Tears of a Tiger Analysis

Tears of a Tiger takes place at Hazelwood High, a fictitious high school that does a very good job of coming across like it could be pretty much any high school in America. Draper is vague with the...

In a bit of a twist on classic first-person narration, instead of hanging out with one character throughout Tears of a Tiger, we hear from most of the main characters at some point. Andy, Gerald, B...

Whether you bought this book in your local book shop, picked it up at the library downtown, or downloaded it onto an e-reader, we know exactly where you found it: the young adult lit section.To be...

Reading this book makes us want to cry. Literally. We're talking buckets of tears. It's not just that it's about super sad topics like drunk driving and teen suicide; it's also the way it's written...

Doesn't it feel like we're just chilling with Andy and his pals? That's probably because the writing style is uncomplicated and conversational, which makes this book a very quick read. The first li...

Wait a minute… Tears of a Tiger? Last time we checked, tigers don't cry. So what's the deal with the title? It comes from Andy's conversation with his little brother, Monty. But that's all we're...

A man shrieks in pain Crying to the universe. Panic is abrupt. The book starts out with a poem, which is fitting considering how many poems or creative writing pieces there are throughout the novel...

In the end, Andy decides there's no point in living any more and kills himself. It's a rough ending, especially since we root for him and want him to survive. At the same time, though, it's an endi...

Andy and his friends are just like us, which makes this story pretty easy to read—we get what the characters are feeling because we can see bits of ourselves in them. Plus, the book's written the...

Celebrate Good Times When Robbie and Andy win their school's basketball game, it's party time. They might be in high school, but they manage to get their hands on some beer, then hit the open road...

Can't get enough of Gerald, Keisha, and the gang? You're in luck. Tears of a Tiger was so wildly successful that Draper wrote a trilogy around it called The Hazelwood Trilogy. (Source.)Even though...

For a book about teens, this book really doesn't dabble much in sexy stuff. About as steamy as it gets it when Andy describes what Keisha is wearing: a "short, butt-huggin' skirt, and she kept jump...

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