Tears Of A Tiger Character Analysis Essay

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How does the death of a friend affect the survivors?Well, What i think it affects someone is with depression.What i think causes depression is being unable to forgive yourself and not being able to look forward to the future.People who feel lost don’t know that you try to help them so they push you away thinking that you would bring up the tragedy.In the novel “Tears Of A Tiger” It shows a kid who suffers these effects and struggles to keep his life as normal as it can be.Andy the protagonist became part of a drunk driving accident along with three of his closest friends,and Andy feels so much pain because his closest friend Robert dies in the accident.Andy doesn’t know how to let go of the pain he feels and he becomes depressed. Andy can’t sleep or feel comfortable anymore because everything reminds him of Robert in the story there’s a quote that shows it “Christmas...Well, Christmas was kinda rough.Me and Rob used to hang out in the malls during the holidays, checkin’ out stuff that cost too much and pretendin’ to be interested in buyin’ it.”This also explains that Andy gets reminded of the catastrophe, and reminding himself makes him a lot more depressed and sorrowful.Andy