life of pi, chapters 63-74 [239-264]

In these chapters Pi does an aboundance of things like trying to navigate (or atleast try and figures where he is with the stars), goes fishing with different sorts of lengths of lines, and hunting turtles. The most exciting event that was occured in these chapters was Pi trying to set territories with Richard Parker (The Tiger). He does thing like shaking the boat trying to get him sea sick, blowing his whistle as loud as he can, and jumping up and down trying to intimidate him. These things did work for a while, but never really showed him who was Number 1. with all of the turtle shells pi gathered, he'd run up to the tiger and try scaring him that way, but with one swipe the tiger would knock pi straight off the boat. Pi would try this 3 more times and have the same result. it wasn't until the 5th time, when he would blow his whistle, shake the boat, and then charge Richard Parker and show him who was boss. In Pi's words that was all it took to show him who was incharge. Now when the tiger aproches pi all he has to do is blow the whistle and the tiger retreats back into his territory all balled up and head curled.