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The Lady Or The Tiger

In my language arts class we read “The Lady Or The Tiger”. This a short story about a jealous princess, an angry queen, a nervous boy, a tiger, and a woman. But there is no end to the story which just leaves readers wondering. So my LA class had to write an end to the story, here is my ending: As the youth stood in front of the doors he could his hands shaking and his heart beating a beat too fast he thought about the princess, his lover and whether she would lie to him only to satisfy her jealousy. He felt trust and deception in her at the same time.
He decided that the envy in her was too strong so he did the opposite of what she said so he opened the left door. He felt the ice cold handle touch his finger in an unpleasant way but what could be waiting behind it could possibly be even worse than the chilled handle. He started to gently tug and right as he made the first little nudge he looked back at the princess to see if she had noticed he was not opening the right door. In fact she had noticed and she had an astonished look on her face. This face could mean that she understood that he outsmarted her or she thought that he was too suspicious to trust her logical advice.
The heavy door slowly opened and he could hear the old hinges screech. Inside lay a tiger, it lurched out at him but the second it stepped out of the old room he jumped in and shut the door. This left the tiger stuck in the arena alone and him alive.
As he was sitting in the dark and cold room he realized that he was alive but he also realized that his love was trying not to get him killed but he didn’t believe her. He could imagine how angry she would be for the fact that he had assumed she was lying. But he hoped that her joy for the fact he lived would overpower her anger.
The youth went through the back exit of the room and started on his way to the princess to beg for forgiveness but he was worried what the king would think but he thought seeing the princess was more important.
He got to the royals and ran to the princess to apologize but as he started the princess shushed him and said that all she cared about was the fact he wasn’t dead or with the other beautiful woman, he hugged and thanked her for her kindness. But he wasn’t out of the clear yet because he hadn’t talked to the king so he turned and looked to the king ready to here angry shouting but instead the king said that if he could survive a tiger trying to kill him he was good enough for his daughter and with that him and the princess lived happily ever after.