As the ship falls into the sea, a freed zebra jumps onto the boat with him, breaking its leg as it lands. He tries to find his family, but a member of the crew throws him into a lifeboat. During a storm, the ship founders while Pi is on deck. Pi's family books passage on a Japanese freighter named Tsimtsum. When Pi is 16, his father decides to move the family to Canada, where he intends to settle and sell the zoo animals. His mother supports his desire to grow, but his father, a rationalist, tries to convert him to his own way of thinking. Pi is raised Hindu and vegetarian, but at 12 years old, he is introduced to Christianity and then Islam, and decides to follow all three religions as he "just wants to love God". When Pi tries feeding Richard Parker through the cage bars, his enraged father runs in and tells him that Richard Parker is dangerous and would kill him if it had the chance, and so his father forces Pi to witness Richard Parker killing a goat to prove his point. Pi's family owned a zoo, and Pi took great interest in the animals, especially a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. By the time he reached secondary school, he changed his name to "Pi" (the Greek letter, π) because he was tired of being called "Pissing Patel" (due to the pronunciation of his name). In a flashback, Pi's father named him Piscine Molitor after a swimming pool in France. Spoiler warning: The following contains plot details aboutĪ Canadian novelist named Yann Martel meets an Indian man, Pi Patel, with some knowledge from Pi's late father's friend, known to Pi as "Mamaji", for a good book.
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