study on life of pie

Presented by- zenith group
Sanghamitra S. Parihar
Karishma kakkad
Palash Goyal
Hina Agarwal
Juhi Pawar

 Piscine Patel (Pi) – The main character and narrator of the story in the
novel, Pi is a teenage Indian boy.
 Richard Parker – The 450 pound tiger and 227 day companion to Pi on
the lifeboat
 The Author – Only present as a voice in the first Chapter (directly) the
author here is a narrator as well as a man seeking a story, which he
finds in Pi.
 Francis Adirubasamy - A close friend of the Patel family and a world
class swimmer, it is Francis who is responsible for Pi’s name as well as
sending the author to Toronto to hear Pi’s story.
 Pi’s Father – A zookeeper with strong political views and a habit of
teaching his son all that he can about animals and their psychology. He
dies after the ship sinks.

 Pi’s Mother – A caring woman and a natural educator, Pi’s mother reads a lot
and shares what she can with her son. In Pi’s first story she dies on the boat.
 Ravi – Pi’s brother
 Satish Kumar' – Pi’s biology teacher and a masterful scientist who teaches Pi
much of his thirst for knowledge. He is a natural atheist and teaches Pi the faith
of an atheist as well as the desire to study zoology in college.
 Father Martin – A catholic priest who introduces Pi to Jesus Christ and the
Catholic faith. They meet often and talk of Christ’s works, breeding in Pi the
desire to accept multiple faiths.
 Tomohiro Okamoto and Atsuro Chiba – The two men from the Japanese
Ministry of Transport who arrive on behalf of the Tsimtsum sinking to question
Pi about his story of survival. They do not immediately believe him but consent
to writing his story up in their report.


 The novel begins with the author describing his travels to India, where he
meets a man named Francis Adirubasamy in a coffeehouse in Pondicherry
 After which he refers the author to Piscine Patel in Toronto.
 His father is the proprietor of the Pondicherry Zoo, Pi’s mother is an avid
reader and introduces to him numerous literary works from which he learns
the joys of numerous schools of thought. His school is filled with amazing
teachers, one of whom, Mr. Kumar is an inspiration to Pie.
 Pi grew up a Hindu, but discovered the Catholic faith at age 14 from a priest by
the name of Father Martin.
 He is soon baptized. He then meets Mr. Kumar, a Muslim of some standing and
converts to Islam.
 His Father wanted to sell the animals abroad in return for a healthy earning, so
they planned to travel to Canada.


•The animals are loaded onto the same boat that the family will take to
reach Winnipeg, Canada. On the journey to North America, the boat
sinks.
•As the only survivor of the shipwreck, he’s stuck in a lifeboat with a
dying zebra and a hyena. Pi sees another survivor f loating in the water -
“Richard Parker” is actually the 400 pound tiger from his father’s zoo
•So, upon reentering the boat, he wedges the tarpaulin up with an oar
and decides he might survive if he can stay on top and keep Richard
Parker beneath it. Over the next week an Orangutan arrives as well and
the four animals interplay carefully, eating each other until there is only
Richard Parker left.

Over the course of the next 7 months aboard the lifeboat, Pi hides on a makeshift
raft behind the boat and begins the process of taming Richard Parker with a whistle
and treats from the sea, as well as marking his portion of the boat.
 He begins to get close to the tiger, developing the kind of bond a zookeeper does
with his menagerie.
 The two come across an island made of algae. They disembark and Pi begins eating
the algae, regaining his strength during the day and sleeping on the boat. Richard
Parker regains his strength from eating the meerkats who live on the island.
 Eventually, Pi realizes that they leave at night because of an acid produced by the
island during the night hours. He eventually notices a tooth among the algae,
evidence of another man having died on the island. They leave quickly as the island
is apparently carnivorous.

 Finally, after more time spent floating along in the ocean, Pi sights land in Mexico
and disembarks. Richard Parker immediately runs off into the woods and Pi is
recovered by two men from the shipping company who owned the boat that sank
with his family on it.
 He relates to them the story of his 227 days on the boat, but they do not quite
believe his fantastic tale of surviving with a Bengal Tiger and meeting a blind man
in the ocean.
 So, Pi relays to them a second story instead of his mother, a sailor with a broken
leg and a cannibalistic cook, with no animals and no magical islands this time
around.

• Throughout the novel, Pi makes his belief in and love of God clear—it is a
love profound enough that he can transcend the classical divisions of
religion, and worship as a Hindu, Muslim, and Christian.
•Pi, although amazed by the possibility of lacking this belief, still respects
the atheist, because he sees him as a kind of believer.
• Pi’s vision of an atheist on his death bed makes it clear that he assumes the
atheist’s form of belief is one in God, without his realizing it until the end.
Pi never seems to doubt his belief in God while enduring his hardships, but
he certainly focuses on it less.

