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Through Pi’s relationships with the animals throughout the story, innocence and experience alongside a developed theme of what it means to be human is displayed, all of which relates to the poems The Lamb and The Tyger.

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“The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment.” (Martel 4)

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First experience with innocence and experience.

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First experience with innocence and experience.

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With sudden ease the trap door slid open. Silence fell again, except for the bleating and the click-click of the goat’s hooves against the floor. A streak of black and orange flowed from one cage to the next.” (Martel 44)

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Pi's first lesson learned on dangerous animals.

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Pi's first lesson learned on dangerous animals.

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“Don’t think they are harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. Every animal is ferocious and dangerous.” (Martel 47)

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Richard Parker's first show of innocence.

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Richard Parker's first show of innocence.

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“He looked panic stricken. He started swimming my way. The water was shifting wildly. He looked small and helpless.” (Martel 121)

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The other animals on the raft show their experience.

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The other animals on the raft show their experience.

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“She thumped the beast on the head. It was something shocking. It made my heart melt with love and admiration and fear.” (Martel 162)

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Orange Juice shows humanlike characteristics.

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Orange Juice shows humanlike characteristics.

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“Her eyes expressed fear in such a humanlike way.” (Martel 164)

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“Richard Parker’s amber eyes met mine, the stare was intense, cold and unflinching, not flighty or friendly, and spoke of self-possession on the point of exploding with rage.” (Martel 191)

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Richard Parker's questioning huff similar top the Lamb.

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Richard Parker's questioning huff similar top the Lamb.

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“Richard Parker did it again, this time with a rolling of the head. He looked exactly as if he was asking me a question.” (Martel 206)

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Flying fish show experience in Richard Parker.

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Flying fish show experience in Richard Parker.

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“It was a dazzling display of might and speed. Actually, it was not so much the speed that was impressive as the pure animal confidence, the total absorption of the moment.” (Martel 230)

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“The dorado did a most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash in all kinds of colours in rapid succession.” (Martel 234)

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“The hull of the lifeboat invited life too, in the form of small gooseneck barnacles.” (Martel 250)

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Richard Parker has a lack of experience with human creations.

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Richard Parker has a lack of experience with human creations.

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“Richard Parker always froze when a hand flare hissed to life. His eyes, round pupils the size of pinpricks, fixed on the light steadily.” (Martel 252)

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Pi's experience with survival grows whilst he is on the raft.

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Pi's experience with survival grows whilst he is on the raft.

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“Turtle shells are very handy. I couldn’t have done without them. … I used the shells to protect myself from the sun.” (Martel 269)

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Richard Parker displays innocence and experience at the same time while battling the shark.

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Richard Parker displays innocence and experience at the same time while battling the shark.

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“Richard Parker turned and started clawing the shark’s head with his free front paw and biting with his jaws, while his rear legs began tearing at its stomach and back.” (Martel 278)

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Pi finally has the experience of being with Richard Parker and stands up to him.

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Pi finally has the experience of being with Richard Parker and stands up to him.

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“I looked Richard Parker dead in the eyes. Suddenly his brute strength only meant moral weakness.”(Martel 280)

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Richard Parker is one of the novel's most important examples of innocence and experience shown throughout the course of the novel. He constantly battles with his deep understanding of animalistic ideals: “Richard Parker turned and started clawing… his rear legs began tearing at its stomach and back” (Martel 278). Richard Parker, a powerful beast trained in hunting, uses his entire body clawing, biting, and kicking all at the same time. Though he has incredible power he does not understand the ocean nearly as much as Pi, someone who has been taught the basic functions of the world, does. Richard Parker is unaware while fighting the shark that it cannot hear him. During the fight with the mako, Richard Parker “opened his mouth wide and full-out roared” (Martel 277), rattling Pi's bones as it was released. This is often used as an intimidation strategy for big cats during their hunts; but, in this case the shark is “deaf, conventionally speaking”(Martel 277) meaning the mako “perceived only a dull vibration”(Martel 278). Richard Parker’s use of a roar as an intimidation tactic is unhelpful due to the deafness of a shark. The lack of knowledge of ocean animals Richard Parker displays is expected but also shows the innocence that he holds to much of the outside world.