Each story is followed by a poem that serves as an epigram.Ī boy is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther, who teach him the "Law of the Jungle". The book is arranged with a story in each chapter. Forested parks and reserves that claim to be associated with the stories include Kanha Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, and Pench National Park, near Seoni. This is drier than a monsoon climate and does not support tropical rainforest. Seoni has a tropical savanna climate, with a dry and a rainy season. "Mowgli's Brothers" was positioned in the Aravalli hills of Rajasthan (northwestern India) in an early manuscript, later changed to Seonee, and Bagheera treks from "Oodeypore" ( Udaipur), a journey of reasonable length to Aravalli but a long way from Seoni. The Kipling Society notes that "Seonee" ( Seoni, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh) is mentioned several times that the "cold lairs" must be in the jungled hills of Chittorgarh and that the first Mowgli story, "In the Rukh", is set in a forest reserve somewhere in North India, south of Simla. Kipling lived in India as a child, and most of the stories are evidently set there, though it is not entirely clear where. "In fact, it is extremely possible that I have helped myself promiscuously but at present cannot remember from whose stories I have stolen." Setting
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In a letter written and signed by Kipling in or around 1895, states Alison Flood in The Guardian, Kipling confesses to borrowing ideas and stories in the Jungle Book: "I am afraid that all that code in its outlines has been manufactured to meet 'the necessities of the case': though a little of it is bodily taken from (Southern) Esquimaux rules for the division of spoils," Kipling wrote in the letter. Other readers have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics and society of the time. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or "heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle". The verses of "The Law of the Jungle", for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families, and communities. The tales in the book (as well as those in The Second Jungle Book, which followed in 1895 and includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to teach moral lessons. There is evidence that Kipling wrote the collection of stories for his daughter Josephine, who died from pneumonia in 1899, aged 6 a first edition of the book with a handwritten note by the author to his young daughter was discovered at the National Trust's Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire, England, in 2010. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Naulakha, the home he built in Dummerston, Vermont, in the United States. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six and a half years. Rudyard Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. The original publications contain illustrations, some by the author's father, John