There are several allegories in this fine novel. One is the way that the flesh-eating island is willing to consume Pi and everyone/everything else. This is a thinly disguised allegory for the bloody violence of nature. Pi is both literally lost at sea and metaphorically lost at sea; every literal adventure and challenge is also a spiritual one. Finally, the encounter near the end, when Pi is blind, represents how fully he's lost his sight (reason, insight), and how little it serves him in these crazy lands.
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