Summarizer - Life of Pi

Life of Pi

Yann Martel

318/THE END

Throughout the chapters Richard Parker aka RP and Pi work out an uneasy living arrangement. Pi slowly trains RP until he's master of the lifeboat and RP understands it. Pi is often thinking about not coming back alive, although them two seem to do well for a while during the journey. Pi gets used to sharks and brings a larger one on the boat to fight against RP and also a school of flying fish falls on to their boat luckily. Unfortunately a huge storm hits the boat and Pi is forced to go to RP's territory to not drown. He spends the whole day and surprisingly survives but the whole boat is wrecked and most of the food is gone. He gains some cleverness and survival skills but although remembers he lost his parents and is left alone with a man eating tiger. Later on Pi notices an oil tanker but instead of the oil tanker saving them it almost kills them because it didn't see them and passes on without seeing them. Some time later he sees a huge garbage pile and takes out a vine bottle out and puts in a message. After part 2, Pi runs into another castaway who tries to kill him but thankfully RP kills the castaway and saves Pi. Later on they land on an island entirely made out algae and they fully recover and freshen themselves up. They find out that the island is carnivorous and leave as soon as possible. They finally land in Brazil but RP goes to the jungle with hardly saying goodbye. Later on people interview Pi about the shipwreck but more get the story about how he survived, instead of Pi telling the in some way said true story he says the story based on humans. At the end Pi asks which story is better.