pg.150) After staying afloat on the lifeboat with Pi yelling at all the religious leaders he believes in, he proves that he has not lost faith in any religion despite this who believes in front, Pi experiences a somewhat "oceanic" feeling. “In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: originally the Ego understands everything, then it detaches the external world from itself. The feeling of the Ego that we are aware of today is therefore only a diminished trace of a much vaster feeling, a feeling that embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable bond of the Ego with the external world. (Freud page 4) Freud in this comment explains what the self goes through to feel oceanic through religion. Freud also says that “three-quarters of suffering comes from our own body. Which is destined for decay and dissolution, and cannot even do without anxiety and pain as danger signals; from the outside world, which can rage against us with the most powerful and ruthless forces of destruction and familiar from our relationships with other men". This is intertwined with Martel making Pi say “It is needless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that none of them became champion. Yet, that second night at sea remains in my memory as an exceptional suffering, different from the frozen anxiety of the first night in that it is a more conventional type of suffering, the broken one composed of crying, sadness and spiritual pain, and different from those that followed as I still had the strength to fully appreciate what I felt. At this moment Martel has Pi in a lonely and vulnerable state on the lifeboat. When Pi reaches desperation for food to hi...... middle of paper......ry. Japanese men do not believe Pi's story. They didn't believe Pi survived with a wild tiger on board. The two Japanese said they didn't really like Pi's story. Pi then asks if they want to hear a flat story without animalsPi begins a story without animals in which a French cook, a sailor with a broken leg and his mother are with him on the lifeboat. The cook cuts off the sailor's leg and eats him, scaring Pi. Later Pi's mother and the cook get into an argument which leads the cook to kill Pi's mother by throwing Pi's head. Afterwards, Pi kills the cook. Mr. Okamoto notes the similarities in the stories where the two men don't know what to believe. They continue to ask for details on whether the ship actually sank. Pi asks them to choose which story they like. The two men enjoy their first story, at which Pi begins to cry.