The story is a satire on the conceit of those in power. How does the author employ the literary device of dramatic irony in the story?
The story definitely is the satire on the conceit of those in power. From the very beginning the king known to be an extremely conceited person. When he was 10 days old he suddenly spoke “let the tiger beware” and challenged the prediction of the astrologer. When he grew up he killed all the tigers in his village and later he married a princess of another village which had most number of tigers so that he could kill 100 tigers. He gave 50 rings to foreigner to show his power of money and richness. He killed 99 tigers in actual because 100th tiger was killed by the sound of the fire of bullet but he thought he killed 100th tiger and started celebrating. However, the astrologer’s prediction stood vindicated as the king was killed by a wooden tiger as a small sliver of wooden tiger pricked in his hand.
How would you describe the behaviour of the Maharaja’s minions towards him? Do you find them truly sincere towards him or are they driven by fear when they obey him? Do we find a similarity in today’s political order?
What is the author’s indirect comment on subjecting innocent animals to the willfulness of human beings?
What will now happen to the astrologer? Do you think the prophecy was indisputably disproved?
Who is the Tiger King? Why does he get that name?
What will the Maharaja do to find the required number of tigers to kill?
What did the royal infant grow up to be?
How will the Maharaja prepare himself for the hundredth tiger which was supposed to decide his fate?
We need a new system for the age of ecology - a system which is embedded in the care of all people and also in the care of the Earth and all life upon it. Discuss.
Can you relate instances of game-hunting among the rich and the powerful in the present times that illustrate the callousness of human beings towards wildlife?
Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house?
Who is Jo? How does she respond to her father’s story-telling?
The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?
What does the third level refers to?
‘The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica.’ How is the study of this region useful to us?
What kind of a person was Evans?
It may take a long time for oppression to be resisted, but the seeds of rebellion are sowed early in life. Do you agree that injustice in any form cannot escape being noticed even by children?
What are Geoff Green’s reasons for including high school students in the Students on Ice expedition?
What were the precautions taken for the smooth conduct of the examination?
Bama’s experience is that of a victim of the caste system. What kind of discrimination does Zitkala-Sa’s experience depict? What are their responses to their respective situations?
Philately helps keep the past alive. Discuss other ways in which this is done. What do you think of the human tendency to constantly move between the past, the present and the future?
While hatred against a member of the enemy race is justifiable, especially during wartime, what makes a human being rise above narrow prejudices?
What do you infer from Sam’s letter to Charley?
The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?
What are Geoff Green’s reasons for including high school students in the Students on Ice expedition?
Who was Dr Sadao? Where was his house?
You have read ‘Adventure’ by Jayant Narlikar in Hornbill Class XI. Compare the interweaving of fantasy and reality in the two stories.
Did the Governor and his staff finally heave a sigh of relief?
When Stephens comes back to the cell he jumps to a conclusion and the whole machinery blindly goes by his assumption without even checking the identity of the injured ‘McLeery’. Does this show how hasty conjectures can prevent one from seeing the obvious? How is the criminal able to predict such negligence?
What possible plot line could the story continue with?