Life of Pi, the story of Yann Martel begins with a religious boy who has two distinct personalities and one of them is symbolized by the character of Richard Parker. Richard Parker is depicted as a tiger to convey Pi's saving side and to display the dual nature of humanity. In addition to the fact that Pi has two contradictory personalities, the "Id" article presents Freudian psychoanalytic theory in which explains "the three agents of the human personality" (Id). To conclude, through the use of the article "Id" and Martel's use of imagery to represent Richard Parker as Pi's other personality, we can see both how humans can have personalities conflicts and how Pi has a conflicted personality. Likewise, Martel's use of ambiguous imagery validates how Richard Parker early in the book will be the survival side of Pi. When Richard Parker was first introduced in a black and white photo, Martel gives Richard Parker an ambiguous appearance by giving the animal a human name and saying "Richard Parker, can you believe what happened to us" (Martel 97). Providing a human image to the reader's mind early on means that Richard Parker is in fact a human, a human being that we as readers want to "extract personality from appearance" (Martel 87), but appearance from which Martel wants people to extract is Pi. Because Pi has this survival side that he doesn't need at the time and that's why Richard Parker is not described in detail so that people know from the beginning that Pi has another side to himself. Alternatively, when stuck on the boat with this tiger, Pi begins to distance himself, because of the overwhelming side of himself that makes him say "Let go, I don't want you here" (Ma. ..... middle of paper ...... and have my territory "carved out" (Martel 202) because Pi has realized what he has become and how he can't do anything about it. Thus, Pi becomes blind. about the fact that he can't see anything through his eyes, but the fact that he is looking through Richard Parker's eyes Finally, until the end of the book, Martel uses images to conclude that Pi still has. Richard Parker, but does not need him Until the end of the book, Pi comes across a seaweed island that is full of food. While exploring the island and getting used to it, Richard Parker. would have been “killed beyond his needs” (Martel 269 watches himself be this beast) As the days pass, Richard Parker fills his stomach with everything he can eat to ensure that Pi will live, because Pi himself mainly eats seaweed to regain his morals..