This novel is about a zookeeper’s son called Pi Patel or to be exact, Piscine Molitor Patel, which shares a lifeboat with a hyena, a broken leg zebra, a female orang-utan called Orange Juice and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger called Richard Parker, after the sinking of a cargo ship. The story was started with how Pi got his name and his childhood life in zoo. Then, the story slowly carries on with the reason why he needs to leave India and that is how the main plot of the story started from there where the cargo ship sinks and how he shares his life with other animal survivors.
I read a book review about this book wrote by one of the readers and she told us that her favourite part will be the last few pages of the book. I think I’m quite agree with her. I like how the author relates another different version of story which involves of a Taiwanese sailor, a cook, Pi’s mother and himself with the original version of story which involves of him and a bunch of animal survivors. I just can’t control myself to laugh at it when every time I read this part:
“So the Taiwanese sailor is the zebra, his mother is the orang-utan, the cook is…the hyena – which means he’s the tiger!”
Well, I couldn’t give too many opinions whether this is a good book for recommendation because I never like to read books about stories happening on the sea. One of the famous sea stories which I read when I was a kid is ‘Moby Dick’ and I don’t like it or maybe I avoided reading that book without my knowledge too. So, I thought Life of Pi may probably change my mind about it. However, I like to read stories about how people try their own different ways to strive to survive in their life which we may probably can learn from it. So, I would say that I quite like this book although it might not be a book that I will put it into my recommendation list.
Ratings: 6.5/10
