Tiger benign. In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, tigers are fiercer and more ruthless than lions. The tiger's tail appears in stories from countries including China and Korea, it being generally inadvisable to grasp a tiger by the tail. In William Blake's poem in the "Songs of Experience", titled "The Tyger," the tiger is a menacing and fearful animal. In Yann Martel's 2001 Man Booker Prize winning novel "Life of Pi", the protagonist, surviving shipwreck for months in a small boat, somehow avoids being eaten by the other survivor, a large Bengal tiger. The story was adapted in Ang Lee's 2012 feature
Richard Thomas Parker Richard Thomas Parker Richard Thomas Parker (1834 - 10 August 1864) was an English murderer who was the last person to be publicly executed in Nottingham. He was christened in Thurgarton on 26 October 1834. Richard Thomas Parker of Fiskerton, a butcher, was publicly declared bankrupt in November, 1862 at Newark. After a drunken row with Samuel Parker, his father, at their home in Fiskerton in Nottinghamshire, Parker shot his father and his mother, Elizabeth Parker, formerly Miss Tutbury. Parker's father survived, but his mother lingered on for several weeks and died on 16 May 1864 . Parker was tried