In the story Life of Pi by Yann Martel, it is about a young boy named Pi Patel, who ends up surviving a shipwreck and lives several months on a lifeboat with a tiger named Richard Parker. Before this occurred, in the beginning of the book it introduces Pi’s childhood. The Patel family runs a zoo in their hometown in India. Pi’s father, Santosh, realizes that his son’s lack of experience with the Bengal tiger could put him in danger. As he realized, what he does with the children is having them watch the tiger kill and eat the goat, he served it to teach them the real danger of a tiger. After a few years in Pi’s childhood, the Patel family ends up deciding to sell the animals and the zoo to migrate to Canada on a ship called Tsimtsum. As they were on a ship, a frightening storm occurs, but Pi was excited about it. When he went onto the deck, he got thrown on a lifeboat by crew members because of the terrible storm. …show more content…
Before his eyes, the hyena eats the zebra then heads straight towards the orangutan, but she puts up a good fight with the hyena; although the hyena won. Out of nowhere from underneath a canvas, Richard Parker appears and attacks the hyena to where the hyena was no more. Therefore, Richard Parker and Pi are alone on the lifeboat together. As Pi watches the tiger’s motions, he realizes that he’ll probably die of thirst before the tiger can get him. He knows the tiger will attack at any minute, he carefully looks how he can receive water. Inside the lifeboat he finds a few things: biscuits, water, a handbook about surviving, a whistle. With his found tools, he gathers Lifejackets and oars to make himself a raft to stay out of Richard Parker’s reach and out of the dangerous