Hello readers, this blog is a part of my bachlore of Arts syllabus. This blog discusses about the short story of James Corbett. So let's begin.
About the author:
Edward James Corbett CIE VD (25 July 1875 – 19 April 1955) was an Anglo-Indian hunter and author. He gained fame through hunting and killing several man-eating tigers and leopards in Northern India, as detailed in his bestselling 1944 memoir Man-Eaters of Kumaon. In his later years, he became an outspoken advocate of the nascent conservation movement. Born in NainiTal, Corbett explored and hunted in the jungles of India in childhood. He shot his first man-eater in 1907 and continued to hunt and kill such animals over the next four decades. Animals such as the Champawat Tiger, the Leopard of Rudraprayag, and the Panar Leopard had taken hundreds of victims in the divisions of Kumaon and Garwhal, before their deaths at Corbett's hands.
About the Story:
Jim Corbett has presented his experience on the natural and challenging place where he visited and came across with a dangerous problem, then at the end he shares his personal feeling with successful and failed experiences. Jim is an experienced one to describe the short story writing with very minute points.
“The Tiger Smiled” is a short story which provides the full description on Nature place with the writer's own experience. Here , We find where writer express his opinion and liking with his own activities at Chowgrah, A Hundred Yards along the path we went to a Ravine, decided to lake to the ravine , follow it down to its junction with the valley, and picked up the path on far side of the undergrowth.
Now, He starts with a storyline where he saw at the spot from which the bird had risen and saw two eggs. As soon as he founded that these eggs, straw –colored, with rich brown makings, were of a most unusual shape, one being long and very pointed which the other way as sounded as a marble and as his collection lacked nightjar eggs to add this odd clutch to it, so cupping his left hand he placed the eggs in it packed them round with a little moss.
As he went down banks became higher and sixty yards from where he had entered it, came on a deep drop of some twelve to fourteen feet. Jim, writer, handed the rifle, after sometimes, he came to know that the tigers followed him and other two men who were with him to help them, after they left the open grounds. So, the three of them, stood in a bunch. They had the smooth , steep rock behind us, to our right a wall of rock slightly leaning over a ravine and fifteen feet high.
At last , he shot the tigress ,after such a long process of swinging with single handed and at last he gets successes to kill a tigress after three fail attempt and three more things , each of which would too been to his disadvantage , were actually in his favor.These were
1) The eggs in his left hand.
2) The light rifle he was carrying and
3) The tiger, being a man, entered.
Thus, at last he cut the bread of life that had cut the threads of sixty four human lives and kept the eggs, at the safe place which was replaced with a different look, at last.
I hope this would be helpful,
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