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Life of PiPi Patel is on a ship to a whole new world. Hes difference his whole world behind except the zoo, its on card with him. When awoken by a sound, Pi goes to explore. He finds that the ship is sinking and before he can wake his family he is thrown into a lifeboat. A zebra falls into the lifeboat, breaking its leg. Without truly realizing what he is doing, Pi helps Richard Parker onto the lifeboat. Then he realizes, he is on a lifeboat with a 450 pound Bengal tiger.Pi builds a raft out of oars and life jackets so that he can stick out a safe distance from the lifeboat. The lifeboat doesnt seem to have the tiger on it at all. Just a zebra and a hyaena and orangutan. The hyena attacks both zebra and orangutan and then the tiger appears. He is sleek and tranquilize about his approach. None the less, Pi Patel is now alone on a lifeboat with Richard Parker. He wonders how he will survive with a tiger.Pi decides that it would be best to keep the tiger alive, to act as the of i mport. He trains Richard Parker to control which space belongs to who. Pi uses a solar power water sink in for fresh water and leanes for food. He feeds himself and the tiger. This keeps them at more of a alpha relationship because Richard Parker knows where his food and water come from. When there is no fish to caught and no more supplies, the only option is to starve for that day.Finally, Pi and Richard Parker bestow on an island. It is a very mysterious place. The trees seem to grow peachy out of the algae and the meerkats do no seem to be hunted of anything. There are fresh water ponds and for some reason Richard Parker ever returns to the lifeboat at night to sleep. Pi finds out the algae is acidic and thats why Richard Parker sleeps in the boat at night.