The algae island Pi comes across has great similarities to the Garden of Eden. The island comes across as sort of magical and non believable at first. When Pi was at a state where his body needed water and food or else he was going to lose all strength and die, is when his raft came upon this island. It had an ongoing supply of both sweet algae and fresh water, so Pi and Richard Parker could eat and drink as much food and water as they needed without having to converse it for the days to come. Along with the algae that Pi ate, the island had thousands of meerkats that Richard Parker acquired to. They both lived on the island for a longer time and soon gained all their strength back that they had lost from being at sea. Pi one day discovered something that changed his mind about the precious island; he discovered a fruit in the tree that turned out to be human teeth wrapped tightly in a ball of leaves. Along with this devastating discovery he found that the ground turned deathly acidic at night. Pi now wanted to leave. He didn’t want to die in a place that was unknown where no one had ever discovered; he wanted to exist and not be left ever unknown to the world. This island is very similar to the Garden of Eden. Like the island, the garden has a plentiful supply of food, and both can be eaten from as much as desired, excluding the exception of the tree of knowledge. The downfall to both the island and the garden is that they both have an evil aspect to them. At night, the island goes acidic, and in the garden, the serpent came in the form of evil persuading Eve to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge. In both situations the beings never return. God forbids Adam and Eve from returning to the Garden of Eden and Pi decides to leave the island as is it also a sign of evil.
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