Pi's family sells off the zoo animals, mostly to zoos in America. Pi feels as though he and Ravi are zoo animals being shipped off to Canada. Because of extensive regulations and paperwork, the preparations take over a year. This at.......

Notes

Pi prepares the reader for a journey. At this point it seems as though it will be a geographic journey, traveling to.....

CHAPTER 35

Summary

Pi's family leaves on June 21, 1977. Mother is especially sad to leave the beautiful familiarity of India. They board the ......

Notes

This is the last beautiful description of India. The family leaves on a ship that bears the name of a Kabbalist concept from the cosmogony of Isaac Luria (who was first mentioned in Chapter 1). The word tsimtsum or zimzum means contraction or.......

CHAPTER 36

Summary

The author arrives a little early to Pi's house and at first sees no one. At that moment, Pi's teenage son runs out........

Notes

The reader now has the complete picture of the adult Pi's life. He seems to be living happily ever after, as confirmed by the.........

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