Parts Making A Reader Uncomfortable.

Throughout the novel, "Life Of Pi", there where a series of events that did make me a little uncomfortable reading at times. These parts were mostly when murder was taking place on the lifeboat. The passages where very detailed and vulgar. An example of this is, "He ripped the flesh of the man's frame and cracked his bones. The smell of blood filled my nose". There are many passages like this one that did make me cringe while reading them. Even though these parts where very disgusting to read it did help me get a very intense and good mental picture of the scenes while it was happening. More examples of these take place when Pi was explaining how he ate certain animals. He would explain that he ripped off certain parts of its body and cut and ripped different body parts off to get certain juices out. Also when Pi talks about how he kills different animals before he is able to eat them. These are all strong examples of how book made me uncomfortable but still made it all believable and was very well written.