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CHAPTER SUMMARIES AND NOTES


CHAPTER 93


Summary

Pi's resources are exhausted. He has nothing left to draw upon. At his absolute lowest, he seeks......

Notes

Pi has no reason to be alive. After intermittent cycles of faith and loss of conviction, he .......


CHAPTER 94


Summary

The lifeboat is precariously washed ashore in Mexico. Pi clambers over the side of the lifeboat into the surf. Richard Parker stumbles across the beach into the jungle and disappears without looking back. Without the tiger, Pi feels orphaned, but realizes he is not as.........

Notes

Ironically, this chapter is not about God as the previous chapter implied, but about landfall. It is about how Pi's story may.........


PART THREE - Benito Juarez Infirmary, Tomatlan, Mexico


CHAPTER 95


Summary

The author's voice is back, explaining the round about way Mr. Okamoto and Mr. Chiba of the Maritime Department in the Japanese Ministry of Transport reach Tomatlan. They mistakenly travel by way of Tomatan, fifteen hundred kilometers, a ferry boat ride, and a.........

Notes

The author already mentioned Mr. Okamoto in the acknowledgements at the end of the Author's Note. Here the reader finds out who.......


CHAPTER 96


Summary

The Japanese men introduce themselves to Pi and explain that they want information about the sinking of the Tsimtsum. They speak to.......

Notes

Mr. Chiba addresses Mr. Okamoto as Okamoto-san, a term of respect, indicating that Chiba is an underling. Okamoto is a........


CHAPTER 97


Summary

The story.

Notes

The survivor Pi tells the same story to the Japanese men that the adult Pi told the author.

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