“Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.” (George Bernard Shaw). In Life of Pi, Yann Martel shows Pi's change from starting out as a vegetarian to ending up as a carnivore during his time on the boat. Pi's experience on the boat interfered with his vegetarian diet, and he learned that the only way to survive was to make great sacrifices. Pi's love for animals and his childhood life led him to become a vegetarian. Pi grew up a strict vegetarian, his parents and everyone he knew were vegetarians, to be honest, the entire region he lived in was vegetarian. If the social norm had been vegetarian, Pi would not have been different from the others. Pi had never eaten any kind of meat in his life, the mere thought of eating it made him feel nauseous. Therefore, only a life or death situation could change Pi from being a vegetarian. Ladies, to think I'm a strict vegetarian. To think that as a child I always trembled when I opened a banana because it felt like breaking an animal's neck. I descended to a level of ferocity I never imagined possible. (Yann Martel, 249). Pi demonstrates how serious he was about his vegetarian faith simply by believing he killed a banana and how difficult it would have been for him to even think about eating meat. So, Pi reacted very solemnly when he killed the flying fish. Tears streaming down my cheeks, I cheered until I heard a pop and I no longer felt the life struggling in my hands. I pulled back the folds of the blanket. The flying fish was dead. He was torn and bleeding on one side of his head, at the level of the gills (231). Pi grieved for the fish as if it were his family. It shows how thoughtful and serious his love for animals is... middle of paper... the amount of meat he has to eat. As a result, he also tried eating feces to keep himself from eating meat. I once tried to eat Richard Parker's feces. It happened early, when my system had not yet learned to live with hunger and my imagination was still wildly searching for solutions (237). This shows his insane desperation to continue his vegetarian ways. For this reason, when he is older, Pi will be a vegetarian again. He serves the author spicy vegetarian food. Even after many months of eating meat, he still shows his dedication. Now a grown man, Piscine is a vegetarian again and will most likely remain that way for the rest of his life. Change can have a positive or negative side. People say that time can change a person, but what allows this change to happen is themselves. “Now I can look at you in peace; I won't eat you anymore." (Franz Kafka)