The book "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper is an amazing adult-teen fiction that captures the difficulty of dealing with reality and the consequences of bad actions. Draper puts forth a MTV-like setting, placed at Hazelwood High School. In this depressing novel, Sharon Draper captures perspectives from all of those teens who were effected by the horrible incident. The book is told from many different viewpoints. It is told by descriptive news articles, emotional letters, and conversations between various people involved in the book. This book can connect to people of all ages going through similar events. Buoyant after a basketball win, Andy, Rob, Tyrone, and B.J decide to grab some beers and take a drive. Andy, the driver, is a tall,
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, is a story written in the first person about a young girl named Melinda Sordino. The title of the book, Speak, is ironically based on the fact that Melinda chooses not to speak. The book is written in the form of a monologue in the mind of Melinda, a teenage introvert. This story depicts the story of a very miserable freshman year of high school. Although there are several people in her high school, Melinda secludes herself from them all. There are several people in her school that used to be her friend in middle school, but not anymore. Not after what she did over the summer. What she did was call the cops on an end of summer party on of her friends was throwing. Although all her classmates think there was no reason to call, only Melinda knows the real reason. Even if they cared to know the real reason, there is no way she could tell them. A personal rape story is not something that flows freely off the tongue. Throughout the story Melinda describes the pain she is going through every day as a result of her rape. The rape of a teenage girl often leads to depression. Melinda is convinced that nobody understands her, nor would they even if they knew what happened that summer. Once a happy girl, Melinda is now depressed and withdrawn from the world. She hardly ever speaks, nor does she do well in school. She bites her lips and her nails until they bleed. Her parents seem to think she is just going through a faze, but little do they know, their daughter has undergone a life changing trauma that will affect her life forever.
The critics who perceived this book's central theme to be teen-age angst miss the deep underlying theme of grief and bereavement. Ambrosio asks the question, "Is silence for a writer tantamount to suicide? Why does the wr...
I am going to summarize and analyze the novel named ‘’The Crying a Lot’’. This novel belongs to Thomas Pynchon. I will try to analyze this complicated but escapist novel.
On the 1950s, Wade Walker, a bad boy who is irresistible to girls, is known by the nickname of Cry Baby because he got the ability to cry with only one drop. He and his squad called The Drapes composed by his sister Pepper Walker, who is a pregnant single mother, has two more children; the exuberant Wanda Woodward, the defaced Mona Malnorowski also called “Hatchet-Face” and Milton Hackett who is Mona’s boyfriend. They study in a stereotypical vintage high school in Baltimore. During a mandatory polio vaccination at their basketball court, Allison Vernon Williams, who is a beautiful square immediately fell in love with Cry Baby.
In this book Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper, our main character Andrew Jackson and his friends Tyrone Mills, B.J Carson, Gerald Nickelby, and Andrews's best friend, Robbie Washington. Andrew starts out as a regular high school kid. His biggest troubles were how many points he'll make in a basketball game and if he'll be chosen for college basketball team. Pretty soon, though his life gets a lot more serious and complicated, because of a few bad decisions and a car accident that leaves Andrew's best friend dead. Which left everyone devastated and depressed. The person who really supported Andrew throughout the story is Keisha who is Andrews's girlfriend and sticks by Andrew through tough times, even though he's dealing with some exceptionally
In the literature The Cry of Tamar the author Pamela Cooper-White provided an in-depth insight on how the act of violence has received increase attention over time throughout all over the world. I found it really interesting how the different violent acts that have been directed towards women, can all be directed toward really anyone not just women. This text helps the reader understand the acts of violence that are being used against people, and how the church should respond to assist the victims in coping and moving forward to get past these vicious acts. Pamela uses the story of Tamar the daughter of the king of David to help us get a grasp for the type of violence that can take place, shockingly even within a family. I found several parts
Women will do almost anything for love, to be loved, or to keep love. That is their mission. When women become jealous, however, the love they want to hold onto disappears, becomes selfishness, and one does not know if it is love anymore. In the short story “The Lady, or the Tiger?” written by Frank R. Stockton, a semi barbaric princess motions which door her lover, the accused man, must open to either receive punishment or a reward. The punishment is to be devoured by a fierce tiger and the reward is to be married to a lovely damsel of the court. This semi barbaric princess loves the man and chooses which door the man deserves to open. Like many women in love, this princess would not dare to let another woman take her lover away from her. Instead, jealousy takes over and the door that opens will emerge a tiger because she will go berserk to see her man happy with another woman, and will prefer to have him eaten by a tiger and await the princess herself on a heavenly earth.
