3.2 Rising Action
At the end of Part One, Pi explains that due to political actions, his father decided to move his family to Canada, a completely foreign place for Pi and his
brother, Ravi. Pi describes his deniable feelings to leave India to start a new life. It was announced to us one evening during dinner. Ravi
and I were thunderstruck. Canada If Andhra Pradesh, just north of us, was alien, if Sri Lanka, a monkey’s hop
across a strait, was the dark side of the mood, imagine what Canada was. Canada meant absolutely nothing to
us. It was like Timbuktu, by definition a place permanently far away.
Martel, 2010: 79
Pi then explains that his father sold the zoo and the majority of the zoo animals to various zoos in America. However, there are some animals loaded in
the ship as well. Then the first conflict before the climax is introduced, Pi and his family set sail on June 21st, 1977 on a Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum.
On our last day in Pondicherry I said goodbye to Mamaji, to Mr. and Mr. Kumar, to all my friends and
even to many strangers.
Martel, 2010: 90 Animals were sedated, cages were loaded and secured,
feed was stored, bunks were assigned, lines were tossed, and whistles were blown. As the ship was
worked out of the dock and piloted out to sea, I wildly waved goodbye to India. The sun was shining, the
breeze was steady, and seagulls shrieked in the air above us. I was terribly excited.
Things didn’t turn out the way they were supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it
comes at you and make the best of it.
Martel, 2010: 91
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This part shows various problems are revealed which affect one another. Political strife that affected India made Pi’s father comes to a decision to move the
family to Canada and sells their zoo. This case affected Pi as the main character who is against this decision. Meanwhile, he cannot do anything but to accept it.
This problem somehow seems to fade away a little bit as Pi tries to accept the fact and make the best of it. However, the beginning of the major conflict is revealed
after they set sail on a cargo ship to Canada.
3.3 Climax
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