Themes- Meghan

SURVIVAL


* There are many underlying themes in the "Life of Pi" while others are more obvious. The most important theme I believe has to with survival and how a person must want/ need the will to survive. The novel plays out to have a very negative plot - when Pi's family dies and he is stranded on life boat for 227 days, this to many people would seem to be the end of life but not for Pi. Pi and Richard Parker actively fight together against their doomed fate of death and in the end are able to survive. - Pi was a vegetarian and he must now eat fish to survive.

Animals on the life boat try to fight off each other till their very last breath and Martel shows this by talking in depth about their terrible, sad deaths.
- What one must do in order to survive

-What seems to be acceptable in the case of life vs. death in order to survive in the dangerous world.

**Another theme that goes away from Religion, music , poetry and and philosphy is that humans are not better than animals.
- animals in the zoo are as "free" as the animals in the wild.
-terrioty it calls home- animals that escape the zoo stay near