The correct answer is B.
When Pi tells the second, more brutal account of what happened, the reader understands how important storytelling is to Pi and how changing the events into a story helped him survive. Furthermore, we can see how Pi had a will to live even in the face of certain death.
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The writers who most likely influenced our Founding Fathers are Locke and Voltaire, as well as Spinoza and Rousseau.
These writers were very political in nature, and their ideas about a free country resonated with the Founding Fathers when they wanted to establish a liberated America based on the principles of democracy and natural freedoms, as well as basic and more advanced human rights.