I asked the students: What do you think was behind the door that

the commoner answered, the lady or the tiger? Use examples

from the text to support your answer.

Student Responses:

● The tiger. She's known to be hot-headed, and she already has suspicion of
her lover previously eyeing up the other girl. She was jealous, and held a
hatred for the lady behind the door. If she guided him to her, she'd have to
see them together for the rest of her life. If she guided him to the tiger, she
only had to mourn him and then she could move on. In the text, she dwells
on him with the lady much more than being mauled by the tiger.

● I think that the young man chose the tiger. I'm pretty near the end of the text
it says something like, "Her decision was decided in seconds." It seems like
a more reasonable action because the princess really hated the lady in the
door.

● I think that the lady might have come out of the door because as much as the
princess hated her and didn't want her to be chosen, would she rather the
commoner get devoured by a tiger. I think she chose the lady because the
tiger would devour him.

● the tiger came out. Because the kings daughter is semi- barabaric and has a
wild heart. Whenever she thinks about her lover with the lady she is blind
with jealousy. She thinks it would be better for him to be dead in a "better
place¨ waiting for her insted of him being alive and find happiness without
her.