Life of Pi

The most recent book I have read is called Life of Pi by Yann Martel. It is about a young teenager, Pi, who is trapped out at sea for two hundred and seventy seven days on a small life boat with no food or fresh water. Pi is trapped on the life boat with only animals from a cargo ship transferring animals to a different zoo. Pi is forced through many challenges and comes close to death many times. I really liked this book because the author was writing about how the will to stay alive is all about how far you are willing to push yourself and what you are willing to give up. The author shows this by Pi having to give up his goal to stay a vegetarian by eating fish he has caught in order to stay alive. I do agree with the author because I do think that you have to push yourself to stay alive, and when you cant push yourself anymore and you give up you die. I think that if you have the will power to stay alive, and you really want to you can. Even if you have to do things you do not want to or give up goals you do not want to.