book review

Life of Pi
I’m guessing you picked this book up for one of the two following reasons, one, you liked the book cover, or the other reason, you were in the mood for a math book, no I’m just messing with you. No, actually this book has nothing to do with math, but the cover does have a meaning you see, Life of Pi by Yann Martel is a story about a small Indian boy, whose dad owns the local zoo, decides to sell it, and decides to move him and his family to Canada, but will he reach his destination or will something occur on the way?
Well the story starts out with Piscine Patel or Pi for short starts out with a small narration about his childhood and his life. During the begin Pi explores 3 religion which are Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam, he says I just want to love god. Pi’s father decides to sell the zoo and move the family to Canada. In the middle of the ocean, the cargo ship on which the family is traveling sinks, the ship was called Tstisuni. Pi manages to find refuge on a lifeboat, though not alone. He shares the small area with a female orangutan named Orange Juice, a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, and a Royal Bengal Tiger by the name of Richard Parker.
Pi manages to construct a raft using supplies aboard the boat, and avoids direct confrontation with Richard Parker by keeping out of the tiger's territory on the deck of the boat, Pi goes temporarily blind, and during this state meets another castaway on a boat traveling like his own. The other man has a French accent, and after a period of a conversation he boards Pi's boat with a view to murder him. As soon as he boards, however, he is killed and devoured by Richard Parker. Soon after they wash ashore upon a strange island, populated by meerkats, and containing pools of fresh water.
After some time, Pi finds a strange tree on the island, and upon examining the fruit, finds human teeth. He realizes that the island is deadly, and he and Richard Parker must leave the island immediately. The lifeboat finally washes up on the beach in Mexico at which point Richard Parker bounds off into the jungle never to be seen again.
Well in my opinion Life of Pi is a very confusing book, as the book follows through; the scenes start to fad in and fade out as it switches from the present to the future. The setting is also confusing as it starts out in India, switches to the ship, the onto a life boat, then onto an Island and so on. The other only book similar to it that I’ve read is Eragon, and Eldest. This book is an okay book for Middle and High scholars.