Great book!
This book is easy to read, causes you to think, and pushes your imagination! Pi is a great character.
A New Classic
Life of Pi by Yann Martel is one of my favorite books of all time. It is an extremely unique and magnetic novel. The best way to sum it up is a quote from The San Diego Union-Tribune. "Life of Pi may not make you believe in God. But it will make you believe in literature." That quote is absolutely accurate. Life of Pi is magical. It is very much a fairy tale or fable for adults. It is funny, moving and enchanting.
The story is about a 16 year old Indian boy named Pi Patel. His family owns a zoo and are emigrating America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. The ship sinks and Pi ends up being trapped on a life boat with a hyena, an orangutan and a zebra. Oh, and a Bengal tiger... you can't forget the tiger. The plot is very implausible, but Yann Martel manages to make it believable.
A lot of this book deals with religious themes, but don't let that stop you from reading if you are not a religious person. I consider myself an atheist and found the religious themes to be an interesting lens to see through. Yann Martel is a really refreshing writer. I definitely recommend Life of Pi to anyone. It will capture your imagination.
A high school assigned book that isn't boring!
This book was assigned to my English 10 honors class and initially my first thought of this book was that it was going to be completely horrible. However, I am happy to report that it was actually a great story!
This isn't your typical English class book. It is fairly recent, written only a couple of years ago instead of the usual book that was published before 1960! The first part of the book is set in the late 70's in Pondicherry, India. Its about a boy with an unusual name; Piscine (sounds almost exactly like pissing), which is French for swimming pool and because kids teased him about it he shorten it to Pi once he got to high school.
Religion plays a major part in this book, even claiming in the beginning that it will make you a believer in God. Pi's family isn't particulary religious but he starts practicing not one but three religions. Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. All he wants to do is love God. Another major part of the story is that his father is a zoo keeper. Pi knows all about animals and which ones are dangerous and whatnot. Later on, Pi and his family decided to move to Canada and so, his father sells what animals he could to other zoos and some of the other animals ride on the ship with the family to Canada.
We get to the second part. The ship sinks. Without giving away all what happens. I'll say this. I couldn't believe all what Pi has to go through on a lifeboat. With a 450 pound BENGAL TIGER! It really is something to read. And although it was good at that point, I'll admit I didn't keep up with my reading after awhile. One of my reading quizzes proves it!! It was getting closer towards the major test (actually, the night before) and I had to read a little more than 100 pages. I do not think I would have actually read all of it if I hadn't heard the others talking about it in class.
Once Pi gets saved (and don't worry, I'm not giving anything away, because you know he lives as there are present tense scenes, which are confusing at first) we learn of a second story that happened while Pi was on the boat. So, its a story within a story and you're left with a question. What story is the truth?!
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