Life of Pi Quote Response

After reading this interview between Yann Martel and Ray Suarez, this quote stood out to me the most: "the idea of a religious boy in a lifeboat with a wild animal struck me as a perfect metaphor for the human condition. Humans aspire to really high things, right, like religion, justice, democracy. At the same time, we're rooted in our human, animal condition. And so, all of those brought together in a lifeboat struck me as being... as a perfect metaphor." My interpretation about this quote is that every human being tries to be the best person that you can be, and we try to think that we can go through our whole lives being perfect and good, with no mistakes or wrongdoings made. Once Pi is on the lifeboat though, we see that humans can easily lose the sense of attempting to be good and turn into total beasts. All of us try to think that we would remain good, yet that's simply not the case. Being thrown into a situation as awful as Pi's would quickly turn us all into monsters.