Life of Pi. Summaries of chapters 91 to 94. Chapter 91. Pi explores the Frenchman's boat. Pi calls it his brother's boat. Pi discovers that the man had lied to him. Pi finds some food and some water on the boat. Pi eats and drinks. Then Pi returns to his own lifeboat and releases the Frenchman's. When Pi had cried, his eyes had improved. Pi begins rinsing his eyes with sea water regularly. Within two days, his vision returns. The first thing that Pi sees is the butchered, dismembered body of the Frenchman. Since the tiger had eaten the face, Pi does not know who Richard Parker's victim is. Pi says the man's empty and open torso looks like the lifeboat. Pi takes one of the arms to use pieces of for bait. Pi eats some of the pieces, but only until he catches a fish. Pi says he prays for the dead Frenchmen every day. Chapter 92. Pi makes a botanical discovery that he says many will not believe. He sees trees with pale bark and green leaves on a lowlying island. At first, Pi doesn't believe his eyes. Pi looks at the island and thinks it is an illusion. There is no soil, just tubular vegetation and trees. Pi thinks that if he closes his eyelids, they will be like lumberjacks and cut down the trees. He is surprised when he opens his eyes that he can still see the trees. Pi loves the color green after only seeing blue. He says it is the color of Islam. Pi remembers that the lifeboats manual said he would only know land if his foot touched it. Pi slowly puts his foot into the water and steps down on rubbery but solid and fragrant vegetation. My God. My God. Richard Parker. Land. Land. We are saved. Pi reaches down and pulls up this strange tubular seaweed. It had an inner and an outer tube. The outer tube was edible, sugary, and delicious. Pi hurly pulled up the seaweed algae with both hands and ate and ate. Pi crawls to the shade of a tree. Pi's tree had gray green bark and cordate leaves. Cordate means heart-shaped. After a while, Richard Parker leaves the boat and heads inland. Pi ties up the boat and decides for safety he should spend the night in the lifeboat. During the night, Richard Parker returns and acts strangely, meowing and licking the pads of his feet. Pi wonders why the tiger has returned to the lifeboat. Pi doesn't think about it too much because his stomach is cramping painfully. Finally, Pi is able to defecate and has the best night's sleep since the sinking of the Tsum Tsum. The next day, Richard Parker does not want to leave the boat, but finally does in the middle of the morning. Pi spends the day getting his strength back and relearning how to walk on solid ground. Pi spends another night on the boat and is able to walk to his tree, falling many times. Pi uses his gaff to pull some leaves from the tree. He tries to eat some, but they are too bitter. The tiger, now much stronger, gallops back at sunset, scaring Pi into blowing his whistle. The tiger stops but is very upset. Surprisingly, Richard Parker jumps not at Pi but into the sea. Richard Parker swims to the lifeboat and pulls himself in. Each night, the tiger sleeps in the boat. One morning, Pi feels strong enough to explore the island. He goes inland and finds trees, ponds, and dural active during the day. Mircats everywhere. The mircats had no fear of pie. They continued their squeaking and barking. Then they jumped into a pond and began pulling out dead fish. Pi saw four ponds, all with dead dorado and other fish. Pi tasted the water. It was fresh, not salt water, so the saltwater fish had died. How had they gotten there? Pi took a long, refreshing bath. The algae had desalinated the water, and it was pure. The mircats had no idea what a predator was. Countless numbers of them were killed and eaten by Richard Parker. Pi discovers that weather affects the height and density of the island. Both are increased with heat and decreased with cool, rainy weather and high seas. Pi experiences a storm, but the island survives it well. It was like Gandhi. It did not resist. Pi does not understand the ecology of the island. Why are there only mircats, saltwater fish, trees, and algae? There are no other signs of life. No flies, worms, or freshwater fish. There is no soil. Pi sees that the trees are not rooted in the algae, but are part of it. Pi decides that the island is really a floating organism. Pi becomes afraid of Richard Parker, who is now healthy and is prowling the island to look for a mate. One day, Pi and the tiger almost run into each other as they are exploring. Pi says there are three fears that always remain for humans. Being startled by a sound, vertigo, and being advanced on by a killer. Three times, the tiger rears up as if to attack, but then backs away. Pi blows his whistle loudly for a long time. Pi decides it is time to be a circus animal trainer again. Pi knows that animals act only as a result of instinct or repetition. Using bits of mircats and his whistle, Pi retrains the omega tiger to see Pi as an alpha. Once Pi has trained the tiger to