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 pores over the survival manual, trying to decipher its advice about navigation, but he knows nothing about stars or currents. Pi eventually gives up, recognizing that he has no way to propel or steer the lifeboat anyway. Later he would learn that he drifted along the “Pacific equatorial counter-current.”
