Answer and explanation:
The novel's narrator in order to help him recover from his sadness and gloom tells him that he is the owner of his life, and this resonates to him and makes him question himself about certain things. The animal that pi chooses to study for the thesis is a sloth and he chooses this animal because it has a calm and quiet temperament.
The most prevalent subject was "Everyday Life" because this is what the realist era mainly focused on
