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Life of Pi | Summary and Analysis: Part Two—The Pacific Ocean—Chapters 88-94

Chapter 88:
Summary
The lifeboat runs into some floating trash, and Pi finds a rotted lamb in a floating refrigerator. He pulls a corked bottle from the trash, puts a message in it, and launches it in the water.

Analysis
Given Pi's powerful religious leanings, the lamb should be taken as symbolic. After becoming a killer as he has, Pi is no longer innocent (as a lamb), but rotten.

Chapter 89:
Summary
Pi describes how everything suffered on the lifeboat from...




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