Lilli’s Comments (group member since Dec 04, 2014)

Lilli’s comments from the Life of Pi group.

What do the the four animals on the lifeboat (the hyena, the zebra, the orangutan and the the tiger) represent in Life of Pi? I am positive that these characters symbolize something or someone from Pi's life but I'm not sure what or who.

Later on in Chapter 15 the narrator describes Pi's home (in a flash-forward to current time) as a temple, and observes many different holy symbols and images, from the Hindu Christian and Islam religions. Based on this evidence I would say that Pi is a mix of all three.