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NotStan said:
trasharmdsister12 said:

  I read that book 6 years ago for an English project. I remember wondering the same thing about the end. I guess it was left open for you to choose and I don't think there really is a right answer. I'd go with the animal story though because tigers are cool.


I think the latter is more pessimstic and dark - although can be related as more realistic, I personally am getting an irking that it's actually the latter that is the more correct account, tiger being the metaphor for Pi's savage alternative - the way he tamed it near the end and the way that it unleashed when the orangutan was killed by the hyena - in which case depicts the killing of his mother by the chef, after which he himself kills the hyena - chef. Therefore only him and his savage nature left on that boat by themselves.

Bingo!



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