Life of Pi
This story is about a young boy named "Piscine Molitor Patel," also known as "Pi." He lived with his father, mother and siblings. They landed in the Pacific Ocean, they had many difficulties. There were animals abored such as an orangutan, a zebra, a hyena and a Bengal tiger. All of the people and animals died except for the Begnal tiger and Pi.
A never ending journey
Welcome to the Life of Pi, a story of bravery, faith and truth, man versus nature and innocence and experience
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Piscine arrived to Benito Juarez infirmary, Tomantlan, Mexico
The interview began February 19, 1978. Pi began to tell Mr.Chiba and Mr.Okamoto about the journey he had on the Tsimtsun ship. Both men did not believe his story, because they said it is impossible for a banana to float, suddenly Pi took a banana out from his bed sheet, they tested it and indeed bananas do float. Once Pi was done telling the story both men did not believe him, therefore Pi began to tell another story that did not contain any type of animals. He began by saying who were in the lifeboat, Pi, his mother, the cook (an ill-tempered, greedy French man) and a sailor (a young Chinese boy). He told both Mr. Chiba and Mr. Okamoto how the sailor had a broken leg because he jumped to the lifeboat, the leg began to decay so the chef cut his leg off to save his life, little did they know he was using it as bait. The sailor died and the cook began to eat him. Pi's mother was in shock of what a monster he was. Later Pi's mother and the chef got into a fight, his mom stayed on the boat while Pi jumped off, and the chef killed her. Pi looked up and saw his mother's head fall to his direction. The next day Pi had a knife and stabbed the chef in the stomach, then next to the Adam's apple. The chef was dead, Pi ate his heart, liver and pieces of his flesh. Then Mr.Chiba and Mr.Okamoto were surprised, but now they did believe him.
Monday, September 5, 2011
The different time periods people survived at sea
The Robertson family survived thirty-eight days at sea. Captain Bligh of the celebrated mutinous Bounty and his castaways survived for forty-seven days. Steven Callahan survived seventy-six. Owen Chase,survived eighty-three days interrupted by a one-week stay on an inhospitable island. The Bailey family survived 118 days. The Korean merchant sailor named Poon, survived the Pacific for 173 days on the 1950s. Pi survived 227 days.
The begining of Richard Parker
There have been many reports of a panther killing people near Bangladesh. The hunter left a goat as bait, instead of capturing a panther, the hunter sedated a mother and her cub, they were both sent to Pondicherry Zoo. On the way to the zoo they mixed up the names, the cub was named Thirsty and the hunter was Richard Parker. Instead the cub was Richard Parker and the hunter was Thirsty. This is how his life had began.
The deadly animal scene
The zebra had jumped and broke his leg, in the morning Pi saw how the hyena had bitten off the zebra's leg, and eating it. While the zebra was still alive. Later the hyena and the Orang-utan (orange juice) got into a fierce standoff, Orange juice had killed the hyena with a powerful hit, the hyena had been killed. Pi was astonished of her, because she was a maternal creature that grew up at the Pondicherry Zoo and could be this violent when she had to defend herself. Sadly after a while Richard Parker had killed Orange juice. Only Richard Parker and Pi were left on the lifeboat.
The dangerous animals in the zoo
One day Pi's father was showing him and his brother Ravi how dangerous animals are, and under no circumstances should they ever get close to a cage, to pet them or to put their hands through the bars. He demonstrated the danger by placing a goat in the tiger's cage, and watching the tiger eat it in one bite. He soon walked Pi and Ravi to each cage explaining the danger of them. He began with the lions and leopards, Pi's dad told them a story of how a madman in Australia who was a black belt in karate wanted to prove that he was tougher than the lions, the next day the keeper found only half his body because he had lost, badly. He moved on to the Himalayan bears and the sloth bears, one strike of their claws and your on the ground gushing blood out. The hippos, with their flabby mouth they can crush your body to a bloody pulp. The hyenas, They have the strongest jaws in nature, they will start eating you while you're alive. The orang-utans are as strong as ten men, they will break your bones as if they were twigs. Ostriches can kick and your back is broken. The Arabian camel can bite you and take a big chunk of flesh. The black swan can break your skull with their beaks, and with their wings they will break your arms.
