Themes.

Throughout the novel, "Life of Pi" there where many different themes involved. These themes include: religion, man and the natural world, and suffering. Religion is portrayed in this novel as, "a defense of religion". This is because we see a protagonist who believes in zoology as well as religion which are two contradicting theories. As well as this explain we see a boy who is Muslim, Christian and Hindu - all at the same time. This novel shows the common spiritually grounds behind all three of these religions and is able to work harmoniously with each other. The next theme we see Yan bring out in this novel is "man and the natural world". This is shown in a strong way how we see the crossing of these two kingdoms when we see humans becoming more animalistic and we see animals showing more human qualities. A third theme we see is "suffering". Suffering in this novel brings out the best and the worst in all the characters. We see  suffering drive the characters to care for each other when they could have killed them in many different occasions, and then we see the suffering make some characters resort to murder and cannibalism. An example of this is when Pi catches the Dorado and when he had murdered it with the hatchet he says, "I felt like I was beating a rainbow to death". Throughout this story these are the three main themes portrayed and how they where showed throughout the story.