Multicultural Fiction
By Sophia Rozek and Eddie Preliwitz
General Information
Leaders from outside their culture represented in a novel can help gain understanding of the lives of their neighbors.
Multicultural Fiction has characters such as African American, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, Asian, Native American, Jewish etc.
This has various genres, and it has a diverse in style as its characters perspective.
Life of Pi
Francis Adirubasamy tells the anonymous author in the story about Pi Patel, a man who was brought up in Hinduism, and studied Christianity and the Islamic religion.
Pi goes on a cargo ship with his family and many zoo animals going to Canada. The ship sinks and he ends up on a life boat with a tiger. After many adventures, they end up on a Mexican beach.
They talk about the cultures of Canada, India, Mexico and Japan.