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Study GuideLife of Pi by Yann MartelFor the online version of BookRags' life of Pi Study Guide , including complete copyright information, please visit: Information 2000-2013 BookRags, Inc. ALL RIGHTS Guide1IntroductionIntroductionWhat is faith? What is friendship? What is fiction? life of Pi explores these questions in the tale of a devoutly religiousIndian boy nicknamed Pi who becomes stranded on a lifeboat with an unrestrained 450-pound Bengal tiger as his onlycompanion. Pi draws upon his knowledge of wild animal training--his father was a zookeeper back in India--to establishan uneasy peace between himself and the tiger, which he sees as his only possibility for novel, published in the United States by Harvest/Harcourt, is a unique blend of religious exploration, practicalzookeeping advice, meditation on the nature of truth, and shipwreck survival tale.

Indian characters and settings. In addition to the research he conducted in India, Martel spent a year researching zoology and religion after returning to Canada. The novel he wrote, Life of Pi, was released in Canada in 2001 and proved to be Martel's breakthrough work. The book

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