Yann Martel’s Life of Pi documents the life of a young man who survives 227 days adrift the vast Pacific Ocean with a tiger on a life boat. Piscine Molitar Patel (Pi for short), was a simple but bright young man who was born to an Indian family. While growing up in Pondicherry India, Pi’s father maintained and operated a zoo, where he was let to roam the zoo and interact with animals and staff. Yet, due to India’s Political unrest, Pi’s family decided to move to Canada and in order to do so they had to sell off the animals to bidders from North America. Accordingly, Pi and his family set across the Pacific Ocean in a cargo ship along with cages full of their animals. Unfortunately, however the ship sinks, leaving Pi and a few animals in a lifeboat
