What's the Difference between Life of Pi the Book and Life of Pi the Movie?
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Pi sees a Gaur, an Indian Wild Ox, running on the deck in the rain. |
A Zebra swims past him when he tries to swim down to where his family is. |
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Ravi is a star cricket player and Pi is compared to him. |
Ravi seems like a normal boy and his mother once mentions that he likes cricket.
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Richard Parker is afraid of the water. He only jumps into the water when they are near the island. |
Richard Parker jumps into the water to chase a fish. He is swimming after Pi and he jumps onto the boat and is able to pull the raft on board. He eventually helps the tiger get back into the boat. |
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Pi drinks four cans of water and throws the empty tins into the ocean. |
Pi drinks the water but drops the cans onto his raft for safekeeping.
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The zebra has a fractured leg and the bone is sticking out. In the night the hyena bites off the leg and eats it. |
The zebra doesn't have a bone sticking through its leg. The hyena doesn't eat its leg. It just kills it quickly. |