Life of Pi, Yann Martel's story begins with a religious boy who has two distinctive personalities and one of them is symbolized by the character Richard Parker. Richard Parker is depicted as a tiger to convey Pi's saving side and to show the dual nature of humanity. In addition to the fact that Pi has the two contrasting personalities, the “Id” article presents Freudian psychoanalytic theory in which he explains “the three agencies of the human personality” (Id). To conclude, through the use of the article "Id" and Martel's use of imagery to represent Richard Parker as Pi's other personality, one can see both how humans can have contrasting personalities and how Pi has a contrasting personality. Likewise, Martel's use of ambiguous imagery confirms that Richard Parker at the beginning of the book will be Pi's surviving side. When Richard Parker was first introduced in a black and white photo, Martel gave Richard Parker an ambiguous appearance by giving the animal a human name and saying "Richard Parker, can you believe what happened to us" (Martel 97 ). Immediately giving a human image to the reader's mind conveys that Richard Parker is actually a human being from whom we readers want to "extract personality from appearance" (Martel 87), but the appearance from which Martel wants people to extract it is Pi himself. Because Pi has this survival side that he doesn't need at that time and that's why Richard Parker isn't described in much detail so that people can know from the beginning that Pi has another side of himself. Or when he gets stuck on the boat with this tiger Pi begins to move away, due to the overwhelming side of himself that makes him say “Let go, I don't want you here” (But......half of paper ...and forcing himself to "carve out my territory" (Martel 202) because Pi has realized what he has become and how he can't do anything about it so Pi becomes blind because he can't see anything in his eyes but the fact that he looks through the eyes of Richard Parker. Finally, until the end of the book, Martel uses imagery to conclude how Pi still has Richard Parker, but doesn't need him to stumble upon a seaweed island that has a plethora of food while exploring the island and became accustomed to the island, Richard Parker was said to "kill beyond his need" (Martel 269) Pi's rescue side is now comfortable with Pi as Pi observes himself to be this beast As he moves forward day after day Richard Parker fills his stomach with everything he can eat to ensure that Pi survives, as Pi himself mainly eats algae to get back to his morals..