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Pi's daily routine
Sunrise to mid-morning:
wake up
prayers
breakfast for Richard Parker
general inspection of raft and lifeboat, with particular attention paid to all knots and ropes tending of solar stills (wiping, inflating, topping off with water)
breakfast and inspection of food stores
fishing and preparing of fish if any caught (gutting, cleaning, hanging strips of flesh on lines to cure in the sun)
Mid-morning to late afternoon:
prayers
light lunch
rest and restful activities (writing in diary, examining of scabs and sores, up keeping of equipment, puttering about locker, observation and study of Richard Parker, picking at of turtle bones, etc.)
Late afternoon to early evening:
prayers
fishing and preparing of fish
tending of curing strips of flesh (turning over, cutting away of putrid parts)
dinner preparations
dinner for self and Richard Parker
Sunset:
general inspection of raft and lifeboat (knots and ropes again)
collecting and safekeeping of distillate from solar stills
storing of all foods and equipment
arrangements for night (making of bed, safe storage on raft of flare, in case of ship, and rain catcher, in case of rain)
Night:
fitful sleeping
prayers
wake up
prayers
breakfast for Richard Parker
general inspection of raft and lifeboat, with particular attention paid to all knots and ropes tending of solar stills (wiping, inflating, topping off with water)
breakfast and inspection of food stores
fishing and preparing of fish if any caught (gutting, cleaning, hanging strips of flesh on lines to cure in the sun)
Mid-morning to late afternoon:
prayers
light lunch
rest and restful activities (writing in diary, examining of scabs and sores, up keeping of equipment, puttering about locker, observation and study of Richard Parker, picking at of turtle bones, etc.)
Late afternoon to early evening:
prayers
fishing and preparing of fish
tending of curing strips of flesh (turning over, cutting away of putrid parts)
dinner preparations
dinner for self and Richard Parker
Sunset:
general inspection of raft and lifeboat (knots and ropes again)
collecting and safekeeping of distillate from solar stills
storing of all foods and equipment
arrangements for night (making of bed, safe storage on raft of flare, in case of ship, and rain catcher, in case of rain)
Night:
fitful sleeping
prayers
Supplies Pi had on the lifeboat
- 192 tablets of anti-seasickness medicine
- 124 tin cans of fresh water, each containing 500 millilitres, 60 litres in all
- 32 plastic plastic vomit bags
- 31 cartons of emergency rations, 500 grams each. 15.5 kilos in total
- 16 wool blankets
- 12 solar stills
- 10 orange life jackets, each with an orange whistle
- 6 morphine ampoule syringes
- 6 hand flares
- 5 buoyant oars
- 4 rocket parachute flares
- 3 tough, transparent plastic bags
- 3 can openers
- 3 graduated glass beakers for drinking
- 2 boxes of waterproof matches
- 2 buoyant orange plastic buckets
- 2 mid-size orange bailing cups
- 2 multi-purpose plastic containers
- 2 yellow rectangular sponges
- 2 buoyant synthetic ropes
- 2 non-synthetic ropes
- 2 fishing kits with hooks, lines and sinkers
- 2 gaffs with sharp barbed hooks
- 2 sea anchors
- 2 hatches
- 2 rain catchers
- 2 black ink ballpoint pens
- 1 nylon cargo net
- 1 solid lifebuoy
- 1 large hunting knife
- 1 sewing kit
- 1 first-aid kit
- 1 signalling mirror
- 1 pack of filter-tipped Chinese cigarettes
- 1 large dark chocolate bar
- 1 survival manual
- 1 compass
- 1 notebook
- 1 boy with a complete set of light clothing but for one lost shoe
- 1 spotted hyena
- 1 Bengal tiger
- 1 lifeboat
- 1 ocean
- 1 God
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