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How Did Pi Survive

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Pi’s family makes a decision to move to Canada. During there stay in India, Pi’s father had a zoo and his father taught him about animals. During the trip to India, Pi’s ship that is taking them to India starts sinking. Pi is able to survive and now Pi is alone on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean along with some animals and is questioning his survival: “He would come at me like a typical cat, without a sound. Before I knew it he would seize the back of my neck or my throat and I would be pierced by fang-holes. I wouldn’t be able to speak. The lifeblood would flow out of me unmarked by a final utterance. Or he would kill me by clubbing me with one of his great paws, breaking my neck. ‘I’m going to die,’ I blubbered through quivering lips. Oncoming

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