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Plot summary of "Life of Pi" The life of Pi is about the life of a boy named Piscine, also known as Pi. Pi grows up in India, in his family’s zoo. The first part of the book sets the stage of the novel with Pi’s life in India. His religious experiences, his school life and how it came to be that his family decided to move to Canada, selling off most of their zoo. However, not all goes as planned and the ship sinks, leaving Pi alone on a life raft with an injured zebra, a hunger hyena, and a 400lb Bengal Tiger name Richard Parker, due to a clerical error. As Pi and his animal cohorts travel on the pacific, an Orangutan named orange juice arrives on a raft of bananas. Hyenas are fearsome characters and it kills and eats both the Zebra and the Orangutan, However is soon after killed by Richard Parker (RP). So they’re sailing and Pi is hungry and thirsty and he puts off death with various methods, fishing and purifying water. He begins to develop a relationship with Richard Parker, training him and providing for him. Soon the pair arrives at an Island, which is revealed to be infested with thousands of Meerkats. Pi decides to sleep on the Island, and discovers that it is acidic, he is off put, but decides to stay. The next day as he is exploring he finds a group of trees, with fruits. He takes a fruit, and begins to unravel it. He peels and he peels and eventual he finds a human tooth. As the opens the other fruits he realizes that he has found 32 teeth, a human set. Pi flees from the Island and drifts to the banks of México, where RP runs into the wild. The story ends with Pi being interviewed about the ship, and tells them that the zebra was an injured sailor, the hyena was a warped French cook, and that the orangutan was his mother. Pi asks what story they prefer and like most people would, they say the one with the animals.