Chapter 91 Quotes Life Of Pi

Chapter 91 demonstrates the way that humans are not so far from the rest of the animal kingdom. Richard Parker, who symbolizes Pi’s primal instincts, had just killed a man. Pi, representing the civilized side of himself, felt sorry for the man, but he still stole all of his possessions, used his body as fish bait, and ate part of the man. He says “I will further confess that driven by the extremity of my need and the madness to which it pushed me, I ate some of [the man’s] flesh.” (284). This cannibalism ties to the other mentions of cannibalism in the book: when Pi describes how horrid hyenas are, and when Pi tells the true story where the cook ate the sailor. These two other events were really only one event because the hyena represents