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Critical Evaluation

(CRITICAL SURVEY OF LITERATURE FOR STUDENTS)

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Although originally published separately, The Jungle Books are usually combined into one volume. For most readers, The Jungle Books tell the story of Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves to become ruler of the jungle, only to have to return to the human world as an adult. Mowgli’s adventures in fact take up only eight of the fifteen stories that make up The Jungle Books, but those eight stories captivate the reader’s imagination in a way that the others do not. Mowgli’s story is essentially a reworking of an ancient folklore theme, the child raised by animals. In most versions of this motif, human society remains the frame of reference; the child’s animal existence is simply a prelude to his or her reintegration into humanity. In contrast, Kipling places Mowgli in the context of a complete jungle society, which appears more attractive than the few glimpses of the human world allowed into the stories. Although Mowgli’s return to the outside world is predicted in the first of the stories, it is his development within the animal world that interests the author. Kipling wrote one story about Mowgli as an adult in the human world, but he did not choose