Life of Pi Notes
Life of Pi Part 2, Chapter 37 Summary
How It All Goes Down * Chapter 37 opens with the sentence, "The ship sank" (2.37.1). * Pi doesn't tell us how or why yet – but he's in a lifeboat, in the wind and the rain, encouraging Richard Parker the tiger, who is in the water, to swim up to him. * Pi throws Richard Parker a lifebuoy and just then realizes he probably shouldn't invite strange tigers into his lifeboat. * Alas, Richard Parker jumps into the lifeboat, and Pi jumps overboard. Life of Pi Part 2, Chapter 38 Summary
How It All Goes Down * Pi moves back in time a little bit – he explains the events leading up to Chapter 37's dramatic opening. * Pi tells us the ship sails with no problems for days. (Though Ravi saw men working on the engines and said something was wrong with them.) * Pi hears an explosion during the night. He shakes Ravi to get him up, but Ravi turns looks at Pi sleepily and turns over. * Pi also decides not to wake his parents. * Once on the deck, the wind and rain don't seem that bad. But one side of the ship is listing badly, the ship is groaning, and no one's out on the deck. All of a sudden, an Indian wild ox – from the hold below – bolts past. Something is terribly wrong. * Pi finally sees some sailors up on the bridge. They make a quick decision, give Pi a lifejacket, and throw him overboard. Life of Pi Part 2, Chapter 39 Summary
How It All Goes Down * Pi lands on the tarpaulin covering of a lifeboat. He's unhurt but has lost the lifejacket (still has the whistle, though). * A zebra runs across the deck and jumps overboard into the lifeboat as well, missing the tarpaulin, and breaking a bench, but otherwise succeeds in lowering the lifeboat into the water. Life of Pi Part 2, Chapter 40 Summary
How It All Goes Down * We're back to the end of Chapter 37: Richard Parker has pulled himself up into the lifeboat and Pi is in the water. * Pi watches shark fins slice through the
How It All Goes Down * Chapter 37 opens with the sentence, "The ship sank" (2.37.1). * Pi doesn't tell us how or why yet – but he's in a lifeboat, in the wind and the rain, encouraging Richard Parker the tiger, who is in the water, to swim up to him. * Pi throws Richard Parker a lifebuoy and just then realizes he probably shouldn't invite strange tigers into his lifeboat. * Alas, Richard Parker jumps into the lifeboat, and Pi jumps overboard. Life of Pi Part 2, Chapter 38 Summary
How It All Goes Down * Pi moves back in time a little bit – he explains the events leading up to Chapter 37's dramatic opening. * Pi tells us the ship sails with no problems for days. (Though Ravi saw men working on the engines and said something was wrong with them.) * Pi hears an explosion during the night. He shakes Ravi to get him up, but Ravi turns looks at Pi sleepily and turns over. * Pi also decides not to wake his parents. * Once on the deck, the wind and rain don't seem that bad. But one side of the ship is listing badly, the ship is groaning, and no one's out on the deck. All of a sudden, an Indian wild ox – from the hold below – bolts past. Something is terribly wrong. * Pi finally sees some sailors up on the bridge. They make a quick decision, give Pi a lifejacket, and throw him overboard. Life of Pi Part 2, Chapter 39 Summary
How It All Goes Down * Pi lands on the tarpaulin covering of a lifeboat. He's unhurt but has lost the lifejacket (still has the whistle, though). * A zebra runs across the deck and jumps overboard into the lifeboat as well, missing the tarpaulin, and breaking a bench, but otherwise succeeds in lowering the lifeboat into the water. Life of Pi Part 2, Chapter 40 Summary
How It All Goes Down * We're back to the end of Chapter 37: Richard Parker has pulled himself up into the lifeboat and Pi is in the water. * Pi watches shark fins slice through the