PTSD In Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

Most members of a society experience a tragic event; for example, the loss of a friend, loved one, etc. Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi tells the story of Piscine (Pi) Patel, an Indian boy named after a pool in France, who sets sail with his family towards Canada, with their father's collection of zoo animals. As soon their boat reached the open Pacific, it sank. Pi managed to get aboard a lifeboat where he was stranded for 227 days, with a wounded zebra, and orangutan, a hyena, and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. But the question is, did Pi Patel imagine the whole ordeal? Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (or PTSD) can cause people to have a loss of time, place, or person orientation, or even an increased or decreased awareness of surroundings1. Did he imagine
It also explains a few of the things described in his first story. When the cook threw himself on the sailors face and scalped it off, both Pi and his mother vomited. This would explain the vomit that Pi found in the lifeboat and thought was Richard Parker's. Also, as Mr. Okamoto noticed that the two stories Pi told match. The wounded zebra had its leg bitten off by the hyena just as the Chinese sailor that had his leg cut off from the cook to be used as bait. The orangutan was killed by the hyena as well, and Pi's mother was killed by the cook. The fight was similar as well, the orangutan hit the hyena, and the hyena killed the orangutan, just like how Pi's mother hit the cook, and then the cook stabbed his mother. Mr. Okamoto came to a conclusion that the hyena represented the cook (the cook is also the blind Frenchman who admitted to killing a man and a women), the orangutan represented Pi's mother, the zebra represented the Chinese sailor and as for Richard Parker, he represented Pi, because he killed the