Book Review: Life of Pi

Review by: Kevin Aceves
Rating: **** out of 5
Life of Pi
By Yann Martel
The book Life of Pi is a novel that was written by Yann Martel. Yann Martel published this book in 2001 and it was published in Canada by Random House of Canada and it was first U.S edition. The book has 319 pages and this novel won a Gold Man Booker Prize. This novel was about a boy named Piscine Patel. When he went to school he wanted everyone to call him Pi. He is a son of a zookeeper and his whole family is religions. His religion is Christian and Islam his whole family is from India. This novel is about a kid named Piscine Patel and at his age of sixteen his family and their zoo animal emigrate from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. Then the boat sinks and his companies are a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan, and a 450 pounds tiger. That’s all he has in the life boat with him. After the novel continues his only left with Richard Parker the tiger.
The main characters of this novel are Piscine Patel and Richard Parker. The minor characters of the novel are Pi’s father, Pi’s mother, Ravi, Satish Kumar, Mr. Satish Kumar, father Martin, Tomohiro Okamoto, and Atsuro Chiba. Well Pi and Richard Parker travel a lot from India to Canada and from Canada to México. They travel in a boat by there self so they new a lot of stuff about them self’s. Pi and Richard Parker had a lot of problem because they didn’t have a lot of food for a lot of days. Another problem that they had was that Pi had to go to the water and a shark was about to kill him, but Richard Parker the tiger help him by hitting the shark in his mouth with his claw. My favorite character of this novel was Pi because since Pi is the main character of the novel I had the chances to know him more than everyone else and me and him have a lot of things in comment like for example, “Bananas don’t float.” There are asking him a question and he is trying to get away with it by changing the subject and this is what I always do with my family because I want to get away with some question’s sometimes not all the time.
My opinion of this novel is that is very good and I like it because it had a lot of adventure and because it’s cool to learn about a novel and how a human could get a long with a tiger. My favorite part of the novel is when Richard Parker saves Pi because I really like the way that Richard Parker the tiger save’s a human’s live and the one think that I can’t believe is how they communicate to one another. My least favorite part of the novel is when Pi and Richard Parker had food for some days and Pi almost died because he went to get food from him and Richard Parker the tiger.
I will recommend this book to any person of any age because this is not an age book. I will also recommend this book to boys and girls because any genre could read this book. I will also recommend this book to a person that likes to read adventures book and cools books.