Transcript The Tiger Rising

By Kate DiCamillo
Catherine Kelly
The main characters were
 Rob: boy
 Sistine: girl staying in
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Lister
The Tiger
Rob’s Dad: Caroline,
his wife died
Willie May: Sistine
thinks she’s a
prophetess, Motel
cleaner
Beauchamp: Motel
Owner, Tiger owner
This story took place… (setting)
 Lister, Florida
 Kentucky Star Motel
 Woods behind Motel
 Lister School
I thought the biggest
problem was:
There is a tiger in a cage behind
the Kentucky Star Motel. Sistine
wants to let it go but Rob does
not.
The problem was solved when
Rob let the tiger go with the keys
that Beauchamp gave him to
feed the tiger, but Rob’s Dad
shoots it because he thinks it will
kill Rob.
At the beginning…
Rob finds a tiger behind the Kentucky Star Motel. Rob
gets on the bus and Norton and Billy Threemonger bully
him. Sistine gets on the bus. When they get to school the
principal tells Rob he can’t come to school because he
has a bad rash.
Then,
Beauchamp gives Rob the keys to feed his tiger and
shows him how to do it. Then Sistine comes over to give
Rob his homework and he shows her the tiger. Sistine
thinks they should let it go but Rob does not. Her
mother comes to pick her up and she wants to know
who Rob’s mom is. He finally tells her that his mom,
Caroline is dead.
Next,
The next day they go back to see the tiger. When Rob says
he has the keys to the cage but he still doesn’t want to let the
tiger go Sistine starts crying really hard. Then Sistine says
she has to go home, then they meet Willie May in the
parking lot and Sistine thinks she is a prophetess. So, the
next day they show Willie May the tiger and she says they
shouldn’t let it go.
At the end,
Beauchamp sees them walking along the
street and thinks sistine is rob’s girlfriend
so he drives off. Then they go to let the tiger
go. rob lets the tiger go but rob’s dad shoots
it because he thinks it will hurt Rob. Sistine
says they should make it a grave so Rob and
his dad dig it a grave.
The best part of the story was
when
Sistine meets Willie May and says she is a
prophetess because Willie May is nice and
Sistine is angry. I like the way Willie May is
bold and believes in what she says.
I didn’t like
the part when the tiger was almost free but
Rob’s dad shot it because he thought it would
hurt someone. Although it was good that they
made it a grave.