Richard Parker Life Of Pi Quote Analysis

In this quote, the author is talking about being creative and how creativity helps people get through life. The thing that got Pi through his journey was Richard Parker. Pi’s innocent self could not have made it through being stranded without his animalistic side. The “creativity” being mentioned is about how Pi created Richard Parker in order to survive. Without it, Pi would either not physically make it or mentally break down without a scapegoat for his conscious. The quote foreshadows the stories that is going to be told in the author's note: one with an unbelievable storyline and another story that is cruel and harsh, but more realistic. This piece of evidence also shows how life can be significant and meaningful with art and imagination.
The contrast of the two stories show two different perspectives that can symbolize perspectives of life. The first story, which is more i believable, shows the will to live and adds the creativity to the storyline. Richard Parker, the animalistic side of Pi, helped Pi survive and the hope that Richard Parker gave him made the story more relatable to real like and made it seem like they both had a real connection. The second story however, shows how the bare minimum creativity and the same story can be cruel and vicious. The cook was ruthless and inhumane. Creativity takes away the scariness and hatefulness of the world and without it, it shows how awful and sad things in the world really are, just like how Richard Parker made Pi seem more human and more innocent, and the story with the humans seemed more impossible and harder to connect