Characters Changing and Evolving

The character that changed/evolved the most during the novel, "The Kite Runner" was the main character, "Piscine" (aka Pi). Pi changed drastically in many ways throughout the story. The main and most seen way in the story is the way he went from a animal loving little boy who could not harm a fly to a boy who was able to murder, skin and eat any animal possible that he got his hands on. There are many things that triggered this change in Pi. The main event that made this happen was the fact he was stuck on a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with little food/water/survival supplies and a bengal tiger. When Pi realizes that there is little to no food that he can eat to keep himself alive he turns to killing and eating fish of all kinds and sea turtles and eventually a human being. We see the change in Pi when he finally catches his first fly fish and it really bothers him that he has to kill it, it takes him many tries with bringing the hammer down to his head before he is able to truly kill it and eating it the first bit was just as hard for him. After his first encounter with the fish he is able to do this without worry and really turns into some kind of monster within himself. This is how the character, Pi changes and evolves throughout the story.