Also on the lifeboat: zoo animals from the cargo hold that include a zebra with a broken leg, a hyena, an orang-utan and a 450-pound tiger, a scenario that holds the reader captivated while bending his or her belief at the same time. Pi's faith is put to its greatest test when he is stranded aboard a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific, after a cargo ship that was supposed to take him to Canada sinks. This is the source of some of the novel's funnier but also personal moments, with Pi trying to be a good Hindu, Christian, and Muslim all at the same time. Yann Martel, photo: CTK Yann Martel's Life of Pi follows the story of a sixteen year-old Indian boy whose desire to find deeper meaning leads him to simultaneously embrace three different religions.
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