Tears of a Tiger

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Summary: Reality Bites in another parent "talk" book
Review: I believe the book "Tears of a Tiger", by Sharon M. Draper was interesting to read because it teaches you how to deal with guilt if you are going through it.
This book is about a young man dealing with guilt and depression after a drinking and driving accident him and his friends were in killing his bestfriend.
"Tears of a Tiger" is a good book for teenagers both male and females because if they are going through something like this, then this would help them get through it.

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Summary: The worst way to go
Review: Andy Jackson, an average teenager, lives with a very serious stain on his soul, and cannot be removed because of the choices he has made durring his life. Andy is a member of the Hazelwood High School basketball team and is one of their key shooters. After a close game victory, Andy makes a decision that will change his whole life in one night. He, his bestfriend Robert Washington, along with two other close friends decide to celebrate their victory by drinking beer and going out for icecream. Not thinking of the consequences that happen when people drink and dive, they get into a serious accident. Robbert is dead and Andy tries to get through life by hiding his true feelings and guilt about his best friends death. By failing classes and having mood swings, Andy loses his friends, family, and the most important things of life. Tears of a Tiger is the kind of book you dont want to stop reading becauase of all the conflicts that real people face. Even though this book is not based on a true story, any person who reads or has read this book will tell you that it is outstanding

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Summary: Unforgettable Book!
Review: Andy Jackson, member of the Hazelwood High School Basketball Team struggles with depression and sorrow after the tragic death of his best friend Robert Washington. Andy crashed his car while intoxicated with his three best friends after a basketball game. Andy, B.J, and Tyrone were the only three to survive. The frustration and sorrow of Rob's friends and family is shared through class assignments, notes between friends, conversations between families, the newspaper, and other documents. Andy has a very hard time dealing with his depression after the accident and loses his ability to face the future. This books deals with very real life situations present in young people's lives. It raises questions about drunk driving, depression, the role of family, friends, counselors, and teachers in students' lives. It also looks at racism in literature and through the opinions of students in an urban school. The negative aspect of this book it that it is very saddening and disturbing to read. The fact that many people encounter similar situations is frightening to me. Many times we read books and watch movies to get away from violence and for pleasure, this book is just the opposite. It ends too quickly and in an unlikely manner. However, it is still a wonderful book even though it makes the reader face pain and reality. All students should read this book because it gives a variety of writing styles. There are letters amongst friends and letters in diaries. There are dialogue conversations between family members, boyfriends and girlfriends, and teachers and students. There are also newspapers articles and people's thoughts. It gives the reader a variety of different writing styles to examine. This book is great because it deals with all the real life issues facing teenagers today. Students rarely are able to read about topics relevant to their lives and this is one that can strike a cord with almost everyone. Everyone knows someone like one of the characters in the book and everyone can relate to a character in some way. Tears of a Tiger is a remarkable book that keeps the reader interested throughout. The different styles of writing make each page a new adventure and the reader learns a new side of a character. It is a great book all the way through!

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Summary: the frustrating book
Review: My book tears of a tiger is talking about how some boys went for a basket ball game. After a new paper article was written saying how a 17-year-old boy called Robert Washington was killed in a ghastly car accident caused by his friend Jackson. His friend who was the driver of the car, which they were in, he was drinking beer when they were driving. Two of his friends were in the accident but were treated and released, Jackson tired to save his friend but while they watch their friend die helplessly. After that this friends, teammate, and staff made his memorial service that was held. Andy was doing in school he had bad grades. Andy goes to see the psychologist telling him about his problem he had in the ghastly car accident how Rob also died. his english Teacher was concern about Andy's notes, and how he was acting or his behavior. Monty the little brother of Andy who thought that whites are better than blacks. He saw his brother as a strong Tiger meanwhile Tigers sometimes cries. After this teachers started talking about Andy's behavior going out of hand and he had changed from good to bad.
My opinion about this book Tears of a Tiger is one of the best books I have ever read it is sorrowful and interesting to read. This book has a good starting a bad ending. Has anyone ever kill himself out of frustration? Read this book and you will understand what I am saying, buy this book then you will know what I am saying. Thanks and have a nice reading time bye.

