Life of Pi #1

At the beginning of Life of Pi, Pi’s father takes him and his brother Ravi to watch Richard Parker devour a goat. He does this to teach Pi, and Ravi a lesson of how dangerous animals can be. This is ironic because the whole story is about Pi living alone with Richard Parker on a small lifeboat. In act II, Pi makes a reference to what is father taught him: “Truly I was to be the next goat. I had a wet, trembling, half-drowned, heaving and coughing three-year-old adult Bengal tiger in my lifeboat.” (p.110) From the way Pi describes Richard Parker we can see he his terrified for the adventure he is about to experience and how the lesson his father taught him has had an impact on him.