The first days of spring are the best days.
You can tell this because it says 'Nature's first green.'
The king had the motive to send a message to all the subjects of his kingdom that if anybody commite a crime he will also be put in the arena and will be eaten up by ferocious animals like tiger
In the story one yound man in love of the princes which is forbidden in that country as the man is not from the family of king
So the young man was put in the arena to face a tiger.
