Author’s Note is a traditional literary device The voice of the note is NOT Yann Martel The Author is a fictional character who relates a fictional experience.

Alternating View Many stories, especially in literature, alternate between the first and third person. In this case, an author will move back and forth between a more omniscient third-person narrator to a more personal first-person narrator.

Chapter 1 Pi had endured much suffering, yet the reason is not revealed.

Chapter 2 The narrative briefly switches to the author’s point of view. The author gives a description of Pi.

Chapter 3 Pi’s narrative resumes! Francis Adirubasamy

Chapter 4 Pondicherry Zoo Animals prefer the consistency of the zoo just as man has accustomed himself to the rituals and abundance of modern society.

Chapter 5 St. Joseph School Pi was bullied at school. Kids kept calling him “Pissing”. Petit Seminaire Pi hurried to the board with a piece of chalk in hand, and wrote Pi Patel.

Chapter 6 Author’s Point of View

Chapter 7 Mr. Satish Kumar “Religion is darkness” “Where is God? Where is God? Where is God?” “God doesn’t exist”.