Pi, brought up as a Hindu, discovers Christianity, then Islam, choosing to practice all three religions simultaneously. We learn that Pis father once ran the Pondicherry Zoo, teaching Pi and his brother, Ravi, about the dangerous nature of animals by feeding a live goat to a tiger before their young eyes. Pi is named after the Piscine Molitor, a Parisian swimming club with two pools that Adirubasamy used to frequent. He describes how Francis Adirubasamy, a close business associate of his fathers and a competitive swimming champion, taught him to swim and bestowed upon him his unusual name. He explains that he has suffered intensely and found solace in religion and zoology. Pi narrates from an advanced age, looking back at his earlier life as a high school and college student in Toronto, then even further back to his boyhood in Pondicherry. Part One is narrated in the first person by Pi. The author then shifts into the story itself, but not before telling his reader that the account will come across more naturally if he tells it in Pis own voice. There, while sipping coffee in a caf in the town of Pondicherry, he met an elderly man named Francis Adirubasamy who offered to tell him a story fantastic enough to give him faith in God. PLOTIn an Authors Note, an anonymous author figure explains that he traveled from his home in Canada to India because he was feeling restless.
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