In the world's wide spectrum of stories that are either told or written, stories have elements. Their elements are: characters, plot, setting, and etc. No matter the story, what mainly fabricates these events are characters. Reviewing Life of Pi, we are being told about life from a boy's perspective. The boy's name is Piscine Patel and later becomes to be known as Pi (Martel 23). Pi is a boy born in India and his initial religion being Hindu (50). As the story progresses, we acknowledge that he is inspired by his father named Santosh Patel. Santosh Patel has the status of being a father, but also known for his previous status as an owner of a hotel. Due to his interests in nature, he abandoned his position as owner. Eventually, he becomes a worker at the Pondicherry zoo (13). His workings in the zoo inspire Pi to study zoology in college. Furthermore, Santosh Patel also tells Pi to not only care and control wild animals, but also fear them. As the story progresses, Pi has a curiosity of multiple religions. Explicitly Christianity and Islamic religion, and he satisfies his wonders by wondering in a church and a mosque (51). He loves the religion's ideals and adopts Islam and Christianity. His fate soon leads to his family and religious figures having intelligence of Pi's adoption of numerous religions. Initially the people were not keen on the idea of adopting multiple religions, but they had to come to a bittersweet agreement (68-69). Pursuing, India had a political strife and it caused Pi's parents wanting to move to Canada (78-79). They had gone on a ship to voyage to Canada. In the sequence of events, the ship ends up sinking. Pi manages to escape the sinking vessel by grabbing hold of a lifeboat (104-105). A zebra, orangutan, hyena, and a lion manage to escape on the tiny vessel. They all find themselves stranded in open waters without a semblance of land. Subsequently, the hyena kills the zebra and the orangutan(128-133). Henceforth, the lion attacks and murders the hyena. Here, Pi and the lion are all that remain on the lifeboat (155-156). Pi and the lion named Richard Parker; acknowledge that they will have to trust one another in order to survive.
Reviewing the story, we gather a great picture as the story develops. Life of Pi has depicted the will to live. What Life of Pi has shown us is being able to survive through insurmountable odds. In the midst of surviving, all the organisms that were on the lifeboat fought to survive. Pi was a vegetarian and he abandoned vegetarianism to eat fish in order to keep living. Also the orangutan fought for it's life, before being brutally consumed (104-157). In summary, Martel shows us that animals will often do such extraordinary action in order to survive.