Tiger Persuasive Speech

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The princess waved her right arm and he opened the door. Giving thought and consideration a long time before the trial, she came to her decision. She didn’t want him to be with another lady, but he could also die and she could join him in the afterlife. What if they got unequal rewards or punishments? She watched as her love approached the door. He sees the wood doors with silver outlining, In a mud-brick stadium, with a dirt floor. In his mind, he saw the second most beautiful lady in the world, and… he longs to see the the captivating lady,hear the wedding bells, and, he indeed sees the most… fearsome, gigantic, sleek-furred, scraped up, fired-up, bloody-fanged, ferocious tiger. The huge beast turns from his last kill, and he leaps for more, scrumptious food with a mighty, massive, roar. The handsome young man, casts a last anguished search for the princess in the audience, and found nothing, for she wasn’t there. His excruciatingly pain-filled shrieks echoed around the arena, as his last few uber painful seconds of his life ended, “ Why?! Why did you do this?!” He howled, “ I trusted you!! I would’ve stopped the marriage for you! You made a blood oath! Why, why did you break it?! I will never forgive you! Why did you... “ He never had the chance to finish his sentence. No one …show more content…
No matter what! She promised me! She might as well have done the dirty job herself instead of the tiger! The tiger! Don’t even get me started on that! That beast could have done what it had to do super quick and easy! But, no! It had to rip me apart sliver by sliver! It acted like it enjoyed the job! And, I am pretty sure it really did! You might be wondering who caused this,, right? Well, it was the princess of the Tiger Court Kingdom! I was in love! In love! And what happened? She brushed me off! In a really gruesome way! What did I do to her?!

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