Life of Pi Orange Juice. A tiger has been hiding under the boat's tarpaulin: it's Richard Parker, who had boarded the lifeboat with ambivalent assistance from Pi himself some time before the hyena attack. Suddenly emerging from his hideaway, Richard Parker kills and eats the hyena. Frightened, Pi constructs a small raft out of rescue flotation devices, tethers it to the bow of the boat and makes it his place of retirement. He begins conditioning Richard Parker to take a submissive role by using food as a positive reinforcer, and seasickness as a punishment mechanism, while using a whistle for signals. Soon, Pi
Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger and xenophobia form part of everyday life. The novel has been published in Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, France, Hungary, Italy and will be published in the fall of 2010 by Knopf in the US. Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger () is the second novel by Swedish writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri. It was published in 2006 and has received several important literary prizes. It was awarded 2006 year's P O Enquist Prize. Later the same year "Montecore" was nominated for the August literary award. "Montecore" also received Sveriges Radio's Romanpris award for