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I had not had a drop to drink or a bite to eat or a minute of sleep in three days. I thought of sustenance for the first time. At length, as slowly as a caravan of camels crossing a desert, some thoughts came together. I was pinned by weakness to the tarpaulin. And I needed to be higher up if I were to see other lifeboats. My back hurt from leaning against the lifebuoy. My neck was sore from holding up my head and from all the craning I had been doing. The rain stopped, I could not stay in the position I was in forever. Only rain, marauding waves of black ocean and the flotsam of tragedy. I looked about for my family, for survivors, for another lifeboat, for anything that might bring me hope. I watched the ship as it disappeared with much burbling and belching. The waves splashed me but did not pull me off. I held on to the oar, I just held on, God only knows why?
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But I don’t recall that had a single thought during those first minutes of relative safety. Had I considered my prospects in the light of reason, I surely would have given up and let go of the oar, hoping that I might drown before being eaten. I was alone and orphaned, in the middle of the Pacific, hanging on to an oar, an adult tiger in front of me, sharks beneath me, a storm raging about me. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry. Here is an abridged version of the famous Canadian fantasy adventure novel titled Life of Pi by Yann Martel published in 2001.