The Life of Pi

   The Life of Pi is a survival book.  It is a lot like the book Hatchet. Pi, a 16 year old boy is the main character is going to Canada.  His family owns a zoo and is moving to Canada because Pi's parents are motivated by India's political strife.
  Pi is awoken in the middle of the night on the cargo ship holding himself, crew members, the zoo animals and his family.  He goes out of his room to investigate the noise.  He hears a loud booming or crashing sound and figures out the boat is sinking.  One of the crew members in the panic lets out all the crew members from the cages.  By the time he is out of his room investigating, all of the animals are running a muck.  He tries to save the zoo animals by trying to lure some of them into life boats.
  Crew members throw him into a lifeboat seeming to help him.  Later he realizes that a bangle tiger named Richard Parker is aboard the life boat and the crew members threw him on there assuming that the tiger would kill him and in the act of killing him he would also inflict a lot of damage upon the tiger making the life boat safe enough to board.
 He is then carried away on the life boat.  All of it is gone.  His family, all of his loved ones,everyone.  And to make it worse he is stuck on a life boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
  He soon realizes that he has company on his life boat.  On the boat he there is a zebra who has broken her leg badly while jumping off the boat into the lifeboat in a panic,  his childhood friend an orangutan named Orange Juice, a fierce hyena, and finally the bangle tiger named Richard Parker.

  He now must learn how to survive on his own with these deadly zoo animals and the deadly unpredictable whether of the Pacific Ocean. What will he do to survive?  Will Pi overcome the overwhelming depression he is in?  What will happen to all the animals on the boat?