Tiger Mending Short Story
Whitney Gathright
Feb. 6th, 2013
Dr. James Shade
English 1020
Analyses of two fictional stories
Tiger Mending and A & P both are very interesting fictional stories. I will discuss the authors and also analyze them both. The narrators both have significant roles in the stories. I will also discuss the tone, point of views, and imagery taken place in both stories. Both titles of the stories are significant and will be explained in detail of why and how.
In the fictional story Tiger Mending by Aimee Bender written in 2004. The author Aimee Bender who was born in the late 1960s attended the University of California and taught elementary in San Diego for 3 years. She currently lives in Los Angeles, LA and teaches creative writing at the …show more content…
They are both excited that they can go out of the country together while her sister works. The story is written is first-person point of view. I don’t think there is any symbolism in this story particularly. The imagery in this story has to be the women bringing out the tigers and having the sister sew together their strips, which doesn’t make any sense because how would a tiger lose its strips and get them sewn back? The very skilled sister once was enrolled in med school to be a surgeon, but soon stop attending because she decided that is not what she wants to do. She doesn’t want to do it anymore, because her parents both died because of a surgeon, so by this happening it motivated her to stop going to med school and pick up something else she was skilled in. The title is very significant in this story, because mending the Tiger’s strips back together is what the sister is asked to do for the women.
The next fictional story is A & P by John Updike which was written in the early 1960s. The author John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania on 1932 and graduated from Harvard University then went on to Ruskin
Feb. 6th, 2013
Dr. James Shade
English 1020
Analyses of two fictional stories
Tiger Mending and A & P both are very interesting fictional stories. I will discuss the authors and also analyze them both. The narrators both have significant roles in the stories. I will also discuss the tone, point of views, and imagery taken place in both stories. Both titles of the stories are significant and will be explained in detail of why and how.
In the fictional story Tiger Mending by Aimee Bender written in 2004. The author Aimee Bender who was born in the late 1960s attended the University of California and taught elementary in San Diego for 3 years. She currently lives in Los Angeles, LA and teaches creative writing at the …show more content…
They are both excited that they can go out of the country together while her sister works. The story is written is first-person point of view. I don’t think there is any symbolism in this story particularly. The imagery in this story has to be the women bringing out the tigers and having the sister sew together their strips, which doesn’t make any sense because how would a tiger lose its strips and get them sewn back? The very skilled sister once was enrolled in med school to be a surgeon, but soon stop attending because she decided that is not what she wants to do. She doesn’t want to do it anymore, because her parents both died because of a surgeon, so by this happening it motivated her to stop going to med school and pick up something else she was skilled in. The title is very significant in this story, because mending the Tiger’s strips back together is what the sister is asked to do for the women.
The next fictional story is A & P by John Updike which was written in the early 1960s. The author John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania on 1932 and graduated from Harvard University then went on to Ruskin