Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger—a real-life, very large tiger—pacing back and forth in a cage. What’s more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his.

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Conflict. The conflict in tiger rising is when rob sees the tiger is locked in a cage in the middle of the woods,the father ends up killing the tiger.

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Shortly after, Rob meets Sistine Bailey (Mills), a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other and become friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things – like memories, heartaches and tigers – can’t be locked up forever.

The antagonist is the king, who has thrown him in jail for secretly courting his daughter.

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In the novel, The Tiger Rising, twelve year old Rob walks through the woods near his Florida home, he stumbles upon a caged tiger. The same day, he meets a girl named Sistine Bailey. Rob is full of bottled up emotions. Before long, he begins confiding his feelings with Sistine.

The third-person narrative centers on Rob’s journey to reconnect with his feelings and memories. Writing in a warm, Southern dialect with simple but emotionally-resonant prose, DiCamillo examines the nature of grieving and the healing power of relationships. Rob misses his mother, Caroline, who died of cancer six months ago.

The tiger eventually runs away into the woods. Rob and Sistine hear Rob’s father call his name, a scream from Willie May, and the sound of a gunshot. Thankful that Rob and Sistine are alive, Willie May leads them to Rob’s father, who stands over the dead tiger.