zoo animals is what the tiger was in life of pi.
zoo animals is what the tiger was in life of pi.
what is the tiger in life of pi?
zoo animals
pi's father names him piscine molitor patel after the swimming pool in france. in secondary school in pondicherry, he adopts the name "pi" (the greek letter, ) to avoid the sound-alike nickname "pissing patel". he is raised in a hindu family, but at 12 years old, is introduced to christianity and then islam, and decides to follow all three religions as he "just wants to love god". his mother supports his desire to grow, but his rationalist father tries to secularize him. pi's family owns a zoo, and pi takes interest in the animals, especially a bengal tiger named richard parker. after pi gets dangerously close to richard parker, his father forces him to witness the tiger killing a goat.
life of pi (film)
however, pi soon encounters troy (donal logue), the meanest, toughest tiger shark in the ocean, who is not only terrorizing everyone in the reef community, but also has his eye set on cordelia to become his mate. pi confronts troy, only to have him smack pi with his tail. cordelia tells pi that the only dangerous place on the reef is between troy and whatever he wants. she informs him that troy is her problem, and if pi wishes to help her, he won’t interfere. pi and dylan find their way home, where pearl (fran drescher) is excited to see that pi has arrived. she is a fortune teller along with her assistant madge, a sea star and uses a pink pearl that dylan's deceased father gave to her as a crystal ball. pearl reads pi's future and is surprised, saying that he is destined for great things and that the reef is the best place he will be able to find it. pearl then tells pi that he can go anywhere on the reef excluding an old pirate wreck and a forbidden place called "flat bottom". while out on a swim with pearl and dylan, they meet buddy a decorator crab and lou a sawfish. after pearl leaves dylan in charge of showing pi around. pi is told by dylan about nerissa (rob schneider), a wise old hermit loggerhead turtle that lives in the old shipwreck and practices martial arts, leading to rumors that he is a wizard. eventually they stumble upon flat bottom, the open sea which is outside of the wildlife sanctuary free for humans to come with their fishing nets.
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