Quotes From Life Of Pi

Decent Essays
Jasmine Gong
Mrs. Hagen
English 9 Per.3
August 26. 2015

Life Of Pi:Judge the main character’s actions Do you have your own experience of an exciting adventure? Through the title of this book, you can clearly know Pi is the main character. Pi has his own exciting adventure experience with a tiger on the sea. Pi found a special and profound relationship with this tiger and they become friends. Pi made many decisions because he need alive. In this book, Pi’s father immigrants their family to Canada, so they need to move out from their country. Pi has to leave his lover or he can’t live with his family. At that situation, he choose to go with his family. He leave his lover with sadness. I believe that if I was in that situation

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