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The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.
The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional--but is it more true?
From Amazon.com Review:
Yann Martel's imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker ("His head was the size and color of the lifebuoy, with teeth"). It sounds like a colorful setup, but these wild beasts don't burst into song as if co-starring in an anthropomorphized Disney feature. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat's sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the elements, and an overactive imagination. In rich, hallucinatory passages, Pi recounts the harrowing journey as the days blur together, elegantly cataloging the endless passage of time and his struggles to survive: "It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion."
An award winner in Canada (and winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize), Life of Pi, Yann Martel's second novel, should prove to be a breakout book in the U.S. At one point in his journey, Pi recounts, "My greatest wish--other than salvation--was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One that I could read again and again, with new eyes and fresh understanding each time." It's safe to say that the fabulous, fablelike Life of Pi is such a book. --Brad Thomas Parsons
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Great book! -  |
Life of Pi Review |
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This book is easy to read, causes you to think, and pushes your imagination! Pi is a great character. |
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A New Classic - |
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Life of Pi by Yann Martel is one of my favorite books of all time. It is an extremely unique and magnetic novel. The best way to sum it up is a quote from The San Diego Union-Tribune. "Life of Pi may not make you believe in God. But it will make you believe in literature." That quote is absolutely accurate. Life of Pi is magical. It is very much a fairy tale or fable for adults. It is funny, moving and enchanting.
The story is about a 16 year old Indian boy named Pi Patel. His family owns a zoo and are emigrating America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. The ship sinks and Pi ends up being trapped on a life boat with a hyena, an orangutan and a zebra. Oh, and a Bengal tiger... you can't forget the tiger. The plot is very implausible, but Yann Martel manages to make it believable. A lot of this book deals with religious themes, but don't let that stop you from reading if you are not a religious person. I consider myself an atheist and found the religious themes to be an interesting lens to see through. Yann Martel is a really refreshing writer. I definitely recommend Life of Pi to anyone. It will capture your imagination. |
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A high school assigned book that isn't boring! - |
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This book was assigned to my English 10 honors class and initially my first thought of this book was that it was going to be completely horrible. However, I am happy to report that it was actually a great story!
This isn't your typical English class book. It is fairly recent, written only a couple of years ago instead of the usual book that was published before 1960! The first part of the book is set in the late 70's in Pondicherry, India. Its about a boy with an unusual name; Piscine (sounds almost exactly like pissing), which is French for swimming pool and because kids teased him about it he shorten it to Pi once he got to high school. Religion plays a major part in this book, even claiming in the beginning that it will make you a believer in God. Pi's family isn't particulary religious but he starts practicing not one but three religions. Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. All he wants to do is love God. Another major part of the story is that his father is a zoo keeper. Pi knows all about animals and which ones are dangerous and whatnot. Later on, Pi and his family decided to move to Canada and so, his father sells what animals he could to other zoos and some of the other animals ride on the ship with the family to Canada. We get to the second part. The ship sinks. Without giving away all what happens. I'll say this. I couldn't believe all what Pi has to go through on a lifeboat. With a 450 pound BENGAL TIGER! It really is something to read. And although it was good at that point, I'll admit I didn't keep up with my reading after awhile. One of my reading quizzes proves it!! It was getting closer towards the major test (actually, the night before) and I had to read a little more than 100 pages. I do not think I would have actually read all of it if I hadn't heard the others talking about it in class. Once Pi gets saved (and don't worry, I'm not giving anything away, because you know he lives as there are present tense scenes, which are confusing at first) we learn of a second story that happened while Pi was on the boat. So, its a story within a story and you're left with a question. What story is the truth?! |
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Almost like a Life with Pi... - |
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Alright, I'd just like to say right off the bat, that I'm a high school student. So if you're a teacher looking for an amazing book for your kids to read with a message, then I for one...and probably at least half of the almost 2,000 people who made reviews, say that Life of Pi is the best nominee.
