This book, like you promised Mrs.Leffler, would reveal itself all in the last chapter. Although the book I felt, never fully revealed its meaning in the carnivorous island I feel satisfied in the ending. The book adresses the sides of each human, the moral and religious side, as well as the animalistic side. I was most suprised to find that Richard Parker was Pi himself. In some ways it did click, after all it was his animalistic instincts that kept him alive on the boat, but it was also the humane side that sparked the will to live by igniting the internal struggle. Without the animalistic side, there is no doubt that Pi would not have survived, but even so I found the most important illustration was that of Pi training his tiger into doing tricks. It was quite a while on the boat before he could train much of anything into effect but the act was symbolic of the training of instincts. What first appeared to be simply a beautiful and strange story was so much more. I was dumbfounded as Pi explained his story to the Japanese and realized that every event in the story was symbolic of his struggles on the ship, externally and internally. This was the best use of symbolism that I have ever seen and thoroughly enjoyed the book.