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Life Of Pi
Part 1
Question
Answer
What is the name of book?
Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
What is the background of story?
The background of the story is Pi and his family live in
India. The family was poor but they owned a zoo. His mother’s name was Gita Patel. His father’s name was
Santosh Patel. His brothers name was Ravi Patel.
Who are the Main characters?
The Main characters in the Life Of Pi is Pi, The bengal tiger, Orange juice, Zebra, and the Hyena.
What is the Summary of the Life
Of Pi?
The summery of Life Of Pi is Pi and his family are poor and have to sell their zoo. The family and all the animals sail off to Canada on a cargo ship. The cargo ship sinks and everyone dies except pi, Richard parker, orange juice, and the hyena. pi then has to worry about being killed either by the Hyena or the Tiger.the hyena kills the zebra then it kills orange juice. Then richard parker kills the hyena. Now all pi has to do is come up with a plan on how to deal with Richard Parker. So he does and he comes up with the idea to train him. Pi’s most prize possession becomes a simple little whistle that actually saved his life. Pi survived 227 days after the shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat. Pi finds an island with all the meerkats and plenty of water to drink but pi discovers that is carnivorous and he left in search of land. Pi then floats so long after being so desperate, worn out, exhausted, and about to die he arrives to mexico and is found and taken care of and richard parker takes off into the woods. After everything two reporters interview
Pi and ask him what happened to the ship. When Pi told them they didn’t believe him and kept saying how they want the true story so Pi substitutes the animals for people on the boat and tells them a new story. with his mother as orange juice, with the sailor as the zebra, with the cook as the hyena, and with Pi as Richard Parker.
What is the Moral of story?
The moral of Life Of Pi is have faith in yourself, believe in yourself, anything's possible,
What are the Lessons Learned?
The Lessons learned in this story are listen to your parents what they teach you is very important. Another lesson learned in this story is everyone should learn important survival skills you never know when you’ll be stranded in the middle of an ocean. Another lesson I’ve learned from this story is have faith in God, trust in God,
Love god and everything will be okay. Another lesson I learned from Life Of Pi is
Biography of Author?
Yann Martel was born on June 25, 1963, in Salamanca,
Spain, to Canadian parents. When Martel was a young boy, his parents joined the Canadian Foreign Services, and the family moved frequently, living in Alaska,
France, Costa Rica, Ontario, and British Columbia.
Martel went on to study philosophy at Trent University in Ontario, where he discovered a love for writing. After graduating in 1985, Martel lived with his parents and worked a number of odd jobs while continuing to write fiction. He published a collection of short stories,
The
Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, in 1993 and a novel,
Self
, in 1996, but neither book received much critical or commercial attention. In 2002, however,
Martel’s international literary reputation was sealed with the publication of
Life of Pi, a runaway bestseller that went on to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize
(awarded each year to the best Englishlanguage novel written by a Commonwealth or Irish author) and had since been translated into thirty languages. Fox 2000 pictures bought the screen rights to Martel’s novel, and a feature film is expected in 2008.
Name/ DOB/ Facts about life
Name:Yann Martel
Born: June 25, 1963 (age 51), Salamanca, Spain
Gender: male
Nationality
: Canadian
Movies
: Life of Pi
,
We Ate the Children Last
,
Manners of Dying
Awards:
Man Booker Prize
