But we see it's shape is that of a sarcophagus, or mummy, or dead man.
The thousands of meercats represent the life-giving flesh of the island. But he needed to tame it to keep himself alive. He "needed the tiger in order to survive". We also know that Pi coexisted with the tiger, as though Pi and the tiger are not one & the same - demonstrating Pi's inner struggle - peaceful vegetarian vs killer/carnivore/(cannibal). We know that Pi (tiger) killed (and possibly ate) the cook (hyena). OK, assuming the 2nd story is the true one, then we analyze the symbolism in the first story and accept the assignment of the animals to people given by the author/narrator, which concludes with ".and you are the tiger." The carnivorous island is the carnivorous (cannibalistic) cook. I'm having trouble fitting all the pieces together, and I could be wrong about the whole thing. I think this could mean that, having lost his faith, he is free to take nourishment (and knowledge?) from his surroundings while he's awake but when he's asleep at night, he is unprotected.Īlso, do you think there is a reason why the island looks like a man lying on his back? Pi and Richard Parker both find food and nourishment on the island, but what the island gives them during the day, it takes away at night. They then drift overnight to the carnivorous island. Pi's boat is caught in a storm and the scene ends with Pi screaming (at God?) "I lost my family, my everything. I think it might symbolize Pi's lack of faith. This leads me to believe that the Island, like the animals from the original story, is a symbol for something. It's made clear at the end of the film that the Japanese insurance agents think it's highly unlikely that the island exists, which is exactly what they think about Pi's original story. What I haven't understood is the significance of the carnivorous island that Pi encounters on his journey. This is the first instance where Pi replaces the traumatizing, believable details from his story with euphemistic symbols. In the end, we're told that the Zebra symbolizes the sailor, the Orangutan his mother, the Hyena is the brutish cook and Richard Parker the Bengal Tiger is Pi himself. Pi, understandably, replaces traumatizing details from the story of his survival to construct an alternate story which is full of unbelievable detail but is essentially the same.
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