Tears Of A Tiger Comparative Essay

In both “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, and Tears of a Tiger, by Sharon Draper, both of the protagonists commit actions that would result in them both being placed in the Hall of Shame. The protagonist in Tears of a Tiger is Andy, a Junior in High School. After one of his high school basketball games, he is driving under the influence of alcohol with his three friends and crashes his car, resulting in his best friend’s death. This story is about the recovery process Andy takes to overcome the depression, sadness, and regret caused by the tragic accident he was responsible for. In “Romeo and Juliet”, Romeo commits many terrible actions including two murders that result in his banishment from Verona and separation from his family,
His personality changes and He begins to rebel against his parents and teachers, often disobeying his or her orders and acting out against them. Andy begins to become mischievous in school, setting of fireworks in his math class, not completing his assignments for English Class, and despite the encouragement from his teachers and the orders from his psychologist and parents, his behavior does not change, resulting in his grades to slip. Another reason why Andy is qualified for the Hall of Shame is because of his deception of his teachers, parents and his psychologist. He is successful in tricking most of the people who he is a associated with into thinking that he is no longer depressed and regretting his actions that caused the accident. The only person who he truly shows his emotions to is his girlfriend, Keisha, where he regularly has mood swings in her presence. Since he is not confronted about his mood swings because he is able to deceive most of the people in his life, He is never able to recover from the accident which eventually results in him committing