Life of pi

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Life of pi 

About writer

Yann Martel:-

"Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaways worst mistake is to hope too much and do too little."

                    -yann Martel

Yann Martel was born in 25 June, 1963. He is a Canadian author best known for the man booker prize winning novel life of pi. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the bestseller list of globe and mail, among many other best selling lists.

About movie

Life of pi is a 2012 adventure drama film directed and produced by Ang Lee and written by devid Magee. Based on the same name, it stars suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe spall, Tabu and adil Hussain in lead roles.

The storyline revolves around two survivors of a shipwreck. One is a sixteen years old indian boy named pi Patel and the other is a ferocious bengal tiger named Richard Parker that are on a lifeboat stranded in the Pacific Ocean for 227 days.

Life of pi more than survival:-

Reading life of pi, I came to a surprising realisation: survival stories can be way more than just a pursuit to stay alive.

The beginning of life of pi is centred around and Indian Tamil boy named piscine (pi) patel finding his way through his childhood. Pi grows up in his family's zoo in the city of pondicherry, which immediately plunges him into zoology and understanding the nature of animals. Pi's father is a zookeeper, and pi and his brother Ravi are raised among exotic wild animals.

Pi's tale frequently digresses to explain about zookiping, animal territories , and boundaries. His father warms him of the danger of wild animals by making pi watch a tiger eat a goat, but pi also learns that "the most dangerous animal at zoo is man."

Pi is raised culturally Hindu, but his family is generally unreligious. As a youth pi becomes devoutly hindu and then converts to Christianity and Islam. He practices all three religions at once, despite the protests of his parents and the religious leaders.

The Emergency brings political turmoil to India and pi's parents decided to sell the zoo and move the family to Canada . They board a Japanese cargo ship called the tsimtsum, traveling with many of the zoo animals.

There is an explosion one night and the tsimtsum starts sinking. Pi is a awake at the time, and some sailors throw him into a lifeboat. The ship sinks, leaving no human survivors except for pi. Pi sees a tiger , Richard Parker and encourages him to climb abourd. Pi eventually finds himself on the lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, and orange juice the orgngutan.The Hyena kills the zebra and kills orange juice. Pi notices that Richard Parker is still in the boat, hiding under a tarpaulin. Richard Parker kills the Hyena , leaving pi alone with the tiger.

Pi marks a raft for himself and finds supplies in the lifeboat , and he sets about marking his territory and taming richard Parker using a whistle.Pi loses track of time as months pass. He remembers episodes like seeing a whale, experiencing a lighting storm, and watching a ship pass by pi goes temporarily blind and hears a voice talking to him.

At first he thinking it is Parker, but then he realises it is another castaways who is also blind. The two discuss food and then bring their boats together. The castaways attacks pi, intending to kills the castaways.Later the boat comes to a mysterious island made entirely of algae and inhabited by thousands of meerkats. Pi and Richard Parker stay there for a while and recover their health.

One day pi finds a tree with human teeth as its fruit, and he realises that the isaland is carnivorous.pi decides to leave with Richard Parker. Finally the lifeboat washes up on a beath in Mexico. Richard Parker disappears into the jungle without looking back, and pi is rescued by some villagers.The last section is a transcript of an interview between pi and two japanese officials who are trying to figure out why the tsimtsum sank. Pi tells them his story, but they don't believe him.He then tells them a second story, replacing the animals with humans in version pi is on the lifeboat with a French cook, a Chinese sailor, and his own mother.

The sailor dies and the cook eats. His flesh. The cook later kills pi's mother, and then pi kills the cook, the official are horrified , but they believe this story.They note that the Hyena is the cook, the zebra is the sailor, orange juice is pi's mother, and Richard Parker is pi himself.

Pi asks the official which story they prefer, and they say the one with animals in their final report they commend pi for surviving at sea with tiger.

The last section is a transcript of an interview between pi and two japanese officials who are trying to figure out why the trimtsum sank. Pi tells them his story, but they don't believe him. 

Key fect about life of pi :-

Full title:- Life of Pi

Where written:- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

When published:- 2001

Literary period:- contemporary fiction

Genre fiction:- fiction, magical realism

Setting:- pondicherry, india , the Pacific Ocean, Mexico and Toronto, caneda

Climax:- pi finds land

Antagonist:- The Hyena/ French Cook

Point of view:- first person limited from both the author and the adult pi.

Moral message of the story :-

The moral message of life of pi is that never give up. Always ready for fight with new problems and give your best untill the become successful. And we also need to treat our animals friends better.

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