A New Life

                                                                              Life of Pi
                                                                         By Yann Martel

Authors note: I wrote this paragraph telling what the cause and effect of the story Life of Pi is and what would happen if the main event never happened.

               

In the book Life of Pi, Pi is a teenage Indian boy who grew up on a zoo in northern India where he learned to love animals, religions and school. His family ends up needing to move to Canada and has too sell their zoo and all of its animals. The family has to ride on the cargo ship to deliver the animals too various zoos all over the world and go to their new home in Canada. Because of this ship, Pi’s entire life changes forever, the cause of this is the ship sinks and Pi is stuck on a life boat with a tiger, a hyena, an orangutan and a zebra. The effect that this has on Pi’s life is he had to endure many hardships of the likes he had never faced, Lack of food, lack of companionship and lack of comfort. If the ship had never sunk the story would still be about Pi’s life changing, the change would just be less drastic. For example, Pi’s transition from zoo life to normal house living and from Indian to Canadian culture.