Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Yann Martel was the author of a best-selling book called Life of Pi. He is a Canadian author from Saskatoon and wrote this bestselling book in 2002. I hear it is a famous book, and the scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and beloved works of fiction in recent years. Exciting, isn't it? But here is the juicy part - the plot.

The storyline is set in 1977 to 1978 in the Pacific Ocean for the majority of the book. The main character is called Piscine Patel, shortly Pi Patel. He and his family decide to move from India because, in the late-70s, they didn't feel safe about their government and wanted to move to Canada, Winnipeg. The government was one of the push factors of the country. Anyways, Pi and his family go to Canada on an old Japanese ship called Tsimtsum. But they didn't make it to Winnipeg because their boat sank. Pi is the only survivor of the disaster other than a 450 pound Bengal tiger, a female orangutan, a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg and Pi himself. Surprisingly, and I suppose quite obviously, Pi survived or who would be here to tell the story to us, right? But during the book, though I was scared for Pi, and you know, the probability of getting to land in the ocean on a raft is relatively low. I felt quite entertained by the book (that might be because I wasn't the one stuck in the sea on a raft, haha).

This part of the article is for great people that stayed till the end. It contains major spoilers about the book but also offers quite a lot of food for thought. Do you remember how Pi spoke to the Japanese officials in Mexico? And how he made that analogy - he is the tiger, the brute cook from the ship was the hyena, the orangutan was his mom, and the zebra was a Japanese sailor. I wonder if this is the darker but a truthful story. We will never know this now, huh?