In Thomas Wolfe's The Child by Tiger (reprinted in Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson, Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 9th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2006] Page 625). The story as told through the eyes of a child will show many different ways to view Dick Prosser, the main character, as a man. The child Spangler shows how the children feel about Prosser, how he resembles a cat and how he turns from a good person to bad.
In the novel, The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga the main character, is Balram, one of the children in the “darkness” of India. Adiga sheds a new light on the poor of India, by writing from the point of view of a man who was at one time in the “darkness” or the slums of India and came into the “light” or rich point of view in India. Balram’s job as a driver allows him to see both sides of the poverty line in India. He sees that the poor are used and thrown away, while the rich are well off and have no understanding of the problems the poor people must face. The servants are kept in a mental “Rooster Coop” by their masters. The government in India supposedly tries to help the poor, but if there is one thing Adiga proves in The White Tiger, it is that India’s government is corrupted. Despite the government promises in India designed to satisfy the poor, the extreme differences between the rich and the poor and the idea of the Rooster Coop cause the poor of India to remain in the slums.
Let’s say a father left his child and wife to be with another woman 6 months before one of the most depressing events in American history, 9/11. The son has a lot on his mind to tell the father, but the son never got to, because on 9/11 his father died. Now the son, Bart Rangely, had to go to a school that was suppose to benefit his future, when really it bullied it. This is a Realistic Fiction book by Francine Prose. If Ms. Prose wrote Bullyville to express the loss people had in their family after 9/11, she also portrayed this book to show how bullying can eat up your life.
Tiger Lung by Simon Roy and Jason Wordie follows the adventures of an Upper Paleolithic, nomadic shaman named Tiger lung. Taking place 30,000 years BC in Europe between the Eastern Carpathians and the Northern shores of the Black Sea. A shaman is seen as a sort of religious specialist who by falling into a transcendent state, can consult with spirits, determine illness and possibly influence a cure, as well as manipulate curses. Shamans gain this role through various methods based on their culture. Either through drug use, surviving traumatic injury, lucid dreaming, mental disorder, ritual practice, or inheritance. Tiger Lung has inherited his position from his father and his father before him. In the book, we follow Tiger Lung through three separate narratives where he faces great challenges befallen a shaman of his universe.
...ctly shown that Melinda’s thoughts gear readers to see many traits of people that suffered traumatic events and are able to return to their former personalities. All of the valuable lessons learned during the reading of SPEAK are encompassed by the main idea of resilience, which is the ability to bounce back from a terrifying event. Melinda showed the importance of participating in “flow” activities and maintaining healthy relationships with friends and family. Additionally, Melinda displays the horrors of rape to educate people about the terrible effects of rape and the book makes sure to deter people from engaging in crimes such as rape. The lessons that can be learned from SPEAK are priceless in that they can save lives and help everyone reach their utmost potential, making SPEAK a book that should be carried on the shelves of all middle school classrooms.
“And so I leave it with all of you: Which came out of the opened door, -the lady, or the tiger? (Stockton 5) The princess must choose her lovers faith, another lady or a tiger. “The Lady and the Tiger,” by Frank R. Stockton is about a rich arrogant princess and a poor guy in love. The princess's father, the king, does not like the idea of their relationship. The king has a special way of deciding someone's guilt. In an arena, everyone watching, the accused must choose between two doors exactly alike side-by-side. Inside one door is a beautiful lady. If the accused opens that door they are not guilty, on the spot they are wed. In the other door, however, is a tiger. Open that door and you are guilty. The tiger came out
Across the globe, nations are undergoing an urban revolution. Specifically, Indian officials have created a new plan to transform the many cities into the new Dubai, thus creating a new shift in normal Indian culture. For example, new jobs for big businesses, fresh buildings sprouting up, and new freeways has kicked India into high gear. Author, Aravind Adiga explores modern day India through a riveting tale about a nefarious entrepreneur in his book The White Tiger. Taking place in a time of economic wealth coming into India, the inequalities of prosperity is explored. Aravind Adiga paints a portrait of the hardships forced upon India’s lower class. With these inequalities, many are faced with two choices: accept their role in the caste system or become a self-made entrepreneur. In The White Tiger, the audience follows the tale of a sweet maker, Balram
Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion is an example of a novel where history is re imagined and characters who in life have been forgotten, can find their place. It is a story of those whose own personal narratives played an important role in telling Canada’s own history. Focusing on those who got lost in the historical records and paying tribute to these whose stories usually would not be heard. These are characters that shape the city, yet are only mentioned throughout history in passing, yet they do most of the work. Through these background characters, Ondaatje can tell the story of an industrializing Toronto, while at the same time, can rewrite the official history of Toronto's infrastructure and bring attention to those who built it. Ondaatje