The Tiger King

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NCERT Class 12 English Core Chapter wise Solutions

Flamingo – Prose

• 1: The Last Lesson (Alphonse Daudet)
• 2: Lost Spring (Anees Jung)
• 3: Deep Water (William Douglas)
• 4: The Rattrap (Selma Lagerlof)
• 5: Indigo (Louis Fischer)
• 6: Going Places (A. R. Barton)

Flamingo – Poetry

• 1: My Mother at Sixty – Six (Kamala Das)
• 2: An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum (Stephen Spender)
• 3: Keeping Quiet (Pablo Neruda)
• 4: A Thing of Beauty (John Keats)
• 5: Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers (Adrienne Rich)

Vistas – Supplementary Reader

• 1: The Third Level (Jack Finney)
• 2. The Tiger King (Kalki)
• 3. Journey to the end of the Earth (Tishani Doshi)
• 4. The Enemy Pearl (S. Buck)
• 5. Should Wizard hit Mommy (John Updike)
• 6. On the face of It (Susan Hill)
• 7. Evans Tries an O-level (Colin Dexter

NCERT Solutions for class 12 English Core Vistas The Tiger King

Read and Find Out

1. Who is the Tiger King? Why does he get that name?

1. What did the royal infant grow up to be?

1. What will the Maharaja do to find the required number of tigers to kill?

1. How will the Maharaja prepare himself for the hundredth tiger which was supposed to decide his fate?

1. What will now happen to the astrologer? Do you think the prophecy was indisputably disproved?

Reading with Insight
1. 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?

2. What is the author’s indirect comment on subjecting innocent animals to the willfulness of human beings?

3. 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?

4. 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?