Life of Pi won the 2002 Man Booker Prize (among other honors) and was adapted to the screen in the Oscar-winning film by Ang Lee. The thing which kept going through my head was how I would never be able to survive living on a lifeboat for that long, let alone with a tiger in the boat as well. YANN MARTEL was born in Spain in 1963 of Canadian parents. Let's just say I spent about 20 minutes after reading the book frantically looking online to see if there was an answer or explanation to the ending. The life of pi is cited in 14 different citation styles, including MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, APA, ACS, and many others.

I thought the ending was so interesting but I don't want to give anything away so I won't talk about it in detail. Create manual citation Learn how to create in-text citations and a full citation/reference/note for The life of pi by Yann Martel using the examples below. I would mentally cheer whenever he found food or fresh water. I was properly rooting for Pi in this book, and I found myself engulfed into this world of desperation mixed with serenity. I thought it was so beautifully crafted and written, full of rich and gorgeous imagery which really captured my imagination. This is actually a book I wish I had picked up earlier because I would have been able to experience its excellence before now! I loved this book, and I really couldn't stop reading. Review: I know, I know, another book which everyone has read which I have only gotten round to reading now. Its a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. As a boy, Pi practices not only Hinduism but also the teachings of Christianity and Islam in his eyes, all different yet equal ways of knowing God. Pi is stranded on a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific for 227 days, with only an adult Bengal tiger for company, so his ordeal involves not just avoiding starvation but also protecting himself from Richard Parker. Īfter the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. It is narrated by Pi (Piscine) Molitor, who grows up as the son of a zoo manager in India.

Life of Pi by Yann Martel