![]() All these creatures, including Pi, are packed into a twenty-six-foot-long lifeboat. No one survives except Pi and a menagerie of animals: a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan, and a Bengal tiger. Tragedy strikes and the ship sinks halfway to the Midway Atoll. All of Part 2 takes place at sea, but without many of the characters we met in Part 1. They board, along with some of the animals they're selling to North American zoos, a Japanese cargo ship. They sell most of the animals and pack up their belongings. Indira Gandhi, institutes martial law (this is in the mid-1970's – see "Setting" for more). Things, however, aren't so joyful in India. He's inquisitive, joyful, and an all-around wonder of a human being. He's a Hindu from birth then at fourteen he adds Catholicism to his repertoire at fifteen he adds Islam. But zoology is only one of Pi's passions: he also loves religion. His father owns a zoo and Pi spends a lot of his time thinking about animals: after all, they're always around. Part 1 details Pi's childhood in Pondicherry, India. What we read, then, in Part 1 and Part 2 is Pi's voice as the author has written it.Īnd then, without further ado, we launch into Pi's story. We should note one point of complexity: the author admits any mistakes in the narrative are due to him and not Pi, since he's presumably put together Pi's story from interviews, notes, and Pi's diary. The book doesn't begin with Pi, but with an "Author's Note." We learn how the "author" (who shares some of Yann Martel's biography) found Pi's story. So we'll take you through the main events in a tad more detail-but remember much of the novel happens through digression and in Pi's meditations sprinkled throughout the novel. ![]() ![]() Okay, maybe that's a little too simplistic. Though it raises complex philosophical and religious questions, Life of Pi's plot is almost ridiculously easy to summarize: dude gets stuck on a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific ocean with a tiger, thinks about God. ![]()
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