The film Life of Pi is a fantastic movie telling the amazing adventures of Pi Patel at sea. Read the plot of the film and then choose the correct option in the comprehension questions.
A writer, looking for an idea for his second book, visits a famous Indian storyteller, Pi Patel, in Montreal, Canada. Patel has an amazing tale that will make the writer believe in God. Patel is delighted to tell his story.
He was born in India in the territory of Pondicherry. His father was a zoo owner and named his son Piscine Molitor after a swimming pool in France. Piscine is bullied at school with cries of “Pissing Patel”, and he decides to change his name ot “Pi”, after the mathematical symbol. An unusual child, Pi is fascinated by religion, and he decides to add Christianity and Islam to his family’s Hindu faith. He is also fascinated by one of the zoo’s animals, a Bengal tiger which, like him, has a strange name, “Richard Parker”.
Economic and political problems push Pi’s father into selling the zoo and deciding to emigrate to Canada, with his wife an Pi and Pi’s elder broter, plus a number of animals. The 16-year-ol Pi boards a Japanese cargo ship with his family and most importantly Richard Parker.
As the family queue for a meal in the ship’s kitchen one day, the cook insults Pi’s mother. Pi’s father attacks the cook. The ship encounters a fierce storm while sailing over the deepests part of the world’s ocean, and it starts to sink. Pi is on deck watching the storm and he doesn’t realize the terrible danger on the ship. He tries to save his family, but a crew member throws him into a lifeboat, occupied apparently by just the cook. The ship disappears quickly beneath the waves. Pi quickly discovers that he is sharing the lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan and a hyena…and the Bengal tiger. Pi’s faith is then put to the test.