The Lady Or The Tiger Short Stories

There was once a princess who lived happily in her castle with her mother and father, her name was Olithia. Years later when Olithia was 6 years old her mother died from sickness and her father did not want his daughter to grow up motherless. But by the things he heard in the other land last year about Cinderella’s stepmother, he was worried. 5 years later when the King went with guards in the forest he met a woman that lived in the woods, he was captivated by her beauty, but he always kept his daughter first. They went on to date for a whole year and Olithia was fine with it they got along great when she usually came over for dinner or parties. One day Olithia’s father the King proposed to the woman. They got married as Olithia was now becoming

Emotions. Everyone has them, and most people can control them, but some can't. In the Article, "The Lady, or the Tiger?" by frank R. Stockton has an interesting scenario. A king has put his daughter's lover in an arena with two doors. One door has a tiger, the other one has a lady. If he opens the door to the tiger, he dies, if he opens the other door he is immediately married. This would get rid of him either way. He looks to the princess to see what she says. She lifts her right hand up and we don’t know if he dies or gets married. I think he dies to the tiger because of the princess' jealously.

‘The Lady or the Tiger?’ The choice had to be made because one so innocent was guilty of falling in love with a princess, causing the princess to fall for him too. This union of a worthless commoner and a semi- barbaric princess was unacceptable for the princess’s even more barbaric father, the king, as ‘never before had a subject dared to love the daughter of a king’. (pg. 34) The decision was made and the date was set, the youthful soul was sent into the arena and fate decided the rest. If he had died or if he had lived, he was lost to the princess forever. The princess chose to kill her lover and save herself the misery of having to see him share a life with another. That day in the arena, the guilty opened the tiger’s door.

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” Rachel asks me in the library. She’s waiting for tennis

The story starts off when the prince is trying to think of way that he could be together with his love but tired of wasting time the prince gave up on trying to strategize and ended up concluding that he would go to the princesses castle to ask if she could run far away with him. (what a well thought out plan) When the prince decided to leave he ended up realizing that the area was littered with guards, who were trying to stop him from leaving again, noticing this he then took a secret passage successfully leaving unnoticed and continued his

Thousands of girls and boys are forced into human trafficking and the slavery market daily. However, it is not always forced labor, but voluntary. These underground activities affect families and puts them at potential danger of someone being trapped in human trafficking (Clause & Lawler, 2013). Many families are unaware of the dangers that exists today, even in America, and the different ways victims are trapped by and/or unable to escape human traffickers (McClain & Garrity, 2011). It is important to make families aware of these dangers since individuals who are caught in human trafficking have not provided consent nor agreed to this oppressive lifestyle. In 2012, there were 44 survivors of human trafficking cases reported in Kansas (Halley, 2012) while in 2013, Rapp (2014) reported that over 200 individuals were identified as victims of human trafficking throughout Kansas. There continues to be inadequate understanding of what human trafficking is and how to intervene. There are many families that are unaware to the extent of how youth and communities are impacted by this social issue (Macy & Graham, 2012).

There was a girl , her name is mariam. She was very beautiful. Her father was very rich . However , Mariam was living with her father because she couldn’t afford living by herself. Although , her mother used to live with them , but unfortunately she died from her cancer. After a period of time after her mom died. Cinderella’s father marred a widow woman. This woman used to bring her tow daughters to the house to sleep with them. One day , the ruler of the country invited each girl in the town in order to find his lover to marry. That day Mariam was so upset because she could not find a clothes that fits her to go to the party. She ended up going later in the end of the night. When she entered from the door of the party. Everyone was shocked

“I have always secretly wanted to kiss aboy.” “No way! Me too!” Yet another thing we have in common, I said to myself. As I was thinking to myself, I didn’t realize I was in a daze, and Cinderella was staring at me, like she was waiting for

Once upon a time in a land far away, a young girl named Cinderella lived with her Stepmother and two stepsisters. Although they were exceedingly cruel, Cinderella continued to be as benevolent as a human could be. One night Cinderella had come across a ball that her mother had forbidden her to attend. Her stepsisters tore and ripped her dress that she had made herself, so Cinderella couldn’t attend the ball. After Cinderella’s stepmother and sisters went off to the ball, a fairy godmother had appeared to grant Cinderella’s dreams to attend the ball. There she met a young fellow whom she danced with all night. Little had she known he was the prince who was throwing the ball. At the beginning of the night the fairy godmother had told

An integral satire technique repetitively drawn upon throughout the novella is symbolism. This device is constructed to inform the audience of parallel situations that identify illustrations of analogical occurrences. Every character, object, figure or event in this novella is a representation of symbolism in some way, shape or form. Napoleon, Snowball and Mr. Jones, are just a few examples of how the characters are portrayed to be a representation of the people involved in the real event of the Russian Revolution, who are (in order) Joseph Stalin, Tsar Nicholas II and Leon Trotsky.

The princess had to prepare to be uprooted from her home to travel to the unknown. She had to leave everything she had ever known to move to a town where she did not know anything. All was foreign to her. School was more difficult, children behaved differently, and her home did not feel like home. She felt alone. As a result of this, she withdrew herself and lived inside of her own head. The princess was unhappy and lonely. Until one day, she made a friend. A simple “Hello” was able to change her entire mindset. This princess discovered the silver lining. She adjusted to her new school, she met amazing people, and she learned to call a foreign land “home.” She continued to grow and find opportunities until she became the best. Once she was the best, she was determined to become the finest, but she still had some discovering to

…Without the slightest hesitation, he went to the door on the right, and opened it. Before the gate had even reached a foot off the ground the young lover, heartbroken, watched four frantic feet pacing back and forth and heard a deep, rhythmic panting. His mind frenziedly raced with dozens of thoughts: How could you do this to me? My dear lover, do you care but only for yourself? Someone must have forced her to tell me to choose the right door! What sort of fool am I to fall in love with the fairest lady in the kingdom?! What am I to do now? Run… The tiger steadily stepped out of his dark cage, allowing the afternoon sun to warm his striped fur. He gazed first at the masses seated breathlessly around the stadium

Then suddenly the tiger had jumped out onto him. He could not do anything but struggle for his life. Before the Tiger had finished him off all he did was stare into the princess’s eyes and feel betrayed. Digging his razor sharp fangs into the man’s neck he mouthed one last word “Goodbye”. Then like that the tiger dragged the man’s dead body into his cage.

     As the old saying goes “The good guy always wins”; Cinderella ends up going to the prince’s ball and is the only girl he dances with all night. For three nights the Prince walked Cinderella home, and she would disappear. However, on the third day the prince caught Cinderella’s shoe by putting wax on the steps. He gets the shoe and tries to find her. He goes to Cinderella’s house to try to find her, and her step sisters try on the shoe with no avail. Finally, Cinderella tried on the shoe and it was a perfect fit. Now that the Prince had found his princess, they decided to get married.

Have you ever had do make a hard decision in life ? Knowing that if you made the wrong one it would significantly affect you ? If you said yes, Then You could imagine how the convicts Frank Stockton's “The Lady or The Tiger” in the arena felt when they had to choose one of the two doors. The horror in the pit of their stomachs not knowing whether the were going to be greeted by a lovely new wife and be wedded right away , or a vicious tiger wait to tear open his flesh . In this story Frank uses and displays many unique literary devices that add spice to the story. The main devices are mood , symbolisim and also point of view , by using these he keeps the on their toes and leaves them wanting more. Stockton usage