The Tiger Rising Summary

Chapters 1-7 in a book called The Rising Tiger were mostly about a Boy named Rob who is new to lister, Florida and wants to never go to school again. In the beginning of the book we were introduced to Rob( the main character). He is a sixth grader who just moved from Jacksonville to Lister, Florida, and who lives in the Kentucky star motel with his dad. One day he saw a tiger right before he went on the bus where when he stepped on the bus a boy named Norton Threemonger said “looky here it’s the Kentucky star.

I would recommend this book because it shows all the aspects of life and never makes you bored like other books that waste so much time describing something little and doesn’t get on with anything. This book is appropriate for teenagers and young adults as it has some inappropriate things and ideas like the rape case. This book links to my life by showing how racism is a concerning case like what’s happening now in many countries in the world not just about race but about religion and opinions. It also links to my life when I do things early and I get in trouble for that even though I’ve done something right not

The most interesting part of the novel is it’s end which is left on the readers to decide that whether the liked the first story of tiger and a human or the second one that includes animals giving out the mix feeling of humor and grief also Pi Patel describes it as a happy ending (although the tiger left him but he got on land after 100 days on life boat moreover he accomplished his quest of finding God).

Tears of a Tiger is a novel that reflects on the life of teens and the possible consequences that can take place due to bad decisions. The novel was written by Sharon M. Draper and first published in 1994. Tears of a Tiger depicts a story of a group of popular basketball players, who win their game and go to celebrate. The boys decide to ride with the main character “Andy” and have a couple drinks but end up in a tragic accident leaving one friend dead at the scene. The background of the novel portrays loyalty, care, and betrayal. In Tears of a Tiger, Sharon M. Draper uses symbolism to portray characterization.

Rosemary Dobson’s The Tiger delicately examines the notion of discovery as a medium of freedom, relating back to her own mental captivity similar to a tiger in a cage. The extended metaphor allows careful analysis of the sub-lying plot describing a poet's sense of discovery through their imagination. Through Dobson’s use of emotive language in “smouldering with rage,” the audience can better understand the poet’s deeply felt emotion, being unable to write to her heart’s content. “Behind the black-barred page” further accentuates, assisted by the alliteration, the statement's metaphoric value of remaining captive under frustration and oppression, destroying any belief or hope of achieving freedom to discover. Additionally, the hyperbole in the celestial frame of “He rakes the sky and stars...and is not done,” emphasises the search and will to discover, explaining that Dobson will do anything for her freedom, in order to achieve self gratification. The extended metaphor is resolved in the final

In Penelope Lively’s excerpt from the novel Moon Tiger, a brother and sister search for fossils while their mother waits nearby. Competition between the siblings causes an argument to break out, and Claudia is injured. Lively uses literary techniques to dramatize the complex relationship among the three characters. The excerpt from Moon Tiger illustrates the complex relationships between siblings and a mother and her children.

For the last several decades China and Japan have both risen as superpowers and dominated the Pacific. Japan during the 1980s had the “economic miracle”, however it had a recession in the 1990s that set Japan back. As China becomes a rising superpower due to growing populations and cheap labor and, while Japan remains a “fragile superpower” because of the lack of resources and ageing population both nations will continue to grow, or will China become another fallen communist nation and will the tiger of the Pacific come to a roaring halt? Ever since the Four Humiliations in 1839 China was in desperate need to modernize and change many aspects of its government if it wanted to keep up with the ever-changing world.

This book was a very good read. It was very eye opening. More than what I expected. It was a very well written book about the hidden lives of young

It is scary when you don’t know anybody and have to try to make new friends. Many of your young childhood friends will stay with you for a lifetime. Today, I am still friends with many of my oldest friends. They have become like family. I want to say that this novel is a great way for people to see how somebody from a diverse population lives. It is a great book from the view of somebody living a completely different life than I have lived. I think it was very well written and is easy to read. This makes it a great teaching tool for children of younger age groups or college students as well. I read this entire book at one sitting because it kept my interest the entire time. I couldn’t wait to see what

Moreover, chronology is very important to the story and this is shown through the loss of faith in characters. In the story, The Elephant, there are zoo keepers who know there are kids coming to their zoo who want to see an elephant. However they did not have one so they blew a balloon elephant instead. This tricked the kids until it popped and caused disappointment to arise in the children. “The school children who had witnesses the scene in the zoo soon started neglecting their studies and turned into hooligans” (Mrozek 106). This demonstrates how the past events made the kids into terrible people. They believe whatever they learned as a child was all untrue and they feel as if their whole life is a lie. They begin to lose faith in what they learned and give up on their lives. On the other hand, Roch Carrier demonstrated loss of faith through the protagonist. The protagonist learned something from his father on how to find fresh water. However the main character forgets his father’s tactics and is unable to find fresh water underground. “Somewhere along the roads I’d taken since the village of my childhood I had forgotten my father’s knowledge” (Carrier 96). This quote shows how this character is losing faith. He cannot believe how he forgot his dad’s secret technique and now believes that he has learned nothing from his dad. He feels worthless. These two books show how both characters in both stories have lost faith and have struggled since a certain time in their lives. The loss of faith can also

Evaluation: Although the dialect of some of the characters takes some getting use to, I enjoy this book. This is an American classic, filled with humor but critical of people who can be so civilized and so cruel at the same time. It is a boy’s adventurous coming of age that celebrates the individual spirit of America and the romantic vision of innocence and virtue in nature.

The tiger is the first animal on the totem pole. The tiger symbolizes raw feelings and emotions, the ability to trust yourself, willpower, unpredictability in actions and feelings, and the courage to face problems. I posses these traits, because I am able to trust in myself and have the courage to face life's hardest problems. I am able

This novel teaches us about the endless possibilities of life that we can face and that we can keep trying until we succeed with the many opportunities that we have around us.

From reading this book, I have figured out that the theme was coming of age and facing maturity. What you are about to read are examples of this.

Written by Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger tells the story of a man who went from living with nothing to someone with everything he could ever want. Balram Halwai grows up in “the Darkness,” an area of India where, among other things, family was the main source of life and contempt for family was of the utmost evil. When he decides to find a job outside of his social circle, Balram’s family implores him to send money home to sustain them. He finally hits his final straw when his grandmother begins to try to force him to be married, something he does not have interest in and knows it will take away his independence. Once he disconnects from his family, he is able to be himself, free from his former life that tied him down. As Balram Halwai embarks on his journey to become successful as the “White Tiger”, the social concept of family breaks down, thus giving way to him finding his independence.