Reading Notes: The Tiger, The Brahman, and the Jackal

Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1912).
The Tiger, The Brahman, and the Jackal

Reading Notes:

  • Begins with the tiger trapped, luring the poor passing Brahman 
  • Tricks Brahman into opening the cage
    • Brahman seems ignorant 
  • Uses beautiful imagery when describing the interaction 
  • The tiger tricks the Brahman into trusting him to then be uncaged 
  • A deal is made, introducing the other characters: the pipal-tree, the buffalo, the road 
  • All three showed no pity for the man as they had all been taken advantage by humans prior
  • All characters thus far do not favor humans  
    • meaning the tiger has had no objections in eating the Brahman
  • Brahman's despair heightens 
  • The Jackal introduces himself while presenting himself as dimwitted
  • The Jackal uses frustration to draw the tiger and the Brahman closer
    • Both the Brahman and the Jackal refer to the tiger as "My Lord" 
      • Both bottom of the human and animal totem pole 
  • Continuing to play dumb, the Jackal lures the Tiger back into the cage ending the altercation 
  • Dialogue is the primary illustrator for the story 
    • Follows an active voice 
  • The story ends how it began and was kept simple with few characters 
    • Just one isolated incident 

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