Tears Of A Tiger

Tears of a tiger is a novel about a boy named Andy. Andy had a really terrible drinking and driving accident with his friends. One of his friends, Robbie, died and Andy feels completely guilty for his death. Throughout the book he showed signs of depression and his problems kept progressing socially, emotionally, and performance-wise. Depression, a frighteningly common disorder. “Depression has symptoms such as talk of death, rapid mood swings, expression of guilt, troubles of finishing projects, too little sleep and complaints of headaches, and trouble keeping friends” ( Teen Health Wellness p. 4-5). These symptoms were all present in the novel to the main character. For example, after the car crash that Andy’s best friend Robbie died in, his talk with the psychiatrist was “ ( Andy) Well if you say so. But I really am okay now. I have headaches sometimes, and I can’t sleep some nights, but I feel a whole lot better than I did right after the accident. How did you feel then? (Psychiatrist) Like a piece of crap. (Andy) Why? (Psychiatrist) ‘Cause it was my fault that Rob died. I was drinkin’. I was drivin’ (Andy)” (Draper p.43) This quote just presented expression of guilt, too little sleep and complaints of headaches. Another example is when Andy and Keisha (Andy’s girlfriend) started to slowly depart from each other when Andy had these rapid mood swings on Keisha and got so unacceptable for Keisha that she ended their relationship. That displayed Andy not

A second example of the the connection between characters is the connection Gloria and Claire share between each other, which leads to Gloria and Jaslyn’s connection in addition to Jaslyn and Claire’s connection after Gloria dies. Gloria and Claire’s connection begins with the deaths of their sons in the Vietnam War. Their connections spreads across a delicate and painful time and space as results of both having to deal and cope with the tragic events with their sons and having it change their lives as they know it. Both women are in a support group with other women who are also

Amy Chua stirs up a controversial topic of the differences between Chinese and Western parenting styles in the article “Adapted from Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”. One may believe that the Chinese way is too harsh as others may believe Western parents are too lenient. Any parent can relate to one or both parenting styles that Chua is discussing. This article is reaching out to parents who are unaware of the Chinese and Western parenting styles. To give the readers a better understanding of how each parenting style works. This article was based on Chua’s personal experiences as a Chinese parent.

Trauma is an event in an individual's life which is "defined by its intensity, by the subject's incapacity to respond adequately to it, and by the upheaval and long-lasting effects that it brings about in the psychical organization" (Dodge, Kenneth A., John E. Bates, and Gregory S. Petit). In Toni Morrison's, The Bluest Eye, it is demonstrated very clearly how just one unresolved act of trauma can lead to an almost never-ending cycle of tragedy in a community. The cycle of tragedy is easily transferred from parent to child, and its effects can be easily worsened by a lack of support from other people in the community.

Many say that events, good and bad, from childhood shape a person’s future. Things like the death of a loved one, domestic violence, expectations and economic struggles can surely mould one's true self. However, the gap between finding the person they want to become and the one to avoid becoming is controlled solely by the way one chooses to handle these things in life. This is directly connected to the novel, Crow Lake by Mary Lawson, in which the life of Kate Morrison and her three siblings is depicted. The children are faced with tragedy when both their parents are killed in a fatal car accident and they are left orphaned to fend for themselves. The novel perfectly embodies what it takes to get through extremely tough times and push in order

Gail Cadwell once said “I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures” In Richard Wagamese’s novel, Ragged Company, the theme of loss is developed through the main characters’ physical strength to face the challenges of life with without a sense of fear regardless of the risk of disappointment, their emotional willpower to overcome adversity and their influential beliefs that allow them to endure hardships. The physical death of loved ones affect the five best friends’ ability to comprehend their losses. The emotional tragedies that each character develops have an expressive impact these characters’ perception of the world around them. The loss of spiritually influences how each individual deals with their own hardships and struggles. As a direct result of loss, the five main characters are forced to cope with their misfortunes and survive in modern day society.

