![]() ![]() Pi spends weeks on the island recuperating. The meerkats eat the scraps as the pools become fresh in the daylight. Pi further discovers that at night, the pools becoming acidic and draw in fish from the sea who die there. He also discovers that due to a complete absence of predators, the meerkats fear nothing, even though Richard Parker is parading through them devouring all he can reach. He discovers that the algae desalinizes the sea water in the pools. Pi finds that the algae is edible, with a sweet outer layer and a salty inner core. There is zero animal life on the island with one glaring exception: it is overrun with meerkats. ![]() Within the algae mass are deep pools of fresh water. It is a gigantic mass of vegetation, an algae that grows without soil, with trees that grow from the algae. The island, however, is far from ordinary. When he is nearly dead from starvation, Pi happens upon a island. Pi’s ordeal at sea culminates with what is by far the most bizarre passage in the novel, though one that reconciles all three of the major themes.
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