Life of Pi Summary
Piscine Molitor Patel (Pi) is a sixteen-year-old South Indian boy who lives in Pondicherry where his father runs a zoo. However, due to a government upheaval, their family decided to close the zoo and move to Canada. Pi, his mother, father and brother boarded the Tsimtsum together with their zoo animals. Unfortunately, the Tsimtsum sank and Pi was the only human who made it onto the lifeboat and survived. The lifeboat also contained a hyena, a zebra, Orange Juice the orangutan and Richard Park the tiger. One day, the hyena kills the zebra and the orangutan but the tiger was able to kill the hyena, leaving only the tiger and Pi on the lifeboat. Pi was afraid that the tiger might eat him so he kept distance from the animal, but then he realized that he should tame it so that he can assert his authority towards the tiger. Pi succeeded in taming the tiger. In their journey, the two faces man...