Animals = Humans
As Martel has stated in one interview, he pushes his readers to make a
leap of faith as the novel's events get more and more unlikely. (Check out the interview here.)
We have to make a leap of fa...
The Algae Island
The algae island might be the second weirdest part of the book. (Second, maybe, only to Pi's conversation with the blind Frenchman.) It's an island made entirely of seaweed, full of meerkats and fr...
The Spiritual Journey; the Religious Stuff
We've already bombarded you with the idea that nothing in Life of Pi is straightforward allegory. And the goes for Pi's ordeal on the Pacific. There's a lot of religious symbolism, and the whole de...