Life of Pi (Unabridged) by Yann Martel Essay -- Life of Pi Unabridge

The son of a menageriekeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic familiarity of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to unification America aboard a Japanese cargo institutionalise, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyaena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all told simply Pi, whose fear, association, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days mend lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities that interrogate Pi refuse to believe his tommyrot and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional and is it more lawful?Pi, short for piscine M olitor Patel, is a young Indian boy growing up in South India in the 1970s. His overprotect owns a zoo and, with increasing political unrest in India, decides to mete out up and emigrate to Canada. They accompany the wild animals on board the ship on their journey to the new zoos in North America. The ship sinks and Pi finds himself the only human survivor onboard a life raft that contains, earlier remarkably, a zebra, a large m another(prenominal)ly orangutan, a frenzied hyena and a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Of course, the law of nature eventually rules and Pi ends up as the tigers last remaining occupant. He must use all his knowledge of zoology and animal behavior to create boundaries and survive. Which he does for 227 days.In Pondicherry, India, Piscine Pi Patel enjoys his childhood as the son of the local zookeeper tights mess of fun things to do. In that role, Pi learns a great deal round the wild beasts that his father keeps. Though a Hindu, Pi also finds joy in learnin g about Christianity and Islam and willingly practices the three belief systems over the objections of his family and religious leaders.Now sixteen, Pis father decides to relocate to Canada. His dad sells most of the animals, but takes a few with them on their sea voyage. However, disaster strikes with the ship sinking. Pi accompanied by a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra and Richard Parker the 450-pound Bengal share a raft. Richard eliminates the other animals leav... ...mingly endless sea. Soon after, at long last, he reaches land. He attains Enlightenment. The tiger bounds off into the jungle-- Pis suffering is released completely. He is nursed back to health and lives a relative normal life, with the distinction that his experience has fully rouse him. He walks as a true adult among the many ghostly children of the world. He still has the normal problems, challenges, and disappointments of life Enlightenment does not mean everything is perfect. But Pi can bring forth what is nee ded in each moment, and does not suffer from the pains, failures, and sorrows of being human. He lives through them without getting caught in them. (Similarly, he is fully awake for all the wonderful pleasures and intimacies of life. And in all occurrences, he brings a deep compassion and love for all beings). The best part of the story is the end. (Stop reading if you dont want to know). This is a true story. It doesnt need all the longwinded interpretation you just read. It stands on its own as truth. Maybe its just a story of a boy and a tiger on a boat. Either way, Pi Patel shows us the stimulate power of the human spirit in the face of deep suffering.