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Plot
Life of Pi tells about Picine Molitor Patel, a multireligious young Indian, gets lost at sea with his 450 pound Bengal Tiger after their ship to Canada sinks in a storm and their survival on a life raft. In the novel, there are three parts.

Martel tells us that the third part of the book has pieces of recording between Mr. Okamoto and Mr. Chiba, workers of the Maratime Department in the Japanese Ministry of Transport, investigating Pi. The two investigators do not believe Pi's "story" (chapter 97). They say that they do not believe it because "bananas don't float." Pi insists that they test it, and so they do. They all find out that bananas do infant float. Mr. Okamoto and Mr. Chiba tell Pi they do not believe his carnivorous island story or his 450 pound Bengal tiger. After awhile, they tell Pi they want the real story. Pi ends up telling the two men a completely different story. In this story, Pi, who in the original story is Richard Parker, is stranded on the life raft with a cook, the hyena, a sailor, the zebra, and his mother, Orange Juice the orangutan. Like the zebra, the sailor brakes his leg jumping into the life raft from the main ship. As his leg is getting infected, the cook says that they have to amputate it in order to save his life. In reality, the cook uses the leg for fish bait a few days later. The sailor later dies, and the cooks starts to eat him. Pi's mother was killed by the cook one day when Pi was not able to pull in turtles because he is too weak. Pi ends up killing the cook with a knife the cook has left out. Like in the original story, Pi eats some of the cook's body. Mr. Chiba and Mr. Okamoto notice how similar the two stories are. The novel ends with Mr. Okamoto's work after investigating Pi. He tells us that the reason the ship sank is impossible to determine. In his work, he does uses pieces from Pi's original story, such as being stranded on a boat with a Bengal Tiger for many days.

Personal Growth Through Adversity
PBS tells us that " Personal growth through adversity," is a major theme in the novel Life of Pi. This theme shows throughout the novel with our main character Picine Patel. We first see this theme appear when Pi's father, Santosh Patel, throws a goat to the zoo's giant four hundred fifty pound Bengal Tiger, Richard Parker. As Richard Parker tears the goat to shreds, Pi learns that the animal is dangerous and he should not play with it. This even makes him a more responsible person. Another example of this theme would be right after the ship to Canada sinks and he is splost at sea with a few zoo Pi has lost everything; food, family, zoo animals, hope. After realizing that he has nothing, he has to become more responsible with himself, the surviving zoo animals and the food rations while stranded on the boat. He changes from being childlike to adult like, hint " personal growth through adversity."

Background
Yann Martel tells PBS.org what his inspiration was to write the novel. Martel shares," The premise came to me from reading a review of a Brazilian novel by a man named Moacyr Scliar, which I forgot about 12 years ago. And it struck me that that's a good premise. I could do something with that. Then I forgot about it. About seven years later I was in India, and India is a country with a lot of animals and a lot of religion And I was a bit lost there, too."

Reception
Many critics have given praise to Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi. Randy Boyagoda tells us," This is a novel of such rare and wondrous story telling that it may, as one character claims, make you believe in God. Can a reader reasonably ask for anything more?" and also says that he is, "breathless." Kislay Prajapati, another critic, says that the novel is " written and described very well." Irma, from NYtimes.com. also said, "I applaud."

Style
Critic, Randy Boyagoda, tells us that the third section of The Life of Pi, " is compromised of a transcript between two Japanese representatives of the shipping company and Pi, recuperating in a Mexican hospital room."

Publication History
According to European Intelligence Wire," Life of Pi has just sold its 3,141,593rd copy."