Life of Pi<span> even flirts with nonfiction genres. The Author's Note, for example, claims that the story of Piscine Molitor Patel is a true story that the author, Yann Martel, heard while backpacking through Pondicherry, and the novel, with its first-person narrator, is structured as a memoir.</span>
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Well he might be frightened because of the words he is using to describe what is happening. He uses the word pitifully thin which might make him frightened because he just woke up from a dream.
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