Tiger Eyes has been reprinted over a dozen times throughout the years. Davey, with nobody to turn to to comfort or friendship, would most certainly resort to an active fantasy life. This is a shame, not just because I don't like when authors feel pressured to censor their work, but also because I really think it fits with the story.
In Places I Never Meant to Be, Blume explained that, in order to appeal to a larger audience, she voluntarily censored a scene from Tiger Eyes in which Davey masturbates while thinking of Wolf.Davey never even considered using alcohol as a coping mechanism, the story mostly uses Jane as a cautionary tale. I feel like Blume missed a chance at some tension with Davey and alcohol.I feel like a couple threads in the book, specifically the whereabouts of Wolf and Jane's alcoholism, were left unresolved.Blume herself lived in Los Alamos, New Mexico in the 1970s, so she surely experienced the racism firsthand. I like how Blume doesn't hide the overt racism of white Americans against Hispanics, even when they're living in a region that, by all rights, belongs to them.There is an important message of not letting terrifying things scare you into never taking a chance ever again.Blume does a good job at covering a lot of teen issues without ever making them seem like caricatures.
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