The detail illustrates the confusion aboard the ship. Pi is trying to understand what is happening and dismisses the loose animals “as illusion crafted by rain and shadow”; however, he realizes the sights are real when a wild ox “[explodes] out of the rain and [thunders] by me.” Pi’s family always keeps the animals in their
The detail illustrates the confusion aboard the ship. Pi is trying to understand what is happening and dismisses the loose animals “as illusion crafted by rain and shadow”; however, he realizes the sights are real when a wild ox “[explodes] out of the rain and [thunders] by me.” Pi’s family always keeps the animals in their