Life of Pi Storyboard (Activity- MWL-A266) final
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- Life of Piby Yann Martel
- In India, I lived in Pondicherry. My father runs a zoo, and I spend a lot of time thinking about animals because they are usually present. However, zoology is only one of my interests; I also enjoy religion. I was born a Hindu, then converted to Catholicism at the age of fourteen, and then to Islam at the age of fifteen. I'm a curious, happy, and all-around wonder of a human being...
- The municipality no longer supports the zoo, so I decided to move to Canada, where the family's animals would be sold as well.
- A writer seeking a story idea interviews Pi Patel, a South Asian-Canadian. They were brought together by Pi's late father's old friend Francis, whom Pi refers to as Mamaji, who knew Pi's family while they lived in Pondicherry, India, when the writer met Mamaji for the first time. Pi then continues to tell him about his life.
- Pi's parents decide to evacuate the family to Canada because of the political unrest in India; on June 21, 1977, they set sail in a cargo ship with a crew and numerous cages full of zoo animals.
- One night aboard their Japanese cargo ship in the middle of the ocean, a fierce and devastating storm smashes their cargo ship and sinks nearly everything that Pi holds dear. The crewmembers throw him into a lifeboat. Pi clings to a lifeboat and persuades Richard Parker, a tiger, to join him, but he soon finds himself alone with a zebra, an orangutan, and a hyena, all of whom appear to be in shock. His family is no longer with him. As the storm subsides, Pi mulls over his precarious condition.
- The days pass slowly, and the passengers in the lifeboat coexist cautiously. Pi had an encounter with another blind castaway while suffering from a spell of temporary blindness brought on by dehydration. Richard Parker kills the blind man who attacks Pi with the intention of eating him. Soon after, the boat arrives to a weird island with trees growing right from the flora, with no soil. Pi and Richard Parker spend some time here, resting in their boat during the night and touring the island during the day. Pi comes into a large colony of meerkats sleeping in trees and freshwater ponds. Pi discovers human teeth in the fruit of a tree one day and concludes that the island eats people.
- He and Richard Parker return to sea and eventually wash up on a Mexican beach. Richard Parker flees, and the villagers transport Pi to the hospital. Two officials from the Japanese Ministry of Transport question Pi about his experience at sea in the hopes of learning more about the ship's fate. Pi relates the story as described above, but the doubting men remain unsatisfied. So he tells it again, substituting humans for the animals: a voracious cook for the hyena, a sailor for the zebra, and his mother for the orangutan. Officials point out that the two reports are identical and that the second is significantly more likely. They praise Pi for spending so much time with an adult tiger in their final report.
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