Piscine Molitor Patel's Life

Piscine Molitor Patel was born and raised in India. It was in India where he was named after Mamaji’s (his father’s business partner) favorite swimming pool. It was in India where he came up with the nickname Pi to stop the bullies from making fun of his name. It was in India where he fell in love with God three times and with three different ways: with Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. However, Pi learned most when he was trapped on a lifeboat for 227 with a tiger. When Pi was sixteen, his father sold their beloved zoo and animals so they could move to Canada. While on the Tsimtsum, a storm struck and the boat started to sink. Pi was thrown onto a lifeboat and before anyone else could jump in, a zebra jumped onto the lifeboat and caused the …show more content…
To separate himself from the tiger, he made a raft using oars, life jackets, and a lifebuoy. And to coexist (and to make sure Richard Parker doesn’t get hungry enough to eat him), Pi established a routine of waking up, praying, eating, fishing in the morning, praying, eating, easy going activities in mid-morning to late afternoon, prayers, fishing, and dinner in late afternoon to early evening, and inspecting the raft, collecting rain, and sleeping at sunset and night. And it worked, they were able to live with each other and survive. After surviving 227 days on the lifeboat with a tiger, they landed in Mexico and Richard Parker left before people rescued Pi. People came to interview him, the sole survivor of the sunken Tsimtsum. Pi would tell his story, of living on a lifeboat with animals and surviving over two hundred days with a tiger. No one believed him so he made up a new story, one with no animals. And they accepted this story, despite it not explaining why the ship sunk. Pi stayed in the hospital until he recovered before moving up to Canada, going to college, getting a degree in zoology and religious studies. He married and had two kids. And he survived to tell his