Tears Of A Tiger Personal Analysis

Connection to Self: Tears of a Tiger I can relate the situation from the novel Tears of a Tiger to my own life. In the novel the group of four boys( Robert Washington, Andrew Jackson, B.J. Carson, and Tyron Wills) crashed a car into a retaining wall which then burst into flames and exploded killing one of the boys. On page one it states the vehicle “had been noticeably weaving across the lanes of the expressway just before it hit a retaining wall and burst into flames.” I can relate as I have been in a car accident, not as devastating as the one shown in the novel but terrifying nonetheless. One bleak summer day my cousin Kevin, and my friend Carlos, decided to go along with me for a ride. Kevin who was 18 and could drive allowed me to drive in his stead this time just in preparation for when I would be able to drive myself. We decided to put gas in the car since it was low and I had confidence …show more content…
When I realized what had happened I started to sweat bullets and my friends had such a shocked and mortified expression that it just made me more terrified. I backed the car up and went outside with the others to see the damage that the crash had caused and I almost wish I had not gotten out. The whole front bumper of the car seemed broken and I felt my hopes of it being “just a scratch” crash and burn inside me. We parked the car near the gas station to try and see what we could do to fix it which was almost nothing. The manager of the station even came outside and told us “just put it in the trunk and go!” which was no help at all. We decided in the end to tie my shoe string to hold the bumper in place until we got home. Kevin decided to drive the car back and the entire way I prayed and prayed for my mother and father to be forgivable. They were not. I learned to wait and not drive until I get my license as I never want to feel like that again. Although nobody was injured or killed like in the novel it was a truly terrifying