This theme is clear throughout his ordeal—he must eat meat, he must take life, two
things which had always been anathema to him before his survival was at stake.
 When Pi tells the second version of his story to the Japanese men, this theme is
highlighted even more vividly, because he parallels his survival instincts in the
second story to Richard Parker in the first—it is he, when he must survive, who
steals food, he who kills the Frenchman.
 If the first version of the story is seen as a fictionalized version of the second, the
very fact that he divides himself from his brutal survival instinct shows the power of
that instinct.

 Pi survives one crazy journey. He is out to sea for 227
days and conquers famine, blindness and near death
on numerous occasions. However, this is not without
an incredible battle.
 This is survival of the fittest to the extreme and none
of the creatures are planning on letting go without a
fight.
The Significance of Storytelling
•Essentially, the author, Martel explains how he has come to hear the story
of Pi, who then tells his story about his journey at sea with Richard Parker
and the other animals.
•However, at the end it is revealed that this was actually a story to explain
the “true” story that he was surrounded by humans who committed those
harsh deeds as a way to survive. Finally, the Interrogators are left to pick and
choose which story to tell.

 A theme, and also a recurring motif, is the bringing
together of science and religion as equal ways of
understanding the world.
 Pi’s zoo upbringing and his relationship to the
animals provide a scientific understanding of the
world. His multiple religious philosophies and
relationship with God provide a spiritual
understanding of the world. He must combine his
knowledge of science with his faith in order to
survive on the lifeboat.

 The captivating story of the Pi’s magical journey on a lifeboat with a
Royal Bengal Tiger teaches about faith in oneself and in god.
 The journey is very similar to the journey of an entrepreneur. There is
a lifeboat and a raft (the start-up), a tiger (the unwanted venture
capitalists angel investors), the sea (the market), ships (commercial
success)... There is also time (the factors that we cannot control and
therefore should stop worrying about; there's enough worry on
matters that we can sort out). Let us look at some of the lessons the
movie teaches the entrepreneurs.

Life of Pi is a story of perseverance and a story of not giving up, even
in the hardest of conditions. Pi didn’t give up hope and he kept
moving. Similarly, for an entrepreneur, it’s important to remember,
that the darkest days are not going to last. It’s important, not to give
up on your dreams and give up on life.

•When Pi reached the mysterious
floating island, it seemed like he has
reached an oasis of life with abundant
food, water and shelter.
•But he didn’t settle for something
average as he believed there could be
something much better available.
•In business, it’s important to keep
moving and not get satisfied with
temporary success. It’s important to
keep an eye on the final destination.

 Despite those feelings we all have at some point in
our lives that nothing is good and that nothing
will ever be good again there is always something
to be grateful for.

After the whale incident, he decided to start staying with the tiger on
the boat and also set out marking their territories and setting some
rules.
•He started developing a bond with him. Mr. Parker is both a co-founder
and a competitor for Pi in his entrepreneurial journey.
•An entrepreneur needs to co-exist with both co-founders and with
competition in the market.

 When Pi was thrown into the Sea on the lifeboat with
limited stock of resources, he found a handbook to
help him plan for the time on the lifeboat.
 If you are an entrepreneur, think of the handbook as
your business plan. It’s important to keep it handy
and work according to the plan and of course, keep
referring to it, when you’re in doubt and monitor
progress as you go along.

•Pi’s father Santosh Patel says this to
Pi at the dining table, when he was
getting curious about different
religions and wanted to follow all of
them at the same time.
•It’s difficult to follow different
paths at the same time, as many of
them are conflicting in nature and
often create confusion and make it
difficult to stay focused and at times,
lead to wastage of crucial resources.

•Pi Patel was born with the name PiscinaMolitor Patel, of which everyone
started making fun.
• He worked hard on a rebranding exercise. He decided to remember the value
of Pi expressed in several hundred decimal places to tell that his name is
derived from the Greek letter.
• So, if you have to work on creating a new brand name of changing your
existing brand name for that matter, work on telling a good story which
captures the imagination of the audience.
•The story makes the brand name stick.

 LIFE IS ALL ABOUT STRUGGLE,struggle for those who wants to survive as
a human even at worst situations.
 All religions are equal and the true faith in God(of every religion),let oneself
out of every disaster of life even if everybody left.
 The great power is in the hands of humans,PI felt his father was right about
animals he cannot expect an animal to say thanks or good bye just because
he saved(a tiger).
 At several stages of life,there are situations when you have to stand
alone(never forget that you are born alone and you will die alone)sometimes
you loose your dear ones but those are the moments which make you
survive as a real fighter after getting through all the difficulties.
 As rightly said by Pi-the worst situation of grief is when you even did not get
a chance to say thanks or good bye to your dear ones.PI feels extremely sorry
for not thanking his father for all his advice because of them only he FACED
with every challenge.

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