During the summer of 2014, I read many book, but my favorite was definitely Life of Pi. Life of Pi is a book about a teenage boy, that is the son of a zookeeper, goes on a cargo ship with many animals and his family. The boat crashes, and he is the only human survivor. He ends up on a lifeboat with a tiger, a hyena, an orangutan, and a wounded zebra. Eventually it becomes just him and the tiger, and this story is how he survives. This book was delightful, beautiful, funny, smart, creative, and it was a survival manual. It was just amazing. I enjoyed it so much, and it will be one of those books that I will remember forever. Not only was it a brilliant idea, but it is one of those books that really make you think.

When you read Life of Pi, you can picture everything that’s happening because the author makes the story so descriptive.  For instance, when he describes Richard Parker, or the tiger, he says that he looked prideful, and ferocious. His gleaming orange fur gleamed in the sunlight, and he looked absolutely stunning. The author, Yann Martel, describes the ocean very well too. He pastes a picture in my mind of a see-through ocean, with fish and turtles, and shark fins sticking out of the water. I also pictured him and Richard Parker alone on the boat, in the middle of an enormous ocean. As you can see, Life of Pi is a very beautiful book that makes you imagine all these gorgeous things in the book. Some of the things Martel writes about put these mesmerizing images in your mind. Some include the whale jumping out of the water, and the flying fish go over the boat.

Life of Pi is the most creative book I have ever read. I can’t understand how much creativity a person can have to come up with a story like this. Everything about this book is so creative and original. One example of creativity is the carnivorous island, with meer kats that eat fish, and a tree that someone died on, and it now inhabits their teeth.  That’s such a genius and crazy idea. Another creative factor, is he came up with the plot of a boy and a tiger alone, on a lifeboat. No one has ever written about such a thing, and this is such an amazing topic. This proves that Life of Pi is a very creative book, that is original, and unique. After I finished I was astonished by the creativity in a individual.

One of the things that I liked most about Life of Pi is that it is a survival book. It tells you everything you need to know to survive on a lifeboat, with or without a carnivorous animal. It tells you how to get water with water-bags, and these covers that collect water. They also tell you how to get food, by fishing and spearing. They tell you how to train the carnivorous animal on the boat by blowing the whistle and throwing up to make a border. Also to never drink seawater and urine. And to never jump in the water. This factor of  Life of Pi was just truly amazing and I love the fact that it told you how to survive. So now I now how to partly survive if I’m stuck on a boat.

In conclusion, Life of Pi was not just a regular book with a theme, character development, and other things. But it was a Survival manual, a creative piece of art, and beautiful book. I will always love this book, and I will always think about it as an amazing, original, and stunning book.