Life of Pi
This is a witty, funny and heart wrentching story, written simply but carries a hidden message, and a promise to keep you thinking about it over and over.
Its a story about a boy named Pi, who lives in Pondicherry, India with his father mother and brother. He goes about doing regular teenage things, although Pi is no ordinary boy. His curiosity for religion and god bring many persons into his life and sometimes also many a trouble with them.
When Pi is only 14 his family decides to immigrate to Canada, his father owns a zoo in India and decides to take some of the animals with them on the Japanese ship to sell to American buyers across the ocean. On the way to Canada the ship sinks and Pi is the sole survivor, the sole human survivor that is.. or is he?
Pi finds himself stuck on a life raft with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra with a broken leg and an adult bengal tiger.
Pi survives his ordeal and after spending 221 days on the ocean he is finally rescued.
This is the story of Pi. Don’t miss it!
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Written by Smriti on November 19th, 2006 with
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