These are my reflections are on The Tiger Rising.

The Tiger Rising is a story about a boy named Rob, who is the main character who is very melancholy about his mother, Caroline dying of cancer until he finds the tiger, his dad Robert, another important person who in the end turns out to be not so bad when he apologizes for shooting the tiger, a girl named Sistine who becomes Rob’s best friend and convinces him to let the tiger go from the cage in the first place, their landlord Beauchamp who has the tiger locked up and gives Rob the keys to the cage so Rob could feed the tiger because he was to scared, the house keeper, Willie May who tells Robert that they were going to let out the tiger, Sistine’s mother who , approve of Sistine’s and Rob’s friendship, Billy and Norton Threemonger who bully Rob harshly,  Mrs. Dupree who is Rob’s homeroom teacher and tells Rob to go to the principals office because of the rash on his legs, a little bird who Willie May had as a child, a bus driver who first drives them to Sistine’s house, the principal, who gives Rob a note saying he should take a few days off until his legs cleared up when Rob knows his legs won’t ever clear up so he thinks he won’t ever have to go to school again, Cricket, a little bird who Willie May had as a child, and a tiger who lifts spirits and lots of other emotions.

Themes

• In both books someone dies.
• In both books the main parent becomes single or is single to start.