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Pi Allegory

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After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a lifeboat remains floating on the blue Pacific ocean. The only survivors are a sixteen year old teenager named Pi, a hyena, a zebra witch has a broken leg, a female orangutan and a 450 pound Royal Bengal tiger.
It is a surprisingly entertaining story that involves the animal kingdom. The story itself does not concern itself overly with plausibility and at times Martel lets his imagination run wild, using allegory and metaphor to further the story (and to deliver his own personal messages on a variety of subjects). Life of Pi isn’t a fantasy or magical-realist fable, but a trilling adventure. Pi is determined to survive that situation that looks impossible at first sight, using unusual technics to fish
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