Friday, February 26, 2010

Tiger Mending

When I got done reading the story Tiger Mending I felt the same unsettled feeling as the narrator did. I had a strange feeling, kind of like something was wrong or that I didn't agree with what the peoploe were doing. I think the story made the reader feel this way from how the narrator talked very highly of her sister, but that her sister still needed her for support and comfort. Then when her and her sister when on their trip to Asia and the way the two tall, beautiful women treated the narrator. It gave me an angry feeling they way they treated her. Then when her and her sister were shown the tigers and how their backs were split, the two women looked and talked to the sister like she wasn't good enough to be there and it seemed odd how the Asia people who were helping the tigers never knew why their backs were being split open. When the narrator went into the jungle and found out how the tigers backs were splitting so easily it made me feel uneasy, that why hasn't anyone else went out to go look at why this was happening to the tigers? Then when her sister has an uneasy feeling about "mending" the tigers and not knowing why their backs were splitting. All of these thing helped the narrator and myself to have an uneasy feeling at the end of the story. The last thing that really did it, was when the narrator couldn't hug her sister back and left the next morning. This just made me think that what these people were doing to try and help the tigers wasn't really helping them if the tigers were splitting their own backs. I think the narrator felt it was wrong to be sewing the tigers back up and I had the same feeling as she did when I was done reading the story.

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