Life of Pi - Pavitran

             The storybook that I read was Life of Pi. And yes, I did read it before the movie was released. Life of Pi is a Canadian fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. This book was recommended to me by my primary school teacher. I couldn’t really recall what her name was.

 

             The story is basically about Pi Patel surviving is lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a male Bengal tiger nicknamed Richard Parker. Pi’s dad decided to move to Canada for specific reasons (to sell the zoo animals). So, his family board on a Japanese cargo ship with the animals and out of the blue, there is a storm, followed by a shipwrecking. Pi was the only one to survive together with the animals mentioned above.

 

            Pi Patel is a vegetarian raised in India. He got his name from a famous swimming pool in France. His schoolmates always teased him by calling him Pissing (funny). Pi also memorized the value of pi to the hundredths of values. At the time of the story he is sixteen years old. There are many moral values we can learn from Pi. First off, he is very passionate. He loves to swim. Besides that, he is a resilient young man. No matter how much his schoolmates tease him, he excels in his academic performances. In addition to that, he is very courageous/brave. He manages to survive a shipwreck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, all by himself with an aggressive hyena and a tiger at the age of sixteen! Enough said.

 

            As a conclusion, Pi Patel has so many good values in him. He is a very good role model for others.