![]() So Pi decides that he must tame Richard Parker. Eventually, however, life on the raft proves too exhausting, and Pi realizes that if Richard Parker gets hungry enough, he will swim to it and kill Pi. There is no land in sight and the ocean is shark-infested, so Pi builds a raft which he attaches to the lifeboat, to keep himself at a safer distance from Richard Parker. ![]() Pi is left alone on a lifeboat with an adult male tiger. The hyena kills and devours both the zebra and Orange Juice, before Richard Parker kills the hyena. Along with Pi, the lifeboat contains a hyena, a zebra, Orange Juice the orangutan, and Richard Parker the tiger. Pi, his mother, father, and brother Ravi all board the Tsimtsum along with the zoo’s animal inhabitants (who are on their way to be sold around the world).Īn unexplained event causes the Tsimtsum to sink, and Pi is the only human to make it onto the lifeboat and survive. Thanks to government upheaval that has long been distressing Pi’s father, the Patels decide to close the Pondicherry Zoo and move to Canada when Pi is sixteen. A precocious and intelligent boy, by the age of fifteen Pi-Hindu from an early age-has also adopted Christianity and Islam, and considers himself a pious devotee to all three religions. Pi, born Piscine Molitor Patel, grows up in the South Indian city of Pondicherry, where his father runs the zoo. ![]() Life of Pi tells the fantastical story of Pi Patel, a sixteen-year-old South Indian boy who survives at sea with a tiger for 227 days.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |