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Chapter 9
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Life of Pi, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Survival
Religion and Faith
Storytelling
Boundaries
Summary
Analysis
Pi admits that there are still some animals who escape or try to escape from zoos. He says that this is usually the result of bad care or the animal experiencing sudden stress, especially if it feels that something is invading its territory. Pi curses the bad zookeepers whose animals want to escape, saying that they give all zoos a bad name.
Pi’s lament of bad zookeeping prefigures his lament of bad religious practitioners – bad zookeepers, like narrow-minded, hateful religious people, give zoology and religion bad names, making people think that both zoos and religion restrict freedom.
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