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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain

Aeneid Virgil

The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll

All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren

All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque

An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser

Andromache Jean Racine

Animal Farm George Orwell

Black Boy Richard Wright

Black Elk Speaks John Gneisenau Niehardt

Brave New World Aldous Huxley

The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky

Candide François Voltaire

The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer

Catch-22 Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger

The Color Purple Alice Walker

Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare

Concerning the Principles of Morals David Hume

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Crucible Arthur Miller

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton

Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand

Yann Martel’s Life of Pi is the story of a young man who survives a harrowing shipwreck and months in a lifeboat with a large Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.

The beginning of the novel covers Pi’s childhood and youth. His family owns and runs a zoo in their hometown in India, and his father is emphatic about being aware of the wildness and true nature of animals, namely that they are not meant to be treated like or thought of as people. Early in Pi’s life, his father realizes that his son’s naiveté about the tiger in their care may put Pi in danger. To illustrate how true and real the threat is, he forces the children to watch the tiger kill and eat a goat.

Pi goes through a significant religious awakening in his formative years, eventually subscribing to a variety of religions: Hinduism, Catholicism, and finally Islam. Although the religious leaders don’t accept Pi’s plural religions, his family gradually does, and he remains a devout follower of all his religious paths for his entire life.

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