

Pi trains Richard Parker to accept him in the boat, and realizes that caring for the tiger is also helping keep himself alive. One night, a humpback whale comes too close to the boat, destroying the raft and its supplies. When the tiger jumps into the sea to hunt for fish and then comes threateningly towards Pi, Pi considers letting him drown, but ultimately helps him back into the boat.
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Despite his moral code against killing, he begins fishing, enabling him to sustain the tiger as well. Pi fashions a small tethered raft from flotation vests to which he retreats for safety from Richard Parker. Richard Parker emerges from under the tarpaulin, killing the hyena before retreating back to cover for several days. The hyena kills the zebra and later the orangutan. A spotted hyena emerges from under a tarpaulin covering half of the lifeboat and snaps at Pi, forcing him to retreat to the end of the boat. Pi briefly sees what appears to be a survivor, but it turns out to be Richard Parker.Īfter the storm, Pi awakens in the lifeboat with the zebra and is joined by a resourceful orangutan. The ship sinks into the Mariana Trench, drowning his family. A freed zebra jumps onto the boat with him, breaking its leg. He tries to find his family, but a crewman throws him into a lifeboat. During a storm, the ship founders while Pi is on deck. The family books passage with the animals on a Japanese freighter. When Pi is 16, his father announces that they must move to Canada, where he intends to settle and sell the animals.


After Pi gets dangerously close to Richard Parker, his father forces him to witness the tiger killing a goat. Pi's family owns a zoo, and Pi takes interest in the animals, especially a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. His mother supports his desire to grow, but his rationalist father tries to secularize him. He is raised in a Hindu family, but at 12 years old, he is introduced to Christianity and then Islam, and decides to follow all three religions as he "just wants to love God". In secondary school in Pondicherry, he adopts the name " Pi" (the Greek letter, π) to avoid the sound-alike nickname "Pissing Patel". Pi's father names him Piscine Molitor Patel after the swimming pool in France. Pi tells the writer the following story about his life: The writer has been told that Pi's life story would be a good subject for a book. In Canada, a young writer meets Pi Patel.
