1. What secret did the astrologer reveal at the birth of the prince?2. What was incredible about the infant’s reaction to the astrologer’s prophecy?3. How did the tiger pose a threat to the king?4. What is the significance of the prince’s utterance Let tigers beware?
5. Bring out the humour in the upbringing of the prince.
6.Bring out the element of humour, satire and irony in the story The Tiger
King.
7.What danger loomed over the Maharajah’s throne? How did he succeed in
dispelling it?
8.The king spent a lifetime trying to kill hundred tigers but his death came
due to a toy tiger. Comment9. How did the Maharaja kill the hunderdth tiger?10.The title of the Maharaja refelected grandeur but his death was an anticlimax. Justify.11.How did the tiger king meet his end? What is ironical about his death?12. What idea do
Answers
1. The astrologers anticipated that the crown ruler was conceived in the hour of the bull. Since the tiger and bull are adversaries essentially, so the lord will be executed by a tiger.
2. The infant was not petrified; instead he growled that tigers should be cautious about him.
3. According to the prophecy, if the king did not kill hundred tigers, definitely he will be killed by a tiger.
4. He grew up searching tigers and killing all of them. He married a woman whose father had so many tigers. And then there were no tigers left in the forest. He rejoiced when he thought the hundredth lion has also been eliminated, only to get killed by a toy tiger.
5. The Tiger King takes steps to chase a hundred tigers to invalidate the expectation of the prophecy. In his willfulness, he falls prey to a wooden tiger.
6. The humor is that even after he thought he has killed hundred tigers, he was killed by a toy tiger. In his life time, he was with full of fear and killed so many tigers.
7. The danger came for Maharaja's throne in the form of tiger. By killing the tigers, he succeeded in dispelling it.
8. In his life he searched and killed nearly 100 tigers. But the 100th tiger got missed. Due to the toy tiger he got his death. One can never change his destiny.
9. His dewan arranged for the hundredth tiger. The king shot the arrow on the tiger. But the arrow got collapsed and tiger never died. It escaped with a little wound.
10. Yes the Maharaja was considered as the grandeur but his fear and thought about killing tigers lead to his death.
11. Finally the Maharaja attained death by a toy tiger. There was a silver pin at the head of toy tiger. That silver pin pierced in his hand. Due to infection on all over the body, he died.