In Life of Pi, what does Pi lose when the Tsimtsum sinks? What did he gain?Besides the loss of his family and possessions,

Pi conflates divine intervention and meaning with the
creation of stories. For Pi, story-creating is part of his sense of divinity because it
is through this creative process that he is able to deal with all this loss. Thus,
story-creating is his salvation. This also makes sense why he can legitimately follow
multiple regions. To Pi, they are all creative versions of the same premise. And that
creativity is a property of the divine. It also conjures or connotes definitions of
Creation in the sense that life and the world were created by God and becomes a story.
Pi gained an ability to apply his religious beliefs for his own survival and a greater
understanding of how his beliefs shaped his life and personality. He also gained a sense
of self-reliance.

He lost his innocence. His naïve wonder
of the world is replaced by a mature, skeptical wonder. He was no longer a vegetarian.
He lost some dignity by eating animal feces and human flesh, but he gained humility. Pi
learns how to live with another species, so to speak. Pi sees that living with another
human can be like two different species of animals living together. Overall, his
experience on the raft confirms his inclination that religion and science are
interconnected. This experience taught him that humans are more similar to animals than
they are different. This is foreshadowed in Chapter 8 when Pi’s father has his sons
watch a tiger kill a goat. This lesson helps him deal with Richard Parker. If Pi had any
sense that humans were more rational or superior to animals, he may have lost some of
this certainty.