Richard Parker was so named because of a clerical error. A panther was terrorising the Khulna district of Bangladesh, just outside the Sundarbans. It has recently carried off a little girl. She was the seventh person killed in two months by the animal. And it was growing bolder. The previous victim was a man who had been attacked in broad daylight in his field. The beast dragged him off into the forest and his corpse was later found hanging from a tree. The villagers kept a watch nearby that night, hoping to surprise the panther and kill it, but it never appeared.
The Forest Department hired a professional hunter. He set up a small, hidden platform in a tree near a river where two of the attacks had taken place. A goat was tied to a stake on the river’s bank. He hunter waited several nights. He assumed the panther would be an old, wasted male with worn teeth, incapable of catching anything more difficult than a human. But it was a sleek tiger that stepped into the open one night: a female with a single cub. The goat bleated. Oddly, the cub, who looked to be about three months old, paid little attention to the goat. It raced to the water’s edge, where it drank eagerly. Its mother followed it. Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater urge. Only once the tiger had quenched her thirst did she turn to the goat to satisfy her hunger.
The hunter had two rifles with him: one with real bullets, the other with immobilising darts. This animal was not a man-eater, but was so close to human habitation that she might pose a threat to the villagers, especially as she was with cub. He picked up the gun with the darts. He fired as the tiger was about to attack the goat. The tiger reared up and snarled and raced away. But immobilising darts don’t bring on sleep gently, they knock the creature out without warning. A burst of activity on the animal’s part makes it act all the faster.
The hunter, whose name was Richard Parker, picked it up and with his bare hands and remembering how it has rushed to drink in river, named it Thirsty. But the shipping clerk at the Howrah train station was evidently a man both confused and diligent. All the papers received with the cub clearly stated that its name was None Given. Richard Parker’s name stuck. I don’t know if the hunter was ever called Thirsty None Given!
i) Why does the author say that the panther ‘was getting bolder’?
ii) Why did the Forest Department hire a professional hunter?
iii) What did the hunter expect to encounter? What did he actually encounter?
iv) What did the tiger do before it turned to attack the goat? Why did it do that?
v) Why did the hunter decide to shoot the tiger though he knew it was not the man-eater?
vi) What name did the hunter give the cub? Why?
vii) In not more than 60 words, narrate how the hunter and his assistant captured the cub.
viii) Give a suitable title to your summary in question no. (vii). Give a reason to justify your choice.
Answers
(a)
corpse - dead body
quenched - satisfied
reared - got up
(b)
The panther was getting bolder as it had killed seven persons in two months. Very recently, it carried off a little girl and the previous victim had been a man who was attacked in broad daylight in his field.
The forest department hired a professional hunter because a panther was terrorizing the villagers of the Kulna district of Bangladesh. The panther had killed seven persons in two months. The villager’s efforts to kill the panther had failed.
The hunter expected that the panther world is an old, wasted male with worn teeth, incapable of catching anything more difficult than a human. He found that it was a sleek tiger, a female with a single cub.
The tiger followed the cub to the water’s edge to drink water before she turned to the goat to satisfy her hunger. Thirst is a greater urge than hunger.
The hunter decided to shoot the tiger though he knew it was not the man-eater because it was very close to. human habitation and might pose a threat to the villagers, especially since she was with cub.
The hunter named the cub ‘Thirsty’ as he remembered how the cub had rushed to drink water in the river.
Explanation:
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Answer:
Explanation:
(i) Corpse: A dead body.
Quenched: Satisfy one's thirst.
Reared: Look after
(ii) The author said this because none of the villagers was able to face and catch the panther.
(iii) The forest department hired a professional hunter because he was trained and skilled to encounter dangerous animals. He thought it would be a man but it was a female tiger.
(iv) The tiger quenched her thirst before turning to the goat as she was thirsty.
(v) He decided to shoot the tiger to calm the villagers from frightening.
(vi) The hunter named the cub "Thirsty None Given".