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Tiger Lily By Jodi Lynn Anderson
Ever wonder what was really going through Tinker Bell and Tiger Lily’s lives? In the novel Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily is a young indian teenager faced with a forced marriage with a abusive young indian boy, Giant, or to run away from the tribe and find new adventure with Peter Pan and the Lost Boys. In the novel it tends to show you a different view of what’s happening, from Tinker Bell’s point of view. It shows how she feels about other characters and what happens as she joins Peter Pan and Tiger Lily on their magnificent journey of life. The author tried to make the reader dispise Peter by making him a stalker, troublesome, and nosey.

Peter Pan would watch , or stalk the skyeaters. The skyeaters are a tribe in neverland that are known for being the most protective in the land, Tiger Lily is part of this tribe.almost every second of the day, or when he was not busy with Lost Boys. Secondly, Peter Pan is a stalker “He watched us in the village…” Tiger Lily was the skyeater that Peter admired the most. She was different from everyone else, she was like the ugly duckling out of
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He watches and listens and learns more and more about what is really going on in other people's lives, especially when it came to Tiger Lily. He would always make ask people how she was doing and about everything going on in her life. When someone couldn’t answer that for him he would go out and figure it out how she was and she was doing himself. Another reason Peter Pan is nosey is because he would hover over the lost boys, even though he was the man in charge he always knew exactly what was going on in each of all of their lives. Like when he was telling Tiger Lily about one of the lost boys Slightly, “He’s cranky because he didn’t get enough sleep. Plus he thinks he remembers England, and it makes him annoying.” (Anderson 76). This is why Peter Pan is

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