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    I can relate the situation from the novel Tears of a Tiger to my own life. For example in chapter one which is titled Crash‚Fire‚Pain‚ there is a boy named Robert Washington and he dies in a car crash from him and his friends drinking on november 8th in hazelwood. On page 1 it says that “Robert Washington died last night in a fiery automobile accident on I-75”. In chapter two titled Hit the showers! Hit the streets! it talks about how they got done with a game and then they get in the car and drink

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    it does” (Dashner‚ 361). In the books The Maze Runner and Tears of a Tiger‚ they both share the same theme of death. In The Maze Runner‚ Thomas and his friends constantly live in anxiety that they will all be killed by hideous monsters and never make it out of the maze. During Tears of a Tiger‚ Andy had witnessed death right in front of him and had scarred him to a very threatening point in his life. Both The Maze Runner and Tears of a Tiger share a common theme of death because both Thomas and Andy

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    Tears of a Tiger was a tragic book written by the author‚ Sharon M. Draper. The Publisher of this book was Atheneum Books in the year 1994. This book was a realistic fiction‚ which is something that could be real but was fictionalized. The book Tears of a Tiger starts off with a Newspaper Article dating back to November 8th titled “Teen Basketball Star Killed in Fiery Crash”. Four teenagers named Andrew Jackson‚ B.J. Carson‚ Tyrone Mills‚ and Robert Washington were driving home from a basketball

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    This is a Sharon M. Draper novel called Tears of a Tiger about a group of high school basketball players at Hazelwood High that just took a big win‚ and decided to celebrate with a few beers. They end up getting on the road after they’ve been drinking and crash into a fiery abyss. Everyone ended up making it out except one of the guys that got stuck and was killed- Robert Washington the most talented and gifted of the group. Andy Jackson was the designated driver who had also been drinking. After

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    Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper Anthony Avila ENG 3 Honors Period 3 The novel Tears of a Tiger is about a high school student named Andy Jackson going through a life of pain and guilt. The story begins with a newspaper article on an accident that killed a basketball player named Robbie Washington. They were all coming from a party and they have been drinking. Andy was driving the car and his three friends‚ Robbie‚ B.J‚ and Tyrone were the passengers. When the accident happened the Andy

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    Tears of a Tiger By: Sharon Draper Isbn-10 #: 0689806981 Themes: Death‚ Depression‚ Decisions Reading level: Young Adults Teaching Connections: I see this as a good book to use with young African Americans because the main characters in the book are African American kids in high school. The novel is also a very good teaching aide because it includes many different types of writing styles like poems‚ letters and short essays. I feel the strongest point to using the book in the classroom is the

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    TEARS‚ IDLE TEARS” “TEARS‚ IDLE TEARS” Summary The speaker sings of the baseless and inexplicable tears that rise in his heart and pour forth from his eyes when he looks out on the fields in autumn and thinks of the past. This past‚ (“the days that are no more”) is described as fresh and strange. It is as fresh as the first beam of sunlight that sparkles on the sail of a boat bringing the dead back from the underworld‚ and it is sad as the last red beam of sunlight that shines on a boat that

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    Tears, Idle Tears

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    Tears‚ Idle Tears 1) The author in the story‚ “Tears‚ Idle Tears” Elizabeth Bowen‚ Uses an in-direct method of presentation for Mrs. Dickinson‚ Her personality is mainly implicated through her speech throughout the story. Mrs. Dickinson is a very cruel‚ self centred lady; her main motivation in the story is to look good to all her friends or basically look good anywhere in general. She is the type of person that couldn’t handle shame brought upon somebody else‚ so her idea of assessing

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    Tears‚ Idle Tears In the short story‚ “Tears‚ Idle Tears”‚ the author Elizabeth Bowen uses an indirect method of presentation for the portrayal of Mrs. Dickonson as a cruel and vain woman who is trying to make her emotionally sensitive son into a stronger man. One can see the type of person Mrs. Dickonson is through her speech and actions. The way she speaks to her son Frederick is cold and calculating. She does not bother to worry about his feelings but rather belittles him. For example

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    ------------------------------------------------- REPORT ON TIGERS The tiger (Panthera tigris)‚ a member of the Felidae family‚ is the largest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera.[4] The tiger is native to much of eastern and southern Asia‚ and is an apex predator and an obligate carnivore. The larger tiger subspecies are comparable in size to the biggest extinct felids‚[5][6] reaching up to 3.3 metres (11 ft) in total length‚ weighing up to 300 kilograms (660 pounds)‚ and having canines

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