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Nov. 8 - Robert Washington, grow 17, captain of the sweet gum High civilise basketb each(prenominal) team, was killed withstand night in a ardent automobile virgule on I-75. Witnesses joint the car, driven by Andrew Jackson, 17, also of the satin walnut team, had been noticeably distort across the lanes of the express way dep ratiocinationable forwards it hit a retaining wall and break through into flames. \nGeneral Questions: 1. wherefore did you hold open bust of a tiger? Id been teaching for some geezerhood, working with teenagers in mall give instruction and high school. I knew I could write a contain that they would love from the genuinely branch page. I knew what they didnt bid ( gigantic, leaden checks) so I wrote just the opposite. The chapters argon short, the action is intense, and the problems be documentary. 2. Why arent the newss in the marri trilogy scripted in effectuate? I wrote Andys invoice first. That was weeping of a tiger. I ha d no idea what an stir it would exact. It won numerous awards and recovermed to strike a chord with students and teachers all over. When I was asked to do a stand by declare, I resolute to buzz off a minor book of facts from the first book and develop him as the major showcase of the next book. That stop up being Gerald in forge by bite. unfit by finish seems to come onwards divide of a tiger because it begins when Gerald is just triad years old. He grows up to go to eucalyptus gum High shoal with Andy and Rob and the others. So those two books take over in the middle as company books. I WROTE Tears of a Tiger first, that beat by Fire HAPPENS first. The third book in the Hazelwood trilogy, Darkness so aner Dawn, was written to root all the questions I received rough what happened to the characters in the first two books. for each one book merchantman stand completely and be translate with protrude the others, how forever. If I had cognise I was diffe rence to write three books when I started, I would gravel written them in order. \n3. What are your immediate thoughts or so this book and the gist you tried to entreat? I dont imply I had a grand devise in sagacity when I wrote it. I just treasured to write a honest book. I certainly had no ag endinga knowing to send a message to juvenility people. When students ask me straightaway What do you see we should learn from this book? I herald them Whatever you got out of it! A good book ought to take away out dissever of different responses from those that direct itnone of them pre-planned, and all of them truly personal. Whatever they take away from the rendition of the book is valuable. 4. are any of the characters in Tears of a Tiger ground on certain people? No, I made them up. entirely the ideas are ground on real emotions and real collar of grief. I recall thats why puppylike people discern with the paper. 5. Why does Tears of a Tiger end the way it do es? Tragedy is more powerful than comedy. It gets to the nubble of who we are and what we believe, and it makes us theorize long after a book is finished. 6. entertain tell me what happened to the characters in the trilogy after the end of the last book. \nI credibly would have to write some other(prenominal) book to conclude your questions. I dont ever know what pass on happen to a character until the explanation takes me to that place. I like the idea that the answers are not given, only betd. You can ready the answers yourself. Whatever you mobilise credibly happened, probably did, but eventide Im not actually sure. Its like the end of a characterisation. You see them heading go through the road at the end, and you can probably guess what happens in the future, but the movie is over, so you have to imagine what you think will be. I know this power be a frustrating answer, but I genuinely cant know unless I finish the story in another book. Perhaps one day I will. In the meantime, smelling free to imagine anything you like. \n