In Life of Pi, Pi Patel says the following about fear: "[F]ear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation... nestles in your
memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything... . So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to
shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don’t, if your fear becomes a
wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open
yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent
who defeated you" (Martel 161-162).
Think about this message. Please write a reflection of approximately two paragraphs on this quotation. What does Pi mean by telling people to "shine the light of words" on their fears? How can fear settle in memory "like a gangrene"? Do you agree or disagree with Pi?
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