A Child Called Tiger

This week i had to read A Child Called Tiger. I thought it was quite confusing and creepy,  but it did make me think of why people do things like he did. I mean this happens in real life too. How can people be the person little kids look up to and then all the sudden snap into a totally different person. It makes me think deeper when looking at people, i mean you really never know whats going on behind closed doors. The person who you see as happy and full of life could have a horrible home situation that no one knows of, but they would rather just hide it. Anyways in A Child Called Tiger the author never tells you why he went crazy, in stories like this you can try and piece together your own thoughts of what may have happened. I think he had a thing going on with the maid. She had left before he had a breakdown and shot everyone. I think the maid, Patsy, put him in a tough situation when her husband came home. I think he wanted her to make a decision and wanted it to be him, not her husband. When he didn't get the answer he wanted he had a breakdown and decided to take his anger out in the best way he thought of at the time. He was in the Army so maybe that's why killing came first in his mind. Although we will never know because the author finished the short story without any insight into his character life and the man died.

most dangerous game

So this may sound silly but while reading The Most Dangerous Game i thought it sounded kind of like The Hunger Games. When Zaroff was hunting Rainsford it reminded me of all the tributes hunting each other to stay alive. I know Rainsford wasnt hunting anyone but he was using his survival skills like Katniss. General Zaroff was more like President Snow, he was only hunting for the entertainment of it. Anyways Rainsford was like Katniss in more than the arena ways, he also had the will to stay alive and win the game Zaroff was playing. This will help him to overcome his opresser and win and also stay alive. In both stories the 'players' are picked randomly, but in different ways. In The Most Dangerous Game its whoever lands on the island is choosen to play General Zaroff's games, whereas in THe Hunger Games people are picked out of a bowl. There are more than just this differences between the books but the purpose for reading them are also the same. They are both literary reads. Literary reading is when the writing you are reading is purely for entertain not thought and adacemic teaching aids-like summer reading books :(. Personally i like the literary readings better because i just like the easy reads that dont take a lot of deep thinking to understand. I like to just enjoy the book.