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Orange Juice
The large, maternal orangutan that lives for a short time in the lifeboat with Pi and
the other animals.
Tomohiro Okamoto
A senior employee of the Maritime Department in the Japanese Ministry of
Transport. He interviews Pi after his ordeal and is responsible for learning what he
can from Pi to determine why the Tsimtsum sank.
Atsuro Chiba
Tomohiro Okamoto’s junior colleague who also participates in the interview with Pi
at the end of the novel.
The Frenchman and the Cook
The Frenchman is a castaway happened upon by Pi and Richard Parker. At first he
feigns friendship, even “brotherhood,” with Pi, but he becomes murderous and
cannibalistic once he’s allowed on the lifeboat. In Pi’s alternative version of his
travels for his interviewers, the hyena is identified as the cook’s alternate identity;
the cook murders the crew member on board the lifeboat as well as Gita Patel and
is finally killed by Pi. He is the personification of corruption and cruelty.
Meena Patel
Pi’s wife, a Canadian pharmacist.
Literature I – Magazine
