What's the Difference between Life of Pi the Book and Life of Pi the Movie?
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This doesn't happen. |
Pi takes music lessons and goes to play the drum at a dance class. There he sees Aninda who he later follows. She becomes his girlfriend. |
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Pi is on vacation and sees a Christian church and decides to go in. |
Ravi tells Pi he will give him two rupiahs if he goes into the Church and drinks the holy water.
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Pi has a teacher named Satish Kumar who comes to the Zoo. He tells Pi that he doesn't believe in religion and that religion is darkness. |
Pi's father says this to him. |
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Pi's teacher, Mr. Kumar had polio when he was a child. He said it was western medicine that saved him. Where was God? He wasn't there to save him. |
Pi's father had polio and says this to him.
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The writer meets Pi's family before he hears about Pi's time on the boat with Richard Parker. |
After Pi has finished his entire story, the writer meets his wife and children. |