![]() Deceased Parents Are the Best: Tiger Eyes begins not long after Davey's father dies it's implied throughout the book that she and her father were very close.Fortunately for Davey, her mother eventually turns the man down. Davey absolutely loathes him, mostly because she's insulted at the notion anybody could take her father's place, not to mention if her mother did marry him, they'd have to stay with Walter and Bitsy. ![]() ![]() Child Marriage Veto: While attending a support group for widowed spouses, Davey's mother meets a widowed man and starts dating him.Davey goes into a blind rage and begins beating on Walter's chest, which earns her a slap across the face. Berserk Button: For Davey, it's when Walter dares to demean her father, implying that he was less of a man because he didn't complete his education and "lowered" himself to running a convenience store, and then goes on to badmouth her mother for being a teenage mother with no job at age 34.In 2012, a film adaptation of the same name was produced, directed by the author's son Lawrence Blume and starring Willa Holland as Davey. Her mother Gwen decides they need to get away for a while, and she moves Davey and her little brother Jason from their native New Jersey to New Mexico to stay with Adam's sister and her husband. The 15-year-old protagonist, Davey Wexler, struggles to cope after her beloved father Adam is killed during a robbery. Tiger Eyes is a young adult novel by Judy Blume, first published in 1981. ![]()
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