One day the boat approaches a low-lying island covered with trees. Pi assumes that the island is a mirage, but he decides to Pi finally believes that the island is not a hallucination, and he becomes delirious with joy. He eats some of the A few days later Pi decides to explore the island.
It seems large and rises to about sixty feet at its highest point. It consists A storm hits the island while he is ashore, but the island absorbs all the waves with barely a tremor Pi finds something sinister about the situation and wonders more about the nature of the island. He finds his answer days later, when he is exploring the forest. Pi begins to understand the awful truth about the island , and he tests his theory that night.
He drops one of the meerkats from the Pi realizes that the island is carnivorous. The algae becomes acidic and deadly at night, digesting the ocean fish it The next morning Pi resolves to leave the algae island. He would prefer to die searching for land and other humans instead of living a Okamoto responds to this by challenging the existence of the algae island. Cite This Page. Home About Story Contact Help. At night, however, the meerkats flee to the trees and Richard Parker to the lifeboat.
He sees that the water around the island is filled with fluorescent jelly fish. Pi finds a human tooth inside a flower. He decides the island is carnivorous and decides to leave with the tiger in their boat.
Castello Aragonese is a small island which really exists in the Tyrrhenian Sea near Naples. Bubbles of carbon dioxide rise from volcanic vents on the seafloor and dissolve to form high concentrations of carbonic acid that make seawater corrosive. Like the floating island Pi and Richard Parker discover, the island of Castello Aragonese creates beds of vivid green sea grass and sustains swarms of translucent jellyfish and algae.
Yet no other life survives in its waters. The island appears to be a perfect place—a utopia—but its ideal appearance masks a dark side that makes it a dystopia. Note also that the island at first seems like a biblical Eden, without any vermin, disease, or unhappiness.
The Christ metaphor is very apparent in this chapter. When Pi first arrives at the island, he climbs from the lifeboat into water but discovers that he does not sink as he walks but rather is buoyed by the plants and roots just below the surface. He literally walks on water. Pi also indicates that on the island he returns to life.
It is a sort of resurrection for him, though on this dystopian island it proves false.
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