THE JUNGLE BOOK

Alessia Bianchi, Veronica Brun

Rudyard Kipling

THE AUTHOR

He was an English story writer, poet, and novelist and he was born in India in 1865. Kipling won the Nobel Prize in literature. His works of fiction are The Jungle Book, Kim and many short stories.

Description

• Stories are fairy tales, with antropomorphics characters
• Main purpose is to teach moreal lessons (e.g. importance of following rules)
• This story has origin from Kipling's kwoledge about Indian jungle

Setting

• Kipling's stories are setlled in India,where he lived during his chilhood
• Although not sure, the jungle book is most problay situated in "Oodeypore" (Udaipur).

Mowgli

THE PROTAGONIST

Mowgli is the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories. He appears in "In the Rukh" and then in "The Jungle Book" in which the author describes his chilhood. He has extraordinary skills in hunting, tracking, and driving wild animals.

Baloo

He is a bear and he is the strict teacher of the cubs of the Seeonee wolf pack.

Shere Khan

• He is the main antagonist. He is a tiger, enemy of Mowgli. He has a cruel and selfish character.
• Shere = tiger
• Khan =supremacy

Mowgli's brothers

Mowgli's brothers

The Monkey-People

The Monkey-People

Kaa's hunting

Mowgli

And the wolf-pack

Mowgli in the village, picks up fire

Mowgli discovers the village...

...and kills Shere Khan with the men buffaloes

THEMES:

Law and Freedoom

• respect for authority, obedience, knowledge one's place in society
• creation of human models through the animal characters
• rules
• moral meaning

2° theme:

Childhood abandonment

This story is somehow recolling Kipling's chilhood, when he was abandoned by his parents, replaced by his foster parent, Mrs Holloway, with whom he had similar conflict as Mowgli with the tiger Shere Khan.

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