second part contains the main action of the story, where a teenage Pi gets lost at sea after a storm wrecks the ship he was on, claiming the lives of most of the crew and his family. Pi is stranded on a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean with several animals from his zoo, including a large Bengal tiger, Richard Parker. The story here focuses much on Pi’s efforts at survival, both at sea and while in close contact with Richard Parker. The third part of the story is about Pi’s conversation with two officials
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in View of the Reading of Life of Pi I observed how Pi went through a retrogression in his empathy towards animals. This move, from empathy to absence of empathy, or suspension of it, receives an inverted treatment in Do Androids. Rick Deckard holds the position of hunter, though, unlike Pi, his prey is not animals, but androids. If, at first, his job requires his indifference towards those artificial beings, it is clear that at the novel’s conclusion he has changed