Sunday, January 18, 2015

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel is a Tamil boy from Pondicherry and son of a zoo keeper.  At the age of 16, Pi, his family, and their animals to North America on a Japanese cargo ship.  Their ship sink and Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra, and a 450-pound Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker.  Not being prepared for the shipwreck, Pi and his animals have no food but the salty Pacific Ocean water surrounding them on all sides.  Will Pi survive with the wild animals?
Jean L., grade 8