Life of Pi Characters: Complete Analysis
Life of Pi features complex characters representing different aspects of society, each embodying themes of the novel.
Pi Patel grows up in India running his family's zoo. He practices three religions simultaneously (Hindu, Christian, Muslim), which bothers everyone except Pi. Richard Parker is the Bengal tiger who ends up on the lifeboat—named after a hunter in a bureaucratic mix-up. Pi's family dies in the shipwreck. The Japanese investigators hear Pi's story at the end.