Pi spends the night on the raft. He drinks the rainwater that has accumulated from the rain. Pi comes to the conclusion that he needs to outlast Richard Parker. By morning time, Pi reconsiders his plans from last night. He comes to the conclusion that Richard Parker will get hungry and come eat him. Pi starts to realize that fear is the real enemy. Later on, Richard Parker makes a snort sound from his nose. Pi knows the sound as prusten an expression of "friendliness and harmless intentions." Pi realizes he can tame Richard Parker. In the midst of his plans, Pi thinks that he should improve his raft, because he realizes he that ships aren’t going to come and rescue him. He has to find other means of survival instead of hoping for a ship to …show more content…
Pi decides that he will drink some the rainwater and then pee above the tarpaulin to mark his territory. Pi then improves his raft. Pi wakes up and decides to fish. He doesn't have much luck in the beginning because his bait is only bits of a shoe. Suddenly, flying fish pass over the boat and he kills one of the flying fish. He decides to use the flying fish as bait, which is successful. Pi catches a dorado. He kills it and throws it to Richard Parker and blows the whistle. Pi keeps himself busy with tasks such as chores and activities. Pi starts to realize that to survive you must forget the notion of time. He continues to fish, by grabbing the fish with his hands and chopping their heads. He decides he needs to train Richard Parker to allow him onto the lifeboat. Pi makes a training manual for taming an animal. Pi keeps a diary, writing down observations, and does religious rituals. Pi catches a mako shark and throws it to Richard Parker, but he gets bitten. Pi realizes that the tiger is not perfect. A dorado leaps onto the lifeboat and Pi has it. Richard Parker sees the fish and gets into an attack crouch. Pi stares Richard Parker down until he backs …show more content…
The lifeboat washes ashore on a Mexican beach. Pi throws himself on the sand and Richard Parker runs away into the jungle. Pi cries because he wasn’t able to say goodbye. Villagers save Pi and take him to a hospital. The Ministry directs Tomohiro Okamoto and Atsuro Chiba to speak with Pi to understand why the ship sank. The interview begins and they ask him to tell his story. Okamoto and Chiba express their disbelief. They tell him that many parts of his story are impossible. Pi asks the two men if they disliked his story and Okamoto says that they enjoyed it, but that they need to know what really happened. Pi says he will tell another story and says that there were four people on the lifeboat: Pi, his mother, the cook, and a sailor. The sailor dies and the cook eats him. Pi and his mother try to stop him. The cook kills Pi’s mother and Pi fights the cook and kills him. He eats the cook. Okamoto and Chiba notice the similarities between the characters and actions of this second story and the first story. They ask more questions, but Pi can tell them nothing to help solve the mystery of the sinking. In Okamoto’s report, he writes that Pi’s story of survival at sea was with a