An Analysis Of Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

In the novel Life of Pi, the author Yann Martel does state that the novel will have a happy ending but when looking more deeply into this idea, it shows that the novel did not in fact have a happy ending for Pi. This can be proven from the fact that all his loved ones left him, from his suffering and the experience traumatized him.
Throughout the novel Life of Pi, the character Pi faces horrible experiences with the people he calls his family. When the ship sank, Pi lost his parents and brother. This changed his life forever because he had to live with the fact that from this point and on in his life, he was completely alone. The fact that his entire family died and he didn’t even get to say goodbye proves that Pi did not have a happy ending.

When Pi is talking to the two reporters’ one of them says “He’s already had plenty and most he hasn’t eaten. They’re right there beneath his bed sheet” [Martel, chapter 98], the reporters realize that Pi is hoarding the cookies and think he’s crazy, but he’s only doing that because he’s only traumatized from the catastrophe and since he was limited on food in the boat; stashing food is purely a habit for him now. The experience traumatized him so much that he continues to do what he did on the boat on land too and that’s not a happy ending for him because he wants to leaves that experience in the past but brings it with him everyone he

The experience Pi had on the lifeboat was horrible and was not a good time for him. His family, Richard Parker and orange juice which he all loved very much all left him in some way. He starved from hunger, became partially blind and physical suffered so much that he would never forget it. Last but not least, this entire experience traumatized Pi with the ship wreck, Richard Parker killing a human and the way he hoarded food traumatized him. How could all that Pi went through sound like a happy ending when he lost so much of himself throughout his