a boat headed to Canada when is sank do to a engine failure. Pi is the only human alive along with a Hyena, Zebra, Orangutan and a Tiger. There is a huge fight for survival in a little lifeboat. Pi's actions are justified in the case of survival. Pi was pushed to the edge and would do anything to survive. Even though some of his beliefs ruled against it, he had to eat and kill in order to survive. It is best said in the book, “When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival” (Martel 120). This shows that if pushed to the limits, anyone will do anything to survive. "In its wild state, life is a constant struggle for survival, a perpetual race for food and safety in which death is a constant possibility" (Milne). Pi will not live unless he kills or eats, that is the harsh reality. He has to live with that fact and decides to eat in order for him to survive.
He knows that survival it a top priority. In The Life of Pi, it states that, “You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it” (Martel 91). Never once did Pi lose hope. He always tried to find a way to survive with some dangerous animals on board and live. “Even when God seemed to have abandoned me," the older Pi says, "he was actually watching” (Cooper). The religious beliefs that Pi has do not just leave him in the dark either. He is always taken care of. When he feels like there is no way of surviving he always talks to God and asks for help and he