Stranded for 227 days at sea in a lifeboat, with no one else but an adult Bengal tiger. This is exactly what the main character Pi experienced, in "Life of Pi". "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel is the story of a boy named Piscine Molitor Patel, an Indian boy who survives for more than seven months by floating on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean, with no one else but a 450-pound tiger (Cooper) . Yann Martel was born on June 25, 1963 in Salamanca, Spain. His parents, Emile Martel and Nicole Perron, were both born in Canada. He spent his childhood in several countries, including France, Mexico, the United States, Canada and Costa Rica. As an adult, he lived in many other places, but one of them was India, from where he may have drawn inspiration for write "Life of Pi". Yann Martel uses literary elements, similes and foreshadowing, to express the theme that believing in religion can give you the faith to want to survive. Similes are a recurring element in "Life of Pi". Similes are rhetorical figures that compare two different things, often introduced by similar or as. Similar...