Yann Martel's Life Of Pi

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Have you ever seen the movie and read the book Life of Pi and discovered the similarities And differences between the two? Life of Pi by yann mattel Describes Pi on a ship that sinked in a storm then he got into a Lifeboat with animals then the hyena ate the monkey and the zebra and now pi is trying to Came the tiger and survive. between the movie and the book Life of Pi there are not too many similarities but there is very pronounced differences. To begin Life of Pi book and movie have some similarities. One similarity that happened in the book and the movie is pi was on a ship and a sink in the movie it shows Pi on the ship as it's about to sink in addition another similarity between the book and the movie is so I got into your

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