Polished Response Writing: Life of Pi

"Oh the horror...the horror..." (Kurtz, from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now)

In the novella Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad's tells a two-dimensional tale of an expedition into the "heart" of the Congo River where Marlow, the main character, undertakes a journey because he wanted to do something, to have an experience, to gain some kind of enlightenment. The further he travels to the inside or the nearer he comes to the core, the more evil and despicable the life and people he sees and meets become. He experiences the beastly, untamed animal world of these people and as he reaches the "heart" of the river, humanity and moral ground are gone. This realisation of  how raw,  how brutal and how brittle life really is, this is the horror expressed in this novella. Now comparing Heart of Darkness with Life of Pi we can see the exact same things, the exact same horror. It all starts off with the killing of the zebra. The hyena eats the zebra while it is still alive. Further on in the novel Pi starts the disgusting, cruel and brutal killing methods and at the end even cannibalism is introduced tp the story. There is a constant increase in how brutal, beastly and untamed the actions and events become. Summing up the novel, it clearly shows that Pi also lost his humanity and his innocence and so the book or rather the story lost its humanity too. The quote "Oh the horror...the horror" (Kurtz, from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now) describes this enlightenment the best. It is what you are thinking, it is pure horror.