Friendships and relationships often bring out the best in people, but they can also be painful and challenging; especially when a person has to end their relationship or friendship against their own will. Rolf Carlé meets a young girl who makes him relive his miserable childhood memories. Rolf Carlé forms a special bond with this young girl because of the bond of helplessness they both felt at one time or another, but this bond is severed when the young girl dies. Similar to Rolf Carlé, the princess of “The Lady or the Tiger” has someone she loves dearly taken away by force when her father discovers their relationship. Rolf Carlé and the princess are bonded to each other because of their true love for someone who is taken from them as their beloved is forced to separate from them. Rolf Carlé is a man who went through many difficulties in his childhood. He was alive during the Holocaust and Russian soldiers took him and his family to concentration camps to bury prisoners who died of starvation. He still had fresh in his mind the image of naked bodies piled up like a mountain of firewood, which he saw as a fragile China. As a child, he was also beaten by his father and owned a wardrobe in which his father locked him for imaginary misbehavior. Her father was also disgraced by his own daughter because she was mentally retarded. This young girl, Katharina, spent her life in hiding and as Rolf was extremely close to her, he hid under the kitchen table with her. Rolf's mother put him on a ship to South America, and as Rolf remembered his past, he felt like he had abandoned his sweet sister Katharina. When Rolf meets Azucen... middle of paper ...... his love for this man dies. Although the loves of Rolf Carlé and the princess are different types of love, they both have people. they love and care become beyond their reach without their control. The people they truly care about could die and it's up to them to try and save their loved ones. These two characters are very similar in this way, and they both have to make quick decisions without enough time to think. Rolf must try to quickly obtain the materials needed to save someone he has an affection for, while the princess must rush into the decision of whether to give her lover to someone else or have him killed by a tiger to ensure that it will not form a new one. relationship. Rolf Carlé and the princess are bonded to each other because of their true love for someone who is taken away from them as their loved one is forced to separate from them..