The Jungle Book Essays

  • 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

  • Bullies In The Jungle Book

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    The Jungle Book, written by Rudyard Kipling, includes a group of monkeys known as the Bandar-log. The Bandar-log monkeys are like modern day bullies. Their actions, speech, and characterizations all contribute to their bullying personalities. To begin with, the Bandar-log´s recreational time is spent torturing others. Usually, this is done to gain attention from the Jungle People, but they also enjoy it. The Bandar-log tortures only the sick and injured because they know they cannot handle the

  • The Second Jungle Book Theme Analysis

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    different themes in The Second Jungle Book. Most of the stories told relate to the animals of the jungle and their lives. The stories relate to their laws, old members who lived there, and incidences with the human village. Some of the different themes are the importance of laws and traditions, money isn’t everything, and destruction. These are just a few of the many displayed in The Second Jungle Book. There are many different themes portrayed in the second Jungle Book. The theme in the first story

  • Book Summary: The Jungle, By Upton Sinclair

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    The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The Jungle by Upton Sinclair truly exemplifies the difficulties immigrant’s families run into when pursuing the “American Dream.” The Jungle can be evaluated as a primary source as it uses direct evidence in Chicago in PackingTown district. PackingTown District is known to be Chicago’s biggest meatpacking industry. Written during the Progressive Era it revealed the many dangerous and horrible conditions that are in the meatpacking industry. It uses vivid description

  • Book Design Of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

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    The following book design is on The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. The picture I drew on the on the cover represents the dark city and factories in the book. It relates to how the working conditions were. I chose gray and black because it was a harsh time, as well as blue and green, which stands for the sadness and the greed of money. The theme is capitalism, it depicts how everyone was effected during this era. The cover doesn’t reveal anything about the characters besides that they did work harsh jobs

  • Review Of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle: A Book For Societal Change

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    A Book for Societal Change As one thinks about the change brought about by a book named The Jungle, one might think of its call to preserve forests or wildlife. However, in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, he writes about something completely different. Sinclair writes this book to expose the meat packing industry and its horrific conditions for the meat and for the workers while also promoting socialism as the ideal form of government. His socialists views expressed in the book lead the book to be

  • Brief Summary Of The Book 'Mr. Linden's Jungle'

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    Mr. Linden warned her about this book, now it is too late. This book has powers that only one person has experienced before. That person is Mr. Linden. That's why he tried to talk her out of checking out the book. Mr. Linden knows the consequences of checking out this book. The book's title is Jungle. The story of a girl who gets lost in the jungle on a family vacation, to Brazil's fascinating yet dangerous jungles. Julia, the girl who checked out the book. Normal girl with dark brown hair

  • Bandar Log

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    I’m sure you have heard of The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling. In the chapter of Kaa’s Hunting, Bandar-log, the monkeys, are very similar to the bullies in real live. I assume that Kipling wanted to reflect how the Bandar-log are similar to the bullies. The Bandar-log are like bullies in many ways in the story. Including how they speak, act, and think. If you compare the Bandar-log and the bullies in real live, you’ll see how similar they are. To start with, the first way how Kipling instructed

  • Is The Sound Of Music, Psycho, And Breakfast At Tiffany's

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    You’re sitting in a movie theater, it’s dark and cool, what’s playing on the screen. Is it The Sound Of Music, Psycho, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. In any case, these are just a couple of movies released in the 1960’s. The Jungle Book. Released on october 18, 1967, has become one of the most popular Disney movie out there, for it’s family friendly action and adventure. The movie was directed by, Wolfgang Reitherman. He created a film is about a “man cub” named Mowgli. He was abandoned at a young age and

  • How Does Rikki Tavi Show Courage

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    Rikki Tikki Tavi is a book of a brave mongoose trying to save the day by fighting off cobras. In this book we see Rudyard Kipling’s own experiences living in India like Rikki Tikki living in humid India. Rikki Tikki is a brave mongoose who risks his life for others. He was very loving because he put others first. This book takes place in humid India meaning there are cobras. This means Rikki Tikki can show his bravery fighting the cobras, saving the humans and other animals. He is confident in his

  • Tikki Tavi Compare And Contrast

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    “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” is a story about a boy that almost gets killed by a snake called “Nagaina”, and a mongoose saves him multiple times! The author of this story is Rudyard Kipling, the person you would probably think of! He wrote a story called “Jungle Book”. Nagaina is a terrorizing snake! Nagaina is the evil snake that is trying to kill Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and the boy! She (the snake) has almost killed the boy multiple times, but Rikki-Tikki-Tavi has saved the boy from getting killed from Nagaina!

