Class 12 English - Vistas - Chapter The Tiger King NCERT Solutions | What is the author’s indirect comm

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?

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 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?

Dr Sadao was compelled by his duty as a doctor to help the enemy soldier. What made Hana, his wife, sympathetic to him in the face of open defiance from the domestic staff?

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?

Will the exam now go as scheduled?

Did the Governor and his staff finally heave a sigh of relief?

Who is Jo? How does she respond to her father’s story-telling?

How does Jo want the story to end and why?

The two accounts that you read above are based in two distant cultures. What is the commonality of theme found in both of them?

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?

Reflecting on the story, what did you feel about Evans’ having the last laugh?

What were the precautions taken for the smooth conduct of the examination?