The start of chapter 37 the ship hits something and is starting to sink. Pi is awakend by the noise of the ship scraping against something, but doesn't bother waking his brother or the rest of his family bcs it is so early in the morning. Instead he decides to go on his own little adventure to figure out what was going on w/ the ship. He gets on to the top of the deck and see's that things aren't going well. There is a lot of cammotion going on.
He notices that the ship is starting to tilt to the bow, and realizes that it is sinking. He desperatly wants to go and wake his family and get them off to safety. But when he is running across the deck a sailor graps him and throws him into a life boat.
The next chapter has him regaining conciesness, in the life boat with a injured zebra. He remembers that he never got to warn his family. Then he yells at a Richard Parker character and is trying to save him from drowning. He ends up getting his attention by trowing a floatation ring at him. This gives him enough determination to swim to the boat. Just as Richard Parker started to climb on boad, Pi had realized what he did and threw an oar at Richard Parked and was telling him not to get into the boat, and to drown. That is when you as the reader figure out that Richard Parker is a 450 lbs, 3 yr old adult Bengale.
Pi jumps straight out of the boat onto the oar he threw at richard parker. He holds on to that for awhile so he doesn't drown and watches the ship he was on sink. He holds onto the oar until he notices sharks are starting to come so he swims back to the life boat and pulls himself highenough to be out of the water but not in the boat bcs the tiger is in there still.
This is an intense part of the book, and i feel really bad for the kid. He wants to give up and drown so he doesn't have to get eaten. I'd fold up so bad if i was in his situation.
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