In the movie "Life of Pi" one of the main characters is called Richard Parker and he is a tiger. It plays an important role in the storytelling and many viewers enjoyed the story of this animal. In this article, you can find out the fullest information about him based on the plot of the picture.
The beginning of the plot and the first appearance in the film
The story of the painting begins with a guy named Pi telling his story to the famous writer Yann Martel already in Canada, who wants to capture it. It all starts at a time when the young man was still going to school. Many people laughed at his full name Pisin, but the guy didn’t care about that. At the age of fifteen, the parents told the protagonist that they would have to leave India. Since the father was the director of the zoo, they took some of the animals with them in order to sell them already in Canada. Among them was Richard Parker, who got his name from the hunter who caught the tiger. Initially, they wanted to call him Thirsty, but it turned out differently.
Development of the story
When Richard Parker and the other animals were on board, the Pisin family left India on a Japanese ship. After four days of sailing in Manila, they were overtaken by a storm, whichthe main character had never seen before. He went on deck to enjoy the action of the elements. At this time, the wave had already carried several sailors overboard, and Pi was thrown into the nearest boat. The fifteen-year-old boy was promised to find his parents, but fate decreed otherwise. There was a cook in a small boat with him, but a zebra threw him out. The animals broke free, and therefore there was still a hyena in the boat, an orangutan named Orange and the last guest was the tiger Richard Parker.
The protagonist has already discovered all this after the storm, when the ship drifted away from their cargo ship. A struggle for food began in the middle of open water. A hyena kills a zebra with a broken leg. After that, she targets Pi, but the monkey saves the character and becomes a victim herself. The tiger at that time was hiding under a stretch and at the right moment jumped out on the hyena, which had no chance of survival.
Continue fighting
Richard Parker becomes the only predator on the boat, which poses a threat to the life of the protagonist. That is why the guy builds a small raft and knits it with a rope to the boat. There he transfers all the supplies, and he himself makes attempts to somehow become the first number in the boat. Since Pi is a vegetarian, he could only eat biscuits, which were stored in a rescue ship. Together with the raft, they are scattered across the depths of the sea by a whale, which a careless guy disturbed at night. Starvation began, which ended in a fierce struggle for food at the time of the invasion of flying fish. With thema large predatory representative was thrown on board. Richard Parker and Pi began to fight in every possible way for him, but the main character, thanks to perseverance, won. Their journey together did not end there.
Ending scenes
Due to the name of the tiger, it is often confused with the main character in the novels of the American writer Richard Stark. Parker is his surname, and therefore there is confusion in the names. In the film "Life of Pi" the main character with the animal managed to visit a wide variety of islands and see a huge number of marine inhabitants. Once, on a small patch of land, Pisin found a human tooth in a flower.
Fate was favorable to the two travelers, and they were able to reach the coast of Mexico. During this time, Richard Parker lost a lot of weight, but managed to jump over the guy when they were on the beach. The tiger immediately saw the rainforest and headed there. Before entering, he stopped for a while, and then just ran into it. The main character was upset by the fact that their relationship ended at such a moment, but Richard never returned to say goodbye.
