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

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. 

The correct answer would be a chronological resume.