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Mamaji teaches Pi to swim
This is significant as manaji teaches his first disciple in Pi. This skill later becomes crucial in Pi's life. -
Father teaches Pi and Ravi about animals
Pi's father attempts to teach Pi about the animals and how dangerous they can be. Pi's dad ties a goat to the bars and lets nature take its course. The tiger at the goat right in front of them. This culminated in Pi's survival to know his limits. -
Piscine turns into Pi
Pi was constantly bullied because of his name Piscine. It was then that he changed his name to Pi by writing it on the board and always introducing himself as Pi -
Religion is key
At a very young age, Pi comes across his first encounter with new religions. It is a lot to take in at this young age but it shows his dedication to religion. -
Taming a tiger
Pi devises a plan on taming Richard Parker as he thinks that if they are going to survive there must be a mutual agreeance between the two parties. Eventually Pi does tame Richard Parker and they become very close freinds and develop almost a mutualism betw -
Goodbye India
Pi's family deides to sell the Pondicherry Zoo and go to Canada. For Pi Canada is the land of unkown he knows nothing about Canada but that it's cold. Also they are selling the zoo and the animals and literally picking up and leaving India with short notice. In the book they say that "Canada meant absolutely nothing to us. It was like Timbuktu, by definition a place permanantly far away". -
Boat sinks
The TsimTsim sinks during a storm that resulted in Pi ending up on the boat in the first place. The storm was gigantic it Pi wanted to check it out so he went up to the deck. The sailors threw him onto the lifeboat with the hyena and his journey started. The zebra leaped onto the boat. He then saved Richard Parker thinking he was a person. Lastly he saved the monkey when she floated over on a pile of bananas. -
Tiger and Pi
Only Pi and Richard Parker are left on the lifeboat. Richard Parker has ran out of prey. Pi is slowly becoming more and more apealing to Pichard Parker's stomach. Now Pi has to find more ways to survive and feed this massive of a carnivore. Both of their lives are at steak and this is when Pi's creativity kicks into gear. -
Pi's raft
Pi creates a raft in attempts to stay away from Richard Parker and establish a territoty as his own. He built out of oars and life jackets from the boat and this proved to be a crucial key to his survival at times when Richard Parker would get on edge. -
Taming a tiger
Pi devises a plan on taming Richard Parker as he thinks that if they are going to survive there must be a mutual agreeance between the two parties. Eventually Pi does tame Richard Parker and they become very close freinds and develop almost a mutualism betw -
The island
Pi and Richard Parker land on an island they found meerkats and ate as many plants that he could eat. Richard Parker was enjoying himself to but would always go back to the boat at night. This island saved Pi from starvation because of the massive abundance of vegatation. -
Leaving the island
Pi choses to sleep in a tree on one night and drops a meerkat. He then realizes that the island is carnivorous when he sees a human tooth within one of the plants. This saved his life because if he didn't know then he could have died with one accident. -
The journey ends
Pi and Richard Parker land on the shore of Mexico. Richard Parker goes of into the jungle without saying goodbye to Pi. He states "...Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, feirce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared from my life forever".