jump through a homemade hoop, he feels more comfortable. Pi decides though that he will sleep on the island in a tree just in case Richard Parker changes his routine of staying on the lifeboat at night. Pi makes a bed by using a net, blankets, a rope, and two branches. He is surprised at dusk when all of the mircats leave the ground and climb into the trees. Pi enjoyed sleeping with the mircats cuddling up to him. One night, they woke him up. He looked at the pond and saw a lot of dead fish floating up to the top of the water. The mircats made a lot of noise, but not one left the trees. The next morning, most of the fish were gone before the Mircats could get down to the pond. What had happened to all the fish? There had even been a dead shark. Pi finally discovered what happened to the fish when one day he saw a tree that appeared to have fruit. Later, Pi wished he had never climbed the tree and opened the fruit. If he had not, he could have lived on with the Mircats. The fruit, not really a fruit, just a ball of leaves, contained a human tooth. Pi opened more balls of leaves and found a human tooth in each. That night, he pushed a mircat to the ground and it squealled and ran back up the tree. Pi lowered himself to the ground with a rope, and when his feet touched the ground, they burned and Pi was in agony. Pi tried everything to ease his pain. He washed his feet with a bucket of water he kept hanging in the tree. He wiped off his feet with leaves. He even killed two mircats and washed his feet in blood. Pi thinks the island is carnivorous. During the day, the delicious algae attracts living creatures. At night, the algae turns acidic and consumes its prey. That is why the fish died, the mircat spent the night in trees. Richard Parker always returned to the lifeboat, and why there were human teeth in the leaf balls Pi had found in a tree. Someone besides Pi had found the island and had died there. Pi thinks about the other person, the one who had died on the island, consumed slowly by a tree, which apparently was also acidic, but needed more than one night to have any effect. Pi wonders how long it takes despair to kill someone. If the island gives you food, water, and shelter, but no hope for a normal life, what then? Pi asks how much stored up conversation died unsaid. Pi finds it unbearable that out of all the other person's hopes and dreams, only teeth are left. Pi decides to leave the island to search for other humans. He had been so happy to have had the companionship and conversation of the Frenchmen. He had been relieved to find the food, water, shelter, and mircats on the island. But Pi needed both physical comfort and spiritual fulfillment to truly live. Pi prepares to leave. He eats as much algae as he can. He fills the lifeboat with water, dead fish, and the flesh of mircats. He attaches a mass of algae to the boat with a rope. Pi waits for evening to come and for Richard Parker to return to the lifeboat, and then he pushes off and lets the currents take the boat away from the island. The algae turns acidic and eats through the rope. By morning, there is no sign of the island. Chapter 93. Pi lives, but he says the rest of this story is nothing but grief, ache, and endurance. Pi says that during low times, people need to reach out to God. During high times, people do not. Chapter 94. Pi reaches land, Mexico. He is almost too weak and tired to even be happy. It had been hard battling the surf with his sea anchors. He barely has enough strength to climb out of the boat. As Pi gathers his strength to climb out, Richard Parker jumps over him and disappears into the jungle without even looking back. Pi says, "Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared from my life. Pi now feels completely abandoned. No family, no tiger, no God. Yes, the beach sand is God's cheek, and he must be smiling." Some hours later, a man finds Pi. He goes and gets help. Several people, covering their mouths and noses, come and take Pi to a house where he is bathed and fed. Pi cried when he was taken from the beach, not with happiness, but because he was unable to say goodbye to Richard Parker. Pi says he needs order, that he does not like his own nickname because there's no goodbye in a never-ending number. Pi says it is important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Pi also wonders if it would be possible to tell his jumbled story in exactly 100 chapters. Pi wishes he could have thanked Richard Parker. He wishes he could warn him, "Watch out for man. He is not your friend." The next day, a policeman came and took Pi to a hospital. Pi says, "And there my story ends." Pi thanks the poor people who took him in and gave him food and clothes, the Mexican doctors and nurses, and the Mexican and Canadian officials who helped him get to Canada, where he lived with a foster mother and later attended the University of Toronto. Note, Martell's novel does not end here. Part three is going to make you think, wonder, and choose.