Four boys went out after the basketball game. Robert Washington is killed in a car accident, and the three other

I never really realized how i couldn't be anymore different from  Rob from “The Tiger Rising’’ always thought my life wasn't very normal at all but the  I saw my life through a different perspective and that changed it all I thought it was bad that my parents are divorced but Robs mom is dead and he can't see her anymore but I could always see  both my family members even though they didn't live together and at least I'm not bullied or hurt at school.

The antagonist in Tears of a Tiger is depression and guilt. Andrew is getting really depressed, because he has the guilt of killing his best friend, Robert Washington, who died in a car accident, by drinking and driving. Everyday as the months go by, the guilt and depression begin to grow. Andrew may seem happy sometimes on the outside, but in the inside Andrew is mentally and emotionally damaged. Suicide is one of the biggest antagonists. At the end of the book, Andrew commits suicide because he is tired and fed up with the stress and guilt.

It’s safe to say, that The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien has significantly impacted my life and my outlook on life. One of the reasons that I connected to it, was because it “tapped” into my emotions. Because I was emotionally connected to the book, it was easy to relate to some parts of it. Although I related to some parts of the book, other parts were a complete mystery to me because it was unfamiliar to what I know.

ns-youve-been-getting-wrong/). Authors use this concept regularly to form strong connections between their characters. In the novel The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver conveys this idea by contrasting Taylor’s imperfect family with the powerful friendships formed later in the story.

In discussions of the outcomes of suffering, one controversial issue has been whether the lessons learned through suffering outweigh the pain of the moment. In his short story, “Sonny’s Blues,” James Baldwin tells the story of a young boy’s relationship with his brother, as well as their lives growing up in Harlem. As both boys struggled to lead a life they were proud of while trying to understand each other's differences, Baldwin highlights the overarching theme of redemption through suffering. Rather than using one’s pains and hardships to sever ties, suffering should be seen as a universal bond that holds humans together. In “Sonny’s Blues,” Baldwin repeatedly uses moments of pain to connect the characters in his story, demonstrating that

The author incorporates personal bias in the book Zeitoun to demonstrate the horrors of death and separation during Hurricane katrina. The author's portrayal of Zeitoun as a devoted father made readers feel a sense of loss and anguish at his disappearance: “There is nothing worse than this, Kathy thought, there can be nothing worse than this” (Eggers 185). Kathy trying to assure her daughter that her father was living, gave the reader a glance of the pain other families faced when they had no communication with their family members after Katrina. Zeitoun’s depiction of a benevolent man who feels guilt for not being able to save the dogs. “The dogs were just under the windowsill a tangle of limbs heads to heaven as if they had been waiting for

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,

Maxine Hong Kingston once said, “I 've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories. This quote expresses Kingston’s fervor for writing and storytelling outside of her short story “White Tigers from the Woman Warrior”, which emphasizes the importance of literature, which is her art, by retelling her own childhood as the “fairy tale” of the Woman Warrior, Fa Mu Lan, and connecting it back to her own life. The introductory paragraphs, coupled with the word carving scene and the concluding final paragraphs, evoke Fa Mu Lan and present Maxine’s life as analogous to Fa Mu Lan’s life story. While it is understood that they did not know each other, Maxine complicates this “relationship”, for lack of a better word, by using a first-person narrative as opposed to a third-person narrative while retelling the “fairy tale”, which in turn complicates subjectivity of Maxine, and the relationship between Maxine and Fa Mu Lan. Moreover, the words in the word carving scene in the middle of the “fairy tale” are double symbols of suffering and of perfect filiality, which is a trait common in Chinese culture. By and large, these early on passages, and each section from there on, and the word cutting scene, utilize the literary devices of point of view and central symbol to influence the audience to acknowledge Maxine 's claim that Fa Mu Lan is her model, and that she, Maxine, is fruitful in taking after her case since they both have words "at their backs."