Question

Narrate the circumstances that led to the dispute between the man and the elephant in ‘The

Gentlemen of the Jungle’.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

The story, „The Gentlemen of The Jungle‟ discusses the whites‟ colonial and

imperial attitude towards the Blacks. Their idea of „Expansion‟ is reflected and made

clear in the fable through the jungle animals. The innocent man represents the Black

Africans, and the animals represent the Whites in the story. The kindness of man was

misunderstood as his weakness by Mr. Elephant and his friends. Mr. Elephant, who

was also one of the honourable ministers of the jungle kingdom made a friendship

with the man intentionally. He also had a plan to occupy his hut in future. So, he went

with his plan accordingly on the day of torrential rain and pleaded the innocent man to

give him a space to protect his trunk. The kind-hearted man didn‟t understand that and

allowed him to keep only his trunk inside the hut by believing the sweet-coated words

of Mr Elephant. The silver-tongued Elephant slowly occupied the man‟s hut and had

flung the man out in the rain as the Whites did for the Blacks. The man got angry and

started to grumble, but it was not useful. The Lion, the king of the jungle came along

with roaring and appointed a commission of enquiry called „The Imperial

Commission‟. The Lion had given the false assurance that he would get justice after

the Impartial Enquiry. But he was not given any chance to state his case against Mr.

Elephant. Finally, the man had to give up his hut for his „So Called‟ friend