Life of Pi

Life of pi has 100 chapters and is divided into 3 parts. Part number one tells the story of pi’s life before and after an unnamed horrifying event that caused great suffering to Pi. Part number two describes in great detail the event not spoke of in the first part. Part number three begins by investigators asking Pi questions, Pi telling the story of part number two and this part ends, the book ends with the investigators opinion on the story and the main characters life. I really liked the format of this book. The last part tying the whole book together by starting before the first part, and adding the second part in the middle of it in chapter 97 “the story” made the book more interesting to me. Another aspect I liked of the book was the use of listing. Throughout part two there was a lot of repetition, and although this made some of the book hard to read, I found that this really portrayed the sense of boredom and urge to survive that Pi was feeling.