question_answer 2)

What is the authors indirect comment on subjecting innocent animals to the wilfulness of human beings?    

Answer:

Through the story 'The Tiger King', the writer puts across his view that there is no excuse or Justification for stalking and killing an animal, u he Maharaja, the protagonist of the story, because of his blind faith, kills tigers mercilessly. Ironically, as a child he acknowledges that all those who are born will have to die one day but later sets out to try and become immortal by killing tigers indiscriminately. The author also reaffirms a very valid reason against hunting—the extinction oJ species due to human activities. Asserting the 'right' to kill animals is tike asserting the right to steal from future generations. That's what the Maharaja does—he steals from the future. The tiger population had become extinct in the territories where he had an access to kill. Hence the next generation would not have the 'right' to see and learn from the bountiful earth that they inherited, because it would have been left barren.