The story line's simple and straight-forward. Piscine a.k.a Pi Patel is a fifteen year old in Pondicherry, India. His father owns a zoo, and decides to embark on a cargo ship, with animals and all, to Canada. Half way on his family's journey, the cargo sinks, leaving poor, lonely Pi left on a lifeboat with a zebra...then a hyena...then an orangutan...and then there's Richard Parker, a Bengal tiger. And with this crew of his, Pi makes his way to land and safety, having various events happening along the way. Most importantly, due to a series of these events, only Richard Parker and Pi survive which leaves Pi to use the little resources he has to show the tiger he is dominant. All the while, Pi encounters numerous side adventures, including a blind caraway, learning to fish, and an island of glowing algae. But this isn't just a "Your Survival Guide to Living at Sea" sort of thing. It's not even a "Survival Guide to Training Tigers." Over all of this, it tells you how to have faith. At the beginning, Martel tells the reader that they'll believe in god by the end of the book. That's not exactly true seeing that this whole story is fiction (Even though at first it seemed so descriptive that I thought it was non-fiction). What it did do was make me want to believe; to believe in [any] god, and to believe that this story was real because it was just so eerie and magical at once. Pi himself knew the stories of three different religions and used them to keep hopeful, because if there's no hope, there's no will to live and Pi would never would have made it to Canada. Now as I was looking at all the one-starred reviews, I realized they were mostly the same; people were saying Life of Pi was either too long and boring, or too gory. I will agree with gory, for it was, explaining in gruesome detail a death or four. As for long and boring, well maybe they aren't just ready for this level of spirituality. Some of the time, I thought it was a little stretched, too. Mostly when it came to the 227 days of sailing. But this just made the un-boring parts (like the island) even sweeter. However, my favorite message in the whole of the book doesn't happen at sea, or in India, but rather at the end of Pi's journey. Pi is talking to a couple of Japanese messengers (that word might not be so accurate) from the company that built the cargo boat that sank. All they needed was enough information of why the boat sank, but Pi gave them much more. He told them the original story, bizarre but true. The Japanese didn't believe a word of it. Then Pi told them a false story, more rational, but far more frightening. The point is that the way we tell our stories tell of our lives, whether they be false or true. Of course, Pi is really an irrational number, non-repeating and never-ending, fitting his story perfectly. The whole book is almost like pieces in a puzzle, but you have to read in between the lines. And because of all these elements, I'd recommend the book to anyone. The story may be irrational, but the words flow in a way that's almost rational; every word is like the reader is going one step further with Pi on his spiritual, enlightening, and uplifting story with Richard Parker. |
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A Wonderful Read, Cover to Cover! - |
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Matt Smetana
Period 8 --My Opinion-- I believe that this book clearly displays Pi's will to survive. All of the things that were taught to him by his father and religious leaders helped him overcome the great odds of surviving on the vast, open ocean. His father taught him about animals, and showing dominance. His religious leaders taught him to look to god when in doubt, and not to give up. The only weakness I found in this book was that if children decided to read this book, it has some parts that are potentially inappropriate, depending on said age group. Notice in the story that Richard Parker was actually a metaphor that describes Pi, and how he was the one who destroyed all of those things. The plot in this book was incredible, and I can tell what Yann Martel was trying to teach his readers; that even after terrible things like having your family die on a sinking ship, and being out at sea for months with only a ferocious tiger to keep you company, that you can still live a great life, and achieve so much after having so little. This book is a great read, that you may find hard to put down after you start, so clear your schedule, and read a book that has made top ten of my list of great reads! --Book Summary-- Life of Pi, a novel written by Yann Martel, depicts how a young child becomes stranded at sea with a tiger accompanying him on a ship. The book starts out when Piscine (Pi) is talking about his family, and why they continue to live in Canada. Pis father is the owner of the Zoo of Pondicherry and from that, Pi has learned about the different animals that inhabit the zoo, and how to take care of them. In one lesson, Pi's father teaches him and his brother about how to show dominance over a wild animal; he uses one of the zoo's tigers as an example. From the experience, Pi now knows how to teach dominance in wild animals. The next section exemplifies Pi's polytheism, and how that causes problems between him, his family, and the churches in which he practices. Within the section, Pi's parents continue to suede him only to be Hindi, but Pi thinks that the belief in many gods is better because it gives you something to look forward to in the after life. Pi's father says that because of the current leader of India, he will move the zoo across the Pacific Ocean to Canada. Taking a last look at the zoo, Pi states the he will truly miss India. His family packs up their belongings, and heads off to sea. Somewhere on their journey, there was a massive error, and the massive ship begins to sink. The workmen on board decide to help Pi by tossing him into the only rescue boat along with a Bengal tiger, a hyena, a zebra, and an orangutan. The 400-pound Bengal tiger's name is Richard Parker, who scares Pi to say the least. The hyena takes his time eating the zebra, and Pi tries his best to keep Orange Juice, the orangutan, out of harm's way. But eventually, Orange Juice is consumed slowly by the hyena, who is then eaten by Richard Parker. By then, Pi is really nervous about his safety on the ship, so he constructs a small raft out of supplies found on the ship to stay out of Richard Parker's way. Pi starts to show his dominance over Richard Parker by using a whistle and food, exactly the way his father had showed him and Ravi. Over time, Richard Parker feels less superior to Pi, and shows this by going to the bathroom away from Pi. After many months, Pi finds a blind old man drifting at sea. They engage in a long conversation about his deceased shipmates and how the man wants more than anything to eat a shoe. Pi wonders why this man is so odd, until the man says that he would like to eat Pi. As he begins to lunge at Pi, Richard Parker saves the day, by swooping at the man, killing him. A little while later, Pi finds himself near a strange island inhabited by even stranger creatures. Those creatures are meerkats, which find their food in small little ponds all over the island. Right after his arrival, Pi notices that the island is made entirely of algae. Richard Parker spends his days on the island killing and eating meerkats, while at night he sleeps on the ship. Not until after few weeks does Pi realize the islands true nature. At night, all of the meerkats flock to the tree branches to sleep because on the ground, the algae turns acidic, and burns anything it touches. He finally notices it after he found a whole set of teeth in a tree branch. Pi and Richard Parker then leave the island and drift for a little while longer, until they reach the coast of Mexico, where upon their arrival, Richard Parker runs of into the forest. Pi finds Mexican officials who he tells his story to, but they don't believe him. It was then that Pi travels to Canada to live his life, and start his own family. |
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