The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

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I like that the author writes in simple, layman's language. He tells you what methods of therapy do not work, and why they do not work, and also tells you what will - and why. He must expect people to skip around a lot, because he does repeat himself frequently. For all that, it is still a short book and an easy read. Much of the violence that plagues humanity is a direct or indirect result of unresolved trauma that is acted out in repeated unsuccessful attempts to reestablish a sense of empowerment. After the fall of the Soviet Union exacerbated poaching and habitat loss in Russia, a team of Russian scientists and American wildlife biologists collaborated to prevent the extinction of the Siberian tiger. The year is 1997, and a man-eating tiger prowls outside a rural area in the Russian Far East. A group of men and dogs must brave the cold and pursue the tiger through the forest. But, unfortunately, the tiger is not only killing people; it is completely destroying them. With distinctive striped coats and elusive behavior, tigers are perhaps the most popular apex predator in fiction and non-fiction books alike. But the grim reality is that the tiger population the world over faces an uncertain future due to human activities and habitat loss.

Some reviewers didn’t like this story, saying that the tiger’s rudeness didn’t set a good example for children. The White Tiger is a novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was published in 2008 and won the 40th Booker Prize the same year. [1] The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India's class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy. The novel examines issues of the Hindu religion, caste, loyalty, corruption and poverty in India. [2] There is a famous quote: “You can’t understand Russia with your mind,” and the zapovednik is a case in point. In spite of the contemptuous attitude the Soviets had toward nature, they also allowed for some of the most stringent conservation practices in the world. A zapovednik is a wildlife refuge into which no one but guards and scientists are allowed—period. The only exceptions are guests—typically fellow scientists—with written permission from the zapovednik’s director. There are scores of these reserves scattered across Russia, ranging in size from more than sixteen thousand square miles down to a dozen square miles.” And then there's the issue, which pretty much boils down to the bad writing, of how the author writes about rape (as described by another reviewer). Now, I read Levine as meaning that whether you've been raped or whether the trauma has some other cause, does not matter to whether you can heal or how the healing process can be helped. However, Levine places his words in very unfortunate ways which definitely give space to another, revolting, reading. While I have no wish to entertain the thought that Levine would believe it doesn't matter if you've been raped or not, I do think that readers of books on trauma written by therapists are entitled to expect sensitive, well thought-out language that can help, not belittle survivors reading the book.Readers feel like a part of the struggle to protect tigers. The book describes the evolution of the species and alludes to its significant, innate status in human societies and myths. It's one of those books that you get so absorbed in and you learn all of these interesting facts that you want to share with people... for instance (I just have to share!) tigers are known for their virility and their strength - and the Sanskrit word for tiger *vyagghra* was Anglicized into "viagra" for the well-known impotency medication. Interesting, right? Well, there's more to learn inside this book! The man-eater in question did not stop at one. Investigators could see that there was purpose to this cat. Tigers do not normally prey on people. But this one went out of his way to hunt down his first victim. It is no wonder that locals consider some tigers to be more than merely human. Some are thought to be imbued with a supernatural aspect, making these already pretty scary critters even more terrifying. Vaillant tells of the investigation and its conclusions. Along the way he offers a picture of this remotest part of Russia, and many of the very colorful characters who have called it home, past and present. The area appears to have more in common with the American wild west than with a vid-phone-chatting 21st century. The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ is an enchanting story written by Judith Kerr. It tells the tale of a young girl called Sophie and her mother who are surprised to find a tiger at their door. The tiger is invited to tea and eats everything in the house! I think just about anyone could benefit from reading the first four chapters of this book. This offers a refreshing, biological-based look at trauma and its after-effects, while dispelling many of the myths that surround trauma and PTSD in Western psychology today. This is a book that actually could change certain peoples' lives for the better.

The author stroking himself and telling readers about his broad experiences and ability to heal his patients The Great Patriotic War had scarcely concluded before the USSR began rebuilding and retooling for the Cold War. While Soviet engineers and scientists perfected the now ubiquitous AK-47 and tested the country’s first nuclear weapons, the general population reeled from the catastrophic synergy generated by six years of war and the seemingly endless nightmare of Stalin’s psychotic reign. During the two decades prior to Markov’s birth, the Soviet Union lost approximately 35 million citizens—more than one fifth of its population—to manufactured famines, political repression, genocide, and war. Millions more were imprisoned, exiled, or forced to relocate, en masse, across vast distances. With the possible exception of China under Mao Zedong, it is hard to imagine how the fabric of a country could have been more thoroughly shredded from within and without.” Vaillant looks at people’s innate reaction to tigers, reporting on a study which concludes that our awareness of predator-prey relationships is an in-born gift from our ancestors. There is a fascinating section on why predators are naturally selected for intelligence. A dumb tiger will starve to death if it does not first become a cat-sicle in the 40-below temperatures of winter in the Amur region.

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The final fight with the tiger is pretty tense, especially considering it probably took less than a few minutes. I liked the epilogue, most notably the fact that many of the people in Trush's region think he has the taint of the tiger on him now and won't sleep under the same roof. It also won the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. In 2004, it received the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Best Adult Fiction for 2001-2003. It isn't surprising that the reflections pertaining to the tiger's umwelt herein are in general accordance with those expressed in the book "Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?" by Frans de Waal, even those in the book "The Elephant Whisperer" by Lawrence Anthony, and no doubt others. We are all cut from the same cloth, and the ‘all too human’ behavior of man is ‘all too animal.’