I.

About the book

The story is all about the Life of Pi real name is Piscine molitor Patel by his parents. He a attended
The University of Toronto and took a bachelor’s degree his major is religious study and zoology his
fourth year thesis for religious studies concerned cerntain of the cosmogony theory of isaac Luria and
the gratest sixteenth- century kabbalist from safed. At St mchaels college four years he was being top I
got every possible student award from the Department of Zoology. I was named after a swimming pool
quite peculiar considering my parents never took to water. One of my father earliest business contact
was Francisadirubasamy. He became a good friend to my family . He changes his name to Pi when he
begins secondary school, he saw me and flash evil genius lit up his dull mind. He raised his arms ,
pointed at me and shouted pissing pastel everyone was laughing. Before moving to Pondicherry, father
ran a large hotel in madras. An abiding interest in animals led him to zoo business. The Pondicherry zoo
was the source of some pleasure and many headaches for Mr. Satish Patel, founder, owner, director,
head of a staff of fifty three and my father. After that pi study in University of Toronto and studied
zoology. Especially the animals who is a royal Bengal Tiger named Richard parker who teach him the
reality of tiger nature as a carnivore, Pi’s father force him to witness it killing a goat and also he is raised
in Hindu. he is introduced to Christianity and then Islam and starts to follow those three religions. When
pi’s is 16 years old he experience first love ,after a long run of life his father decide to close the zoo and
move his family to Canada , transferring the animals slowly then they book a passage with their animals
to be sold in north America on a Japanese . The ship encounters heavy storm and begins to sink while pi
is on the deck to see what’s happening he tries to find his family, but a crew member throw him a life
vest and he wants to save his mother and also the to save the animals caged in the first deck of the ship
but the crew member doesn’t want him to go through. Together with the Zebra they fall along the life
boat and after the tragedy.

Pi see animals that is on the water and including Richard Parker and he begins to rescue it. He
watches as the ship sink and he never know what is the cause of it. After the storm, Pi finds him self in
the life boat with an injured zebra and joined by an orangutan, hyena appear under the boat both and
before long begins to attack and eat the injured zebra and kill it. The hyena also have a wounds on
orangutan fight and suddenly the tiger which is Richard parker also appear under the boat and kill the
hyena.
Pi find emergency food and a water in boat and build a small raft to put some distance from the tiger. Pi
begins fishing, he also collect rain water for both to drink. At some point he help the desperate tiger
climb back into the boat after it had jumped to hunt fish. After how many days he has no longer a
supply and also he realizes that he mno longer live on the tiny boat and trains the tiger which is Richard
Parker to accept him in the boat and also he realize that caring for the tiger is keep him alive. After
weeks in the sea pi and the tiger eat and drink but in the night it change environment and the water
turn into somehow acid and pi find a human tooth inside the plant are carnivorous and they lived and
they reaches in the Mexico and back on land pi is on the sea and he has no power tiger stops at the
middle of the jungle and pi expects that the tiger will turn toward him. But instead he see in jungle for a
while and begins to weep his eyes crying because he never saw Richard parker coming back to him as he
was rescued by the people who happened to be their. They bring Pi to the hospital to aid his peeling skin
and after those encounter the Japanese freighter hear about the incident and the Japanese freighter
who owns the ship they tell with full details on what happened why the ship sank.

Awards

Yann Martel won a number of literary prize, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize fiction
and 2002 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature 2014 Coventry Inspiration book award, 2004
Deutscher Buencherpreis, 2003 Booked Prize ( South Africa) 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize(Eurasia
Region, best book)2002,Man Booker Prize for Fiction, Governor General’s Literary Award for
fiction(Canada) 1996 chapter/book in Canada First novel award(Canada) and lastly 1993 Journey prize(
Canada)

II. About the author

As stated by Steven S. from the website (Encyclopaedia Britannica), Yann Martel, (born June 25,
1963, Salamanca, Spain), Canadian author best known for Life of Pi (2001), the story of the eponymous
Indian teenager adrift at sea, after a shipwreck, in a lifeboat shared with a Bengal tiger.

The son of peripatetic Canadian parents—his father was a diplomat as well as an accomplished
poet—Martel lived in such countries as Spain, Costa Rica, France, Mexico, and the United States. He
completed his secondary education in Canada at Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario (1979–81),
and continued his studies at Trent University (1981–84; 1986–87) and Concordia University (1984–85),
earning a B.A. in philosophy. Martel established himself as a writer with the publication of The Facts
Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and Other Stories (1993), followed by his first novel, Self (1996), both
of which introduced consistent thematic concerns in his fiction, including the complexities of illness,
sexuality and identity, death and dying, and the burden of grief and loss.

In 2001 Martel received international acclaim for Life of Pi, which features elements of fable,
fantasy, and magic realism. The book was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize and was published in
more than 30 languages. It later was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film (2012) directed by
Ang Lee. Propelled by the success of Life of Pi, in 2010 Martel published Beatrice and Virgil, an
allegorical adventure meant as a literary representation of the Holocaust in which animals—a donkey
and a monkey, albeit stuffed and on display in a taxidermist’s shop—converse and interact with human
characters. Although the work was met with mixed reviews, Martel effectively utilized animals as
vehicles for telling the story, projecting them with human qualities, so “the animal is both itself and
something else, a kind of canvas.” He repeated that approach—this time featuring a chimpanzee—in
The High Mountains of Portugal (2016), an imaginative foray into the mysteries of existence composed
of a trio of interlocking novellas, set decades apart, that each serve to confirm the importance of religion
and to emphasize the author’s perspective on the relationship between storytelling and faith: “I’ve
always been struck how…religion is profoundly narrative. All religions convey stories and I think that
speaks to who we are as a species.”

III .Discussion

1. Thesis statement

In “Life of Pi” written by Yann Martel, Pi uses his faith and hope to survive through his tragedy but
because he is all alone at sea he needs a physical representation of his faith and hope to keep him going
by the attribution of Richard Parker.

Chapter 57

“It was Richard Parker who calmed me down. It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me
witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.” –
Pi
“I had to tame him. It was at that moment that I realized this necessity. It was not a question of him or
me, but of him and me. We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat. We would live—or we
would die—together. He might be killed in an accident, or he could die shortly of natural causes, but it
would be foolish to count on such an eventuality. More likely the worst would happen: the simple
passage of time, in which his animal toughness would easily outlast my human frailty. Only if I tamed
him could I possibly trick him into dying first, if we had to come to that sorry business. But there’s more
to it. I will come clean. I will tell you a secret: a part of me was glad about Richard Parker. A part of me
did not want Richard Parker to die at all, because if he died I would be left alone with despair, a foe even
more formidable than a tiger. If I still had the will to live, it was thanks to Richard Parker. He kept me
from thinking too much about my family and my tragic circumstances. He pushed me to go on living. I
hated him for it, yet at the same time I was grateful. I am grateful. It’s the plain truth: without Richard
Parker, I wouldn’t be alive today to tell you my story. “– Pi

IV. Conclusion

The Life of Pi touches my superego, that whatever struggle we might face on our life we must never
breakdown our hopes and think for a possibility to minimize the problem and solved it.

V. recommendation