“The Tiger Who Understood People” is very similar to Animal Farm. They both have very comparable morals but, different endings.“The Tiger Who Understood People” is an allegory with an ironic conclusion like Animal Farm with morals to enlighten the readers.
“The Tiger Who Understood People” is a fictional story of animals acting like humans to trick animals for food. This is an example of an allegory because it shows that the animals are acting like people who lie and cheat to get through life. This example is used because “There’s no use in you and me hunting for food; we’ll make the other animals bring it to us.” ( Thurber, par. 1) The Tiger and the Leopard also lie to get their food. One example is “Later you can say you broke a bone in your paw during the second round and I will say I broke a bone in my paw during the first round.” ( Thurber, par. 1) …show more content…
The conclusion of the story is “The animals all saw the logic of this and stayed away from the arena. When it got to be midnight and it was obvious that none of the animals would appear and that there wouldn’t be any wild-boar meat to devour, the tiger and the leopard fell upon each other in a rage. They were both injured so badly and they were both so worn out by hunger that a couple of wild boars who came wandering along attacked them and killed them easily.” ( Thurber, par. 2) This is very ironic because earlier in the story they said they weren’t going to hurt each other that bad, but in the end they hurt themselves so badly that they are finally killed by the food they wanted for the fake
“The Tiger Who Understood People” is a fictional story of animals acting like humans to trick animals for food. This is an example of an allegory because it shows that the animals are acting like people who lie and cheat to get through life. This example is used because “There’s no use in you and me hunting for food; we’ll make the other animals bring it to us.” ( Thurber, par. 1) The Tiger and the Leopard also lie to get their food. One example is “Later you can say you broke a bone in your paw during the second round and I will say I broke a bone in my paw during the first round.” ( Thurber, par. 1) …show more content…
The conclusion of the story is “The animals all saw the logic of this and stayed away from the arena. When it got to be midnight and it was obvious that none of the animals would appear and that there wouldn’t be any wild-boar meat to devour, the tiger and the leopard fell upon each other in a rage. They were both injured so badly and they were both so worn out by hunger that a couple of wild boars who came wandering along attacked them and killed them easily.” ( Thurber, par. 2) This is very ironic because earlier in the story they said they weren’t going to hurt each other that bad, but in the end they hurt themselves so badly that they are finally killed by the food they wanted for the fake