Life of Pi Yan, 'Life of Pi' is told from two alternating points of view, the main character Pi in a flashback and Yann Martel himself, who is the "visiting writer" (Martel 101) interviewing Pi many years after the tiger in the boat story. This technique of the intrusive narrator adds the documentary realism to the book, setting up, like a musical counter-point, the myth-making, unreliable narrator, Pi. The reader is left to ponder at the end whether Pi's story is an allegory of another set of parallel events. The novel is a work of fiction set in the summer of 1977 that
Richard Bordeaux Parker Richard Bordeaux Parker Richard Bordeaux Parker (July 3, 1923, in the Fort Stotsenburg, Philippines – January 7, 2011, in Washington, D.C.) was a United States Foreign Service Officer and an expert on the Middle East. Parker served as Ambassador to Algeria, Lebanon and Morocco. He was the brother of David Stuart Parker. Parker was the son of Col. Roscoe Parker, a U.S. Army officer (Cavalry), and grew up in U.S. Army posts across the southwest with a stint in Vermont and another in Kansas. He attended Kansas State University, graduating in 1943. After college, Parker served as an infantry officer