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Yann Martel's Life of Pi Chapter Summary. Find summaries for every chapter, including a Life of Pi Chapter Summary Chart to help you understand the book.
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- Chapters 7–9
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- Yann Martel
- 2001
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- Author's Note
- Part One (Toronto and Pondicherry): Chapters 1–6
- Part One: Chapters 7–20
- Part One: Chapters 21–36
- Part Two (The Pacific Ocean): Chapters 37–42
- Part Two: Chapters 43–47
- Part Two: Chapters 48–57
- Part Two: Chapters 58–62
- Part Two: Chapters 63–82
- Part Two: Chapters 83–94
The author, writing himself into the text as a character, tells us the origin of the book. During a trip to India in 1996, the author met by chance a man named Francis Adirubasamy, who told him a story. Back in his native Canada, the author called the protagonist of the story, Mr. Patel, who told him his version over a series of meetings, backing i...
Mr. Patel, now a middle-aged man, says he has suffered a great deal in life. He partakes in zoological and religious studies, loves Canada, but misses India and Richard Parker, and he mentions his stay at a hospital in Mexico. Mr. Piscine Molitor Patel was named after the Piscine Molitor in Paris, the favorite pool of a family friend, Francis Adiru...
Pi remembers his favorite teacher, Mr. Satish Kumar, an atheist communist. Pi says he was born into Hinduism and still embraces the Hindu philosophy of life, but that at age fourteen, he became a Christian after hearing the story of Christ, and at age fifteen, a Muslim after observing a baker, also called Satish Kumar, praying. He describes the day...
Pi recounts the day the priest, imam, and pandit with whom he had been practicing his various religions demanded Pi chose a single faith. He narrates the occasion when he introduced the two Mr. Kumars to a zebra at the zoo. His father moved his family to Canada, bringing some of the zoo animals in the cargo ship where the family set sail. The autho...
On the deck of the ship, Pi notices that it is raining, and the ship is listing. Some crewmen put a life jacket on him and throw him over the side. Pi falls on a lifeboat and a zebra jumps on it, pushing the boat onto the water. The tiger named Richard Parker boards the lifeboat and Pi, scared, throws himself into the water. After seeing sharks, Pi...
Pi, hoping to be rescued soon, remains on the lifeboat but far away from the animals. The hyena races around the zebra, but then vomits and nestles behind it. Night falls and Pi hears noises from the animals on the lifeboat and in the water. The next day, Pi thinks about his family and notices the orangutan looking for its own in the water. Pi sees...
Pi recounts how, due to a mix-up, the tiger was named after the hunter, Richard Parker, who inadvertently captured it as a cub. To keep away from the tiger, Pi builds a raft and tethers it to the lifeboat. When the tiger kills the hyena and moves toward him, Pi throws it a rat and escapes to the raft. After the tiger makes a noise expressing harmle...
Pi reads a survival manual he found and goes back to the lifeboat. He sets solar stills into the ocean, to transform salt water into fresh water, and improves his raft. When some flying fish fall into the lifeboat, Pi, a vegetarian, hesitantly kills and eats one. Later, Pi feeds the tiger a fish and gives it fresh water. He realizes it has been a w...
Pi busies himself with tasks: he fishes and feeds himself and the tiger, keeps the vessels clean and functioning, and stimulates his mind with praying, writing, and resting. He starts to train the tiger using the whistle and a turtle shell for a shield. Read a full Summary & Analysis of Part Two: Chapters 63–82
A storm forces Pi into the lifeboat and destroys the raft. An oblivious tanker nearly runs them over. Pi seals a message in a bottle and throws it in the ocean. Later, he goes blind and encounters a French castaway, who boards the lifeboat intending to cannibalize him but is killed by the tiger. After Pi regains his vision, he and the tiger go asho...
Part 1, Chapters 1-11 Summary and Analysis. PDF Cite Share. Greg Beatty, Ph.D. | Certified Educator. Chapter 1. Summary. This chapter shifts around a bit in time as Pi attempts to recover...
Life of Pi: Chapter 1 Summary & Analysis. Next. Chapter 2. Themes and Colors Key. Summary. Analysis. The novel’s main text begins with the adult Pi speaking of his life after the story’s main event. His suffering left him “sad and gloomy,” but he continued his religious practices and zoological studies and slowly became happy again.
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