Pi: Real? Or Fake?

Real? Or Fake?
A boy with unpredictable faith, a lifeboat, live with a Tiger, on the Pacific Ocean, It’s a fantastic story when these elements get together. The Name of the boy is Pi, and he create this story with animal on the basis of his experience. He uses animal imagery to show distinct characteristics of specific character, he is interested in animal,, and he wants to escape from reality.
Pi use animal imagery which shows the distinct characteristic of each character. At the end of the book, the Japanese journalist ask Pi what’s really happened when he was lost at sea, “Mr.Patel, a tiger is an incredibly dangerous wild animal. How could you survive in a lifeboat with one? It’s-” (Martel 162). There are may details to show that animals represent special characters. First, after the orangutan was killed by the hyena, the tiger suddenly kill the hyena. But In the story without animals, the Pi's mother was killed by the cook and finally Pi kill the cook, which means Pi represent tiger Richard Parker. All of argument shows that animal version reflects to the reality and author use animal imagery to show distinct characteristics of special characters. And also Chinese seaman is the zebra, hyena represent cook, orangutan is the mother.
At the beginning of introduction, Pi says: “I attended the University of Toronto and took a double-major Bachelor’s degree. My majors were religious studies and zoology”(Martel 4). According to this quotation, we know Pi choose double-major, it means he is interested in animals. In the story with animal, he can remember all of the habit of animal, and tell us a particular story with many details. And also his father managed a zoo in India, it makes Pi has more chance to proximity and contact with animals. As a conclusion, Pi use animal because he is familiar with animal, and he understood the habit of