  • Tikki Tavi Character Analysis

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    The short story I chose was “Rikki-tikki-tavi” created from an author named Rudyard Kipling from “The Jungle Book” and the main protagonist was a young mongoose named Rikki-tikki-tavi. The story was about Rikki-tikki-tavi after being adopted from a British family residing in India as a pet. Rikki’s desire was to kill any snakes that try to hurt his new family. Rikki was a character that was brave, intelligent, helpful, and extremely serious about protecting his family. Also Rikki has changed from

  • Rikki Tavi Characters

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    Rikki-tikki-tavi is an interesting short story about a brave house mongoose that protects a family of 3 with a little kid named Teddy. The mongoose goes by the name Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. The story is written by Rudyard Kipling who is also the writer of the Jungle Book. I will focus this essay of Nagaina who is one of the antagonists of the story. She is the evil wife of Nag and they are both king cobras. In the the story she clearly shows that she is a wicked, vengeful, and protective character. Nagaina

  • Cause And Effect Of Tikki-Tavi

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    Rikki-tikki-tavi was written by Rudyard Kipling. This story was from “The Jungle Book, Volume Two.” Rikki-tikki-tavi, also known as Rikki-tikki, was a mongoose who’s home was flooded one summer day, was found by human family, and then was taken in. In this story, Rikki-Tikki had different actions for each event, but he had reasons for this. He was loyal, but had to act differently sometimes to save his owners lives and everyone else's life as well. Even at times he was rude but other times he was

  • Summary Of The Jungle Book

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    THE JUNGLE BOOK (1894) By: Rudyard Kipling INTRODUCTION. The Jungle Book its written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling or simply known as Rudyard Kipling, he was a British author and poet best known for the jungle book published in 1894 and it’s regarded as major innovation in the art of short story. This is live and action story about of the jungle in India. In the jungle book there is man named Mowgli who was adopted

  • Stereotypes Of The Jungle Book

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    brand new Walt Disney film by the name of The Jungle Book was released in this decade, more specifically in 1967. This film, unbeknownst to Disney at the time, became a classic over the next several decades. With its whimsical jungle setting, charming music, and unique atmosphere, The Jungle Book encapsulates an enjoyable fantasy tale. However, within this film, there are multiple misrepresentations of various groups of people. In Walt Disney's film The Jungle

  • Imperialism In The Jungle Book

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    been taking over the movie industry and is rapidly on the rise. This has made a boom in finding the real and humanized meaning behind the once fun and reckless children’s movies. Furthermore, Jon Favreau’s film, The Jungle Book, which brings to life Rudyard Kipling’s original children’s book, has recently caught a lot of viewers’ attention. Disney studios accidentally expresses colonization and imperialism in the film. With these hidden themes of colonization and imperialism, the film demonstrates a

  • Bullies In The Jungle Book

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    The Bandar-log or the Monkey-people in Rudyard Kipling’s book The Jungle Books can be described as bullies. The Bandar-log act like some of the bullies we have today in the real world. The Bandar-log call the Jungle-people many names. The Bandar-log have called Kaa The Rock Snake a “footless, yellow earthworm,”(Kipling,7) Bullies today also call people names. Hurtful names. The Bandar-log are not honest. “They lie. They have always lied.” (Kipling,3) the Bandar-log take things that are not their

  • A Midsummer's Night Dream And The Odyssey Comparison

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    Every story is different; however, they can share similar qualities. Stories can be powerful as the characters experience mirrors similar pathways to ourselves. For instance, obstacles or unknown events and how they find a way for it to resolve can look like our own. A great story contains many different elements. A Midsummer’s Night Dream and The Odyssey are two exciting stories that share similarities and differences. Three important elements between these stories are the conflict between the characters

  • Tikki Tavi Quotes

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    Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a brave hero in the story by Rudyard Kipling that is smaller than other people and animals but he’s not any different. Rikki is as curious as any other animal and he fights for other people that can’t and when he first got flooded away by a flood and moved away from his family he was wet and he had nowhere to go but a british family helped him. He liked to wander around and go smell the roses and sleep and eat he didn’t want to eat to much so he wouldn’t be so slow so when