Life Of Pi Literary Analysis
The Life of Pi
A Book Analysis
The Life of Pi is a book about a boy named Pi Patel. He starts talking about his life before the shipwreck as he loved swimming so did his family. His father owned a zoo and he helped his father at the zoo. One day they decide to move the zoo and everything gets loaded onto a cargo ship. During the ride on the ship he hears a noise and the ship starts to sink drowning his family. However he is thrown onto a lifeboat which already had a zebra and a hyena on it as the ship is dropped to the water, He sees Richard Parker who actually turns out to be a Bengal tiger but he throws a life buoy to it and helps it to him, realizing his mistake he tries to use an oar to push it away which it bats the oar away and is lost, then it climbs aboard and hides …show more content…
Time begins to pass and the zebra is attacked by the hyena but not killed which he finds strange. They find an orangutan which is named “Orange Juice” that he finds comfort with as they drift, Pi was not really eating much but shows signs of slowly going insane. This insanity is sort of a drive for him as he seems to converse a but with Orange Juice but mostly finds comfort in it. The hyena and Orange Juice get into some small “arguments” that consist mostly of growling and snarling. One day the hyena attacks the zebra starting to gut it and eat it while it's alive but surprisingly the next morning the zebra is alive. Soon the tension between Orange Juice and the hyena peaks and the hyena kills Orange Juice of course getting smacked around a bit. The climax of the book reaches and Pi discovers Richard Parker, the tiger, Is still aboard the boat. He quickly makes a raft and ropes himself to the lifeboat and stays on the raft covering himself with blankets to protect from the sun. Richard Parker eventually kills off the hyena and eats or lets what is left to rot. Pi once sneaks on the ship and
A Book Analysis
The Life of Pi is a book about a boy named Pi Patel. He starts talking about his life before the shipwreck as he loved swimming so did his family. His father owned a zoo and he helped his father at the zoo. One day they decide to move the zoo and everything gets loaded onto a cargo ship. During the ride on the ship he hears a noise and the ship starts to sink drowning his family. However he is thrown onto a lifeboat which already had a zebra and a hyena on it as the ship is dropped to the water, He sees Richard Parker who actually turns out to be a Bengal tiger but he throws a life buoy to it and helps it to him, realizing his mistake he tries to use an oar to push it away which it bats the oar away and is lost, then it climbs aboard and hides …show more content…
Time begins to pass and the zebra is attacked by the hyena but not killed which he finds strange. They find an orangutan which is named “Orange Juice” that he finds comfort with as they drift, Pi was not really eating much but shows signs of slowly going insane. This insanity is sort of a drive for him as he seems to converse a but with Orange Juice but mostly finds comfort in it. The hyena and Orange Juice get into some small “arguments” that consist mostly of growling and snarling. One day the hyena attacks the zebra starting to gut it and eat it while it's alive but surprisingly the next morning the zebra is alive. Soon the tension between Orange Juice and the hyena peaks and the hyena kills Orange Juice of course getting smacked around a bit. The climax of the book reaches and Pi discovers Richard Parker, the tiger, Is still aboard the boat. He quickly makes a raft and ropes himself to the lifeboat and stays on the raft covering himself with blankets to protect from the sun. Richard Parker eventually kills off the hyena and eats or lets what is left to rot. Pi once sneaks on the ship and