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Analyzing Kipling's 'The Jungle Book'

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Introduction The Jungle Book is about a boy who grows up in the jungle. He is taught the law of the jungle and how to live like animals do. He grows up in his life learning like the animals do and does not know a lot on how humans act. He lives a good life and even accomplishes a task that no other animal could do. The Jungle Book teaches many stories on how animals overcome their problems in life and how they act while trying to overcome their problems. Kipling, Pg. 2-188 Topic 1 One day, when Shere Khan was hunting, he found a man's cub a tried to steal him from the family. The man's cub ended up in Father and Mother Wolf's cave and they named him Mowgli, which meant frog. At Council Rock, Mowgli was taken in by Baloo, the bear that was …show more content…

Baloo nor Bagheera ever mentioned anything about the monkeys to Mowgli. One day when Mowgli had gotten mad at Baloo, Mowgli climbed up a tree and the monkeys came over to him. Mowgli did not know that the monkeys had no law or that they did not follow the Law of the Jungle. He started talking to them and then Baloo told him to come down from the tree. Kipling, Pg. 29-37 That afternoon, the monkeys came down from the tree and kidnapped Mowgli while he, Baloo, and Bagheera were taking a nap. Baloo and Bagheera woke up and saw the monkeys running away with Mowgli. They tried to run after him but could not catch him because the monkeys traveled by tree and it was much faster than land. They decided to give up on running and decided to get Kaa, the snake which every monkey feared. Kaa agreed because he had heard of the man's cub. Kaa and Bagheera were faster than Baloo so they went ahead of him and he said he would be their later. Kipling, Pg. …show more content…

The moment the big man saw Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and the snake, he got his gun and killed Nag.. The next day, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi went to the melon bed, where Nag and Nagaina's eggs were. He smashed all of them besides one which he kept in his mouth and went to Nagaina. When he had gotten to where Nagaina was she was threatening Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by keeping Tommy and his parents close enough where she could strike. Kipling, Pg. 128-132 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi told her she had one egg left and she moved and went towards him. Nagaina got her egg and ran to her hole, which is where she lived, and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi followed her. No animal has ever made it out alive when they went into a snake's den. Only one animal would come out, and that animal was Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. He had killed all the snakes of the garden. The garden was happy again. Birds and frogs were singing and everything was happy. Kipling, Pg.

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