Jungle Book

Summary:

The story The Jungle Book is a collection of stories written about the ecosystems and everyone’s part in it. This book is written mostly from the animals point of view telling their feelings and their unheard laws. The book was written in a very simple form and was very easy to read, understand, and analyze.

This story was broken up into seven parts. The first three parts were coinciding and had the same characters throughout. The other four stories were entirely separate although they all had the same theme.

Plot Analysis:

All of the stories from the jungle book are written about animals. The animals have to prove things to other animals, and their struggles and victories make up the stories.

Stories of Mowgli

This collection of stories is about a boy that lived in the jungle. Mowgli was raised by wolves after his family was frightened away by a tiger named Shere Khan. Shere Khan wanted to eat the boy but the wolves would not let him. Mowgli grew up in the way of the wolves and the ways of the jungle. He learned all these from a bear named Baloo. Shere

Khan turned the rest of the wolf pack away from Mowgli and so he had to leave. Mowgli then went to live with the humans of the area for a while, but after Mowgli killed Shere

Khan they also threw him out. Mowgli went back to the wolf pack and showed them all that he was boss and took over the leaders position.

The White Seal

This story is about a baby seal that grows up in a nursery on St. Paul Island. This baby seal is the first white seal that has ever been born. His name is Kotick. After two years Kotick follows a group of seals that are being herded by men. The men chase them to a slaughter pen. Kotick sees what happens and goes to talk to his parents about it. His parents tell him that this has happened for hundreds of years and will happen for hundreds of more years. Kotick decides that he will try to find an island where all the seals can live without any fear of men. He swims for two years trying to find this island. He starts to ask around the sea people to see if they have ever heard of this type of island. The sea people tell him that the Sea Cow should know. Kotick finds the Sea Cow and asks him to where the island is. The Sea Cow doe...

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...ne of great importance. It was that each person should learn to live and cooperate with their neighbors, and also learn to appreciate the animals.

Style:

The authors style was very easy to read and follow. Some of the stories were however quite childish and lacking in adventure. The author could of put a little more excitement into this collection by perhaps putting more thought into them. Also a bit more imagination could have been used in the description of the characters in this novel.

Personal Reflection:

I like this novel mostly because of the fact that it is a classic in our literature. The stories were easy to read and follow although much more excitement could of been added.

The stories included in this novel are something which an every day person could whip up on a weekend yet still be able to send a distinct message through. Rudyard’s purpose, I think, was to let the world know that we must get along with our brothers in nature instead of trying to tame them and conquer them. He must also in the back of his mind had a fascination with the mindset of animals and what some of their unheard laws must have

been.