How Would You Explain The Mongooses At The Lifeboat

Stupid little buhooookighay. ( maybe add scientific or physical truth or emotional) The story with the animals holds more truth because it shows Pi understands animal instinct and he is able to react accordingly, *Pi's memory, and physical and emotional evidence. This gives the readers a more realistic and easier way to understand the events in the novel. In the animal story Pi went to the island and that island was full of meerkats and Richard Parker ate many of them and cluttered the lifeboat with bones .When Pi was being interviewed by the Japanese men they suggested that the bones where mongoose bones from the zoo, according to Pi the mongoose were not sold. There were no meerkats at the zoo. "By the way, how would you explain the meerkat bones in the lifeboat?'' We had no meerkats at the zoo." The mongooses at the zoo did not sell. They stayed in India"(Martel 377-378)

However, when Pi went back down to his family's cabin, the stairwell was already flooded and he could not reach them. "I had gone down just one level when I saw water. Lots of water... Down there was where my family was"(129) Lastly Pi describes the rational story in one dull chapter, while the animal story spanned the entire novel. Pi did not have a lot of detail or explanation to describe the rational story. Pi spent a long time describing how he had trained Richard Parker to cooperate and understand their boundaries using the whistle, and urine. Pi's father was a zookeeper therefore it was possible for Pi to survive with the animals because he was raised learning about them.
"To those who ever find themselves in a predicament as I was in, I would recommend the following program:"(256) "The Pondicherry zoo was source of some pleasure and many headaches for Mr. Santosh Patel, founder, owner, director, head of a staff of fifty-three, and my father. To me, it was a paradise on