The Life of Pi is a fictional novel about a faithful young man having to be able to survive on a lifeboat with a tiger named Richard Parker. The young man, or the main protagonist is Piscine Molitor Patel. Piscine is named after his Uncle’s, Mamaji, favorite pool. Piscine decided to change his name to Pi the Greek letter instead of always being called Piscine. But this Greek letter also takes the form of a formula used to find the circumference of a circle. Pi is rounded to 3.14 but this number has no ending, no pattern, no consistency. But this has significance with Piscine’s life in this book. Pi is an irrational number. Piscine’s life relates to this by what Piscine believes in. In the novel we learn he worships 3 religions. He is born