Here are various endings for the short story "The Lady or the Tiger," written by Ms. Zubiri's ESL 4 class, Sept. 2011:
Behind that door was the lady. The man married her, but the man and the princess were sad because they still loved each other. After a few days, the man escaped with the princess and they were happy. But the king was sad because he lost his daughter. After a few months they came back. The king was happy to see his daughter again. Then he accepted the man and the man married the princess.
Celina Valeriano
Suddenly the princess forgot the door that had the tiger and the fair lady. It all went too fast and she turned back to the young man and chose the door with the tiger. The people shattered in tears and the man died.
Elvis Martinez
The young man saw two big eyes in front of him, then he
saw the tiger jumping on him in the arena. All the people were watching how the tiger was tearing apart the young man. The princess was crying for making the wrong choice, but it was too late to change the decision to kill the young man .
Damyan Tuchenishki
When the man opened the door that the princess pointed to, a beautiful lady came out of the door. Then the princess got really sad because she wasn’t going to be able to see him again. But when the princess was crying in her bed, the young man knocked on her door and he told her to escape with him to another country. The princess told him ‘’yes." When her father went to see her, she wasn’t there and her father got really sad because he wasn’t going to see his daughter again. And he promised to never judge a person like he judged the young man again.
Abrahan Cortes
He saw the princess’ hand pointing to the right side. And when he opened the right door, he saw the lovely lady. The princess told him where the woman was although she was jealously. The princess was a good woman and she wanted the handsome man happy, because she loved him.
Neyda Reyes
When the young man opened the door on the right, the tiger came out. The people started to screaming and yelling because the tiger was going to eat him. The king was sad when the tiger started eating him in front of them. After that the king took the young lady out the door on the left and she saw the tiger eating the young man. She was crying and sad to watch that horrible death.
Christopher Zapata
Here is the original short story:
The Lady or the Tiger
Written by Frank Stockton
Long ago, in very olden times, there lived a powerful king. Some of his ideas were progressive. But others caused people to suffer.
One of the king's ideas was a public arena as an agent of poetic justice. Crime was punished, or innocence was decided, by the result of chance. When a person was accused of a crime, his future would be judged in the public arena.
All the people would gather in this building. The king sat high up on his ceremonial chair. He gave a sign. A door under him opened. The accused person stepped out into the arena. Directly opposite the king were two doors. They were side by side, exactly alike. The person on trial had to walk directly to these doors and open one of them. He could open whichever door he pleased.
If the accused man opened one door, out came a hungry tiger, the fiercest in the land. The tiger immediately jumped on him and tore him to pieces as punishment for his guilt. The case of the suspect was thus decided.
Iron bells rang sadly. Great cries went up from the paid mourners. And the people, with heads hanging low and sad hearts, slowly made their way home. They mourned greatly that one so young and fair, or so old and respected, should have died this way.
But, if the accused opened the other door, there came forth from it a woman, chosen especially for the person. To this lady he was immediately married, in honor of his innocence. It was not a problem that he might already have a wife and family, or that he might have chosen to marry another woman. The king permitted nothing to interfere with his great method of punishment and reward.
The Rest of the Story: The Lady or the Tiger
Another version of The Lady or the Tiger
The Lady or the Tiger
Written by Frank Stockton
Long ago, in very olden times, there lived a powerful king. Some of his ideas were progressive. But others caused people to suffer.
One of the king's ideas was a public arena as an agent of poetic justice. Crime was punished, or innocence was decided, by the result of chance. When a person was accused of a crime, his future would be judged in the public arena.
All the people would gather in this building. The king sat high up on his ceremonial chair. He gave a sign. A door under him opened. The accused person stepped out into the arena. Directly opposite the king were two doors. They were side by side, exactly alike. The person on trial had to walk directly to these doors and open one of them. He could open whichever door he pleased.
If the accused man opened one door, out came a hungry tiger, the fiercest in the land. The tiger immediately jumped on him and tore him to pieces as punishment for his guilt. The case of the suspect was thus decided.
Iron bells rang sadly. Great cries went up from the paid mourners. And the people, with heads hanging low and sad hearts, slowly made their way home. They mourned greatly that one so young and fair, or so old and respected, should have died this way.
But, if the accused opened the other door, there came forth from it a woman, chosen especially for the person. To this lady he was immediately married, in honor of his innocence. It was not a problem that he might already have a wife and family, or that he might have chosen to marry another woman. The king permitted nothing to interfere with his great method of punishment and reward.
The Rest of the Story: The Lady or the Tiger
Another version of The Lady or the Tiger
