Pi and Richard Parker eat and drink freely and regain strength. Weeks later they reach a floating island of edible plants, supporting a mangrove jungle, fresh water pools, and a large population of meerkats. Pi trains Richard Parker to accept him in the boat and realizes that caring for Richard Parker is keeping him alive. Pi loses most of his supplies, forcing him to eat fish for the first time in his life. One night, a humpback whale breaches and lands on the rope connecting the raft to the lifeboat, completely destroying the raft. When the tiger jumps into the sea to hunt for fish to eat, Pi considers letting it drown but ultimately helps it climb back into the boat. He also collects rain water for them to drink. He begins fishing and is able to feed Richard Parker. Richard Parker then retreats under the tarpaulin and does not emerge for several days.Īfter many days at sea, Pi retrieves biscuits, water rations and a hand axe from the lifeboat and builds a small raft to stay at a safe distance from Richard Parker. Later, Richard Parker emerges from under the tarpaulin, killing the hyena and attempting to attack Pi, who distracts it by throwing a rat into its mouth. A spotted hyena emerges from a tarpaulin covering half of the lifeboat and snaps at Pi, forcing him to retreat to the end of the boat, while it kills and eats the zebra, and later fights the orangutan, eventually killing it too. Pi attempts to prevent the tiger from entering the boat with an oar, however it climbs in anyway.Īfter the storm, Pi finds himself in the lifeboat with the injured zebra, and is joined by an orangutan who has survived the sinking on a floating crate of bananas. He calls out to the 'survivor' who swims towards the lifeboat, however it turns out to be Richard Parker. After the ship disappears, Pi sees what he believes is a survivor struggling in the ocean. Pi watches helplessly as the ship sinks, drowning his family. As the ship falls into the sea, a freed zebra jumps onto the boat with him, breaking its leg as it lands. He tries to find his family, but a member of the crew throws him into a lifeboat. During a storm, the ship founders while Pi is on deck. Pi's family books passage on a Japanese freighter named Tsimtsum. When Pi is 16, his father decides to move the family to Canada, where he intends to settle and sell the zoo animals. His mother supports his desire to grow, but his father, a rationalist, tries to convert him to his own way of thinking. Pi is raised Hindu and vegetarian, but at 12 years old, he is introduced to Christianity and then Islam, and decides to follow all three religions as he "just wants to love God". When Pi tries feeding Richard Parker through the cage bars, his enraged father runs in and tells him that Richard Parker is dangerous and would kill him if it had the chance, and so his father forces Pi to witness Richard Parker killing a goat to prove his point. Pi's family owned a zoo, and Pi took great interest in the animals, especially a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. By the time he reached secondary school, he changed his name to "Pi" (the Greek letter, π) because he was tired of being called "Pissing Patel" (due to the pronunciation of his name). In a flashback, Pi's father named him Piscine Molitor after a swimming pool in France. Spoiler warning: The following contains plot details aboutĪ Canadian novelist named Yann Martel meets an Indian man, Pi Patel, with some knowledge from Pi's late father's friend, known to Pi as "Mamaji", for a good book.
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