Comparing Pi And Keesh's Character Analysis

How can two people in different excerpts, survive in harsh weather, bad conditions, or hunger? Well these two people used their bravery, patience, and most important for all human beings is intelligence. Anyone can survive on extreme environments especially Pi and Keesh who can believe they can survive and think what they’re about to do. Keesh survived, and helped others in his community to survive the cold and harsh weather in his village by killing bears for food, although not with his weapons, but with his brains. “The next day he went forth along the shoreline where the ice and land met together. Those who saw go noted that he carried his bow, with a goodly supply of bone barbed arrows, and that across his shoulders was his father’s big hunting spear.” This explains that Keesh was going outside his village with his father’s weapons so that everyone that can see him knows that he is going hunting and not coming back. He needed his father spear so that he can kill the bear when it goes all to plan. When Keesh got back to his village, he came back with a bear and his plan was going to the

The only thing he can use is the tarpaulin hooks. “The tarpaulin hooks. Short, blunt, solid. I kneeled on the bench and leaned over. Holding the can with both my hands, I sharply brought it up against a hook. A good dint. I did it again. Another dint next to the first. By dint of dinting, I managed the trick. A pearl of water appeared. I licked it off. I turned the can and banged the opposite side of the top against the hook to make another hole. I worked like a fiend. I made a larger hole. I sat back on the gunnel. I held the can up to my face. I opened my mouth. I tilted the can.” He found the can, but can’t find the can opener, so he uses a tarpaulin hook to open it. This explains how thirsty Pi is and was going to die if he didn’t open the can. He was desperate so he licked a pearl of water on the