Richard Parker Monologue

Forgive me, I really didn’t want to kill you, but it was either you or me, you live, or I live, one of us must leave. Sir, it did not have to have to be so, if it wasn’t for your actions, we could have survived together. Did you know the fear and loneliness I had to endure? Do you know the feeling of losing a loved one, especially when you witness it with your clear eye, if you even had a clear sight? My mother was murdered because of the same reason why you tried to stab me, you were greedy, so was the cook who deserved no love from God, oh no, the hyena! With that filthy knife you tried to stick up my throat, you perfectly resemble him, him who KILLED My Mother! For what is broken in your brain? What makes you think that cannibalism is acceptable?!
This reflective silence and peace remained within me for a while, as I sat there, reminiscing about my life, awaiting my breath to leave my body. The sound ‘Is someone there’ broke the silence. I was overjoyed at the existence of another voice like me. I thought it was another person, which then I figured out it was Richard Parker. I made a shocking discovery that this seemingly well trained tiger who has been raised in the zoo since it was cub shared one same trait as the murderous cook, he killed a man and a women once in his life. How could he? I was so proud to explain why I am human, and he, was animal, simply because of what he has done. My live in me disappeared again... until when I heard ‘only an echo, I fear’. My silence, my wish to die, my loneliness… All was broken. My spark to live just suddenly reignited again, and I immediately wondered who the voice’s owner is. Discovering the voice owner, and that was you. My brother, my only true company on my long voyage whom determines my survival. We had good talks about food, my friend, your voice was truly a branch floating in the water which I held on to in order to stay