Kunwar Singh Analysis

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GOOD ADVICE Kunwar Singh by Jim Corbett is repute with advices passing from one to another. In a simple style and language, the narration takes us into the adventures of Kunwar Singh and Har Singh and the sad-episode in Kunwar Singh’s life. Though these stories, the importance of sound advice and the necessity to follow them has been clearly stated, as in the advice of Kunwar Singh to Har Singh, Kunwar Singh to Jim Corbett and Jim Corbett to Kunwar Singh. In the first instance, we see a ‘good advice’ from Kunwar Singh to Har Singh, when the former adviced the latter to return when a fox crossed their path on their way to hunt in the jungle. It was a sign of bad luck but Har Singh brushed it off as a child’s talk. The consequences of not following the…show more content…
Har Singh was caught by the tiger which had its claws driven inside his stomach. This happened because Har Singh was no climb not advised to climb trees when he was a boy and was unable to climb trees. Kunwar Singh tries to convey to Jim Corbett the necessity of learning to climb trees for men who shoot in the jungle. The third advice is seen when Corbett advises his senior friend to strain away from the fatal opium responsible for ruining his life. Corbett had warned him against his addiction to opium but he refused to listen to the advice and the result being that he lay on his bed waiting for death. Kunwar Singh from a strong man and a responsible headman of Chandni Chauk was reduced to a weakling suffering from malaria and the ill effects of the opium. Jim Corbett again advices Kunwar Singh not to take the drug anymore and makes him take an oath on the thread of his son. Thus, we see how ‘good advice’ is central to the narration of the story and it is through such advises that both Har Singh and Jim Corbett learn a lesson in their lives and also prevents the early death of Kunwar
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