a book review on jungle book
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The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves.
Originally published: 1894
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Genre: Children's literature
Illustrator: John Lockwood Kipling
Characters: Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera, Shere Khan, Kaa, Akela, Tabaqui, Raksha, Colonel Hathi, Father Wolf, Ikki
BOOK REVIEW
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling has been reviewed by Focus on the Family’s marriage and parenting magazine.
PLOT SUMMARY
The Jungle Book is a collection of stories and poems, and is not a single tale. Each piece is summarized below.
Mowgli's Brothers — Father Wolf is surprised to see a man cub enter his den. When Shere Khan, the limping tiger, tries to take the man cub, he becomes stuck in the den's entrance. Mother and Father Wolf refuse to give the man cub to the tiger. When their other cubs are able to run, Mother and Father Wolf take the man cub, called Mowgli, and their other cubs to Council Rock. One by one, the cubs are presented and accepted by the pack. To be accepted means that the pack will protect them until they kill their first buck. Because Mowgli is a man cub and not a wolf, Akela, the leader, asks for two animals, other than his wolf parents, to speak for him. Baloo, a brown bear, and Bagheera, a black panther, speak for him, so he is accepted into the Free People (wolf pack). As Mowgli grows, he learns the Law of the Jungle. When he is a little older, Bagheera sends him to bring back the Red Flower (fire) from a man village. Mowgli finds and carries it back in a pot and feeds it with twigs and grass. Meanwhile, Akela misses his kill, which means that he will be removed as the leader of the Free People. The Wolf Pack meets at Council Rock to officially remove Akela from his position and kill him. Since Akela can no longer protect Mowgli, Shere Khan demands Mowgli be returned to him. The wolves agree. Then Mowgli produces the Red Flower from the pot. He denounces the Free People for their betrayal of him and Akela, excluding Mother and Father Wolf and his brother cubs, and forces Shere Khan to leave by singeing his fur. Mowgli declares that he won't return to Council Rock until he has Shere Khan's hide. He leaves to find a man village.