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Summary: The best book ever
Review: Sharon M. Draper's Tears of a Tiger is the story of an unraveling black teenager who goes through a lot of pain, stress, and trauma. Sharon M. Draper writes in such a way that her literature literally brings tears to your eyes. This book describes bonds between friendship and love in a spectacular way. Tears of a Tiger presents the readers with lessons about drunk-driving and love.
17-year-old Andy Jackson discovers a world of depression when he and three other friends live a fatal car-accident. Andy, Rob, Tyrone and B.J. are four friends who celebrate after success in a high-school basketball game. All except B.J. drink during their ride on the car, even the driver, Andy. The likely conclusion that would occur happened, Andy crashed the car. All survived but Rob.
After Rob's death, Andy starts to go into a world of his own where he faces a lot of problems. He feels that Rob's death was his fault because he caused the car to crash. Without Andy, Rob wouldn't have been dead. That's not Andy's only problem. Andy's been having a lot of problems with his girlfriend. Andy's girlfriend, Keisha doesn't seem to like the fact that Andy has been in his own world. Lately she has noticed that Andy ignores her and starts being more and more of a pain. After they break up something terrible happens. If you read the book you'll find out.
This book was written in such a way that it was hard to put down. The author's style made you want to keep on reading. Each chapter was very unique. There were chapters that were newspaper articles and also phone conversations. By reading this book, I thought the author was a very creative person.
Tears of a Tiger is one of those books that the reader can generate a lot of thought. This book is filled with connection to the real world. This book shows the reader the consequences of drunk driving. Many teens can relate to this book, and that's what makes this book fun to read.
All and all, this was a very satisfying book. One downside may be that the author uses too much dialogue, other than that it's perfect. I would definitely recommend this book to adults and young adults. The ending left me hanging and wondering a lot about what was going on in Andy's head. I was thinking about all those people whose lives were ruined by drunk-drinking. This book left me thinking about how well the author constructed the narrative and how the situation was so realistic. This is one of those books which a reader can not put down because of its superior quality.

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Summary: tears of the hard life
Review: Tears of a Tiger is a very interesting book. This book is about some young boys who played in a basketball team. After a game they drove a car home (Andy's car). They were drinking beer when they were driving, then they had an accident where one of the boys died. The boy's name was Rob, who was one of the best friends of Andy. The other two boys in the back of the car escape from the car. Andy who was driving escaped after the accident, but Rob didn't, so he died in the car burned. After the accident Andy felt responsible of the dead of Rob. He got mad with everybody and sad, also with Keisha his girlfriend who just tried to help him. His family tried to help him too. His father wanted a good life for his son, his friends tried to help him. His little brother Monty saw Andy like a tiger, but at that time Monty saw the tiger cry. Nothing helped Andy, so he took the decision of. You can find the nest part in the book.

This book is good, because you can see how an accident changes your life and the life of all people around you. This book is for boys in the actuality. In the same problems that they have and the problems in their home. You have to read this book page by page to understand the main idea of the book. Read it is very good book

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Summary: TEARS OF A TIGER
Review: The book was outstanding it taught me alot.I think Sharon Draper made the story seem so realistic and life like , I could hardly put the book down. The hurt and guilt that Andy Jackson had to deal with after killing his bestfriend ,while driving drunk was really more than he could handle. Him not realizing who to turn to the hurt and pain was eating away at him. So the only way out to him was to klii himself and get it all over with. I recommend anyone who haven't read this book to do so because it is amazing. As a teenager I could really relate with this story.
By Tynia Mitchell
St Louis Mo

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Summary: Tears Of A Tiger
Review: The main character of this book was Andy Jackson. After they won their Basketball game a few of the team went out got drunk and got in an accident and Robert Washington, the Captain,was a passanger in the front seat while Andy was driving.Robert died and Andy took it hard and he also took all the blame for Rob's death.

I tried to read many books until I found this one. It was great. It had me in suspense everyday I read it. It was real realistic because I can relate to Andy a little bit. I also enjoyed the action and the Basketball part of it. It was even emotional in some parts of the book. I was really not hoping it to end like it did but what can we do. If you dont like to read you should start on this book.

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Summary: a tiger with tears- the princess of the library
Review: this book was riveting and keeps you on the edge of your seat all the way through from the terrible death of the first character to the tragic death of the main character *love always the princess*