The lesson his father wants to communicate is pretty simply: Animals, especially tigers, are not your friends. Humans are more dangerous than animals because for one, they're cruel, neurotic creatures, but also because human beings project "cuddly" or "cute" traits onto really vicious beasts. Like tigers. Pi launches into the story of his father's lesson. One Sunday morning, Pi's father calls Pi and Ravi over to him.
He wants to teach them a lesson that could one day save their lives. This is probably baffling for an eight-year-old child. Pi's father takes him and Ravi to see Mahisha, their pound Bengal tiger. Pi's father has the boys identify the animal. Yes, it's a tiger. Download this LitChart! Teachers and parents! Struggling with distance learning?
Our Teacher Edition on Life of Pi can help. Themes All Themes. Symbols All Symbols. Theme Wheel. Everything you need for every book you read. The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Life of Pi , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Pi says animals escape from something — not to something. They do not want to leave the known for the unknown.
Once an escaped animal finds a safe spot, it is only dangerous to that which comes between it and safety. In Chapter 11, Pi proves his point that escaped animals are not aggressive. He talks about an escaped black leopard who survived for two months outside of Zurich without hurting anyone.
Chapter 11 ends with Pi saying something confusing that the reader will have to figure out in later chapters. In the middle of a tropical Mexican jungle , imagine…What were they thinking?
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