Life of Pi

Pi was greeted by a few people who cared for him and gave him food. Pi was sent to a briefing station where he was to be interviewed about his journey but also to make sure he wasn't carrying any diseases or he wasn't faking the whole thing. While he was there two men interviewed him and found his story to be quite impossible. They had no proof that there ever was a tiger or that he came in contact with a carnivorous island with thousands of meerkats. In return he told them another story. This one involved humans. He said in this story that the ship sank and there were four survivors. His mom took place of the orangutan, the sailor took place of the zebra, and the cook was the hyena. The cook and the sailor were also on board of the life boat that they shared. The cook killed and used the sailor as bait for fish; he also occasionally ate a piece of the sailor. Then something horrible happened. Pi witnessed the cook kill his own mother. The next few days were quite awkward between the two, they never talked but the cook was nice and fed Pi the best parts of whatever he caught. Pi killed the cook in three stabs with the same knife that the cook used to kill Pi's mother. The interviewers were shocked. They didn't know what they wanted to believe although the people story was much more believable than the story with the animals. This is when I feel really sorry for Pi. It is too bad that the interviewers did not believe him and he had to live through the pain and suffering of that. The other interesting thing about the book is that