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
The narrative switches to the author’s point of view, and he describes the adult Pi as a small, gray-haired, middle-aged man. He wears a winter coat in the fall and speaks quickly and expressively.
These sections remind us of the book’s “nonfiction” framework and also introduce the adult Pi even as we learn the events of his youth.
Themes
