Question

We first meet this character when he is much older. He tells the author a fantastical story from his childhood about surviving a shipwreck with a Bengal tiger, a zebra, and an orangutan.
Richard Parker


Pi Patel


Father Martin


Gita Patel

Answer 1

Pi Patel is the character we are talking about. 
He is the protagonist of the novel Life of Pi, and he is telling the story of how he survived a shipwreck with a tiger named Richard Parker, a zebra which gets injured and eaten by a hyena, and an orangutan called Orange Juice. We learn this story from adult Pi, and this happened when he was a teenager.