Editing Life of Pi (section)

=== Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel ===
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Piscine Molitor Patel, known to all as just "Pi", is the narrator and protagonist of the novel. He was named after a [[Piscine Molitor|swimming pool in Paris]], despite the fact that neither his mother nor his father particularly liked swimming. The story is told as a narrative from the perspective of a middle-aged Pi, who is now married with a family and living in Canada. At the time of the main events of the story, he was sixteen years old. He recounts the story of his life and his 227-day journey on a lifeboat when the ship he sailed sinks in the middle of the Pacific Ocean during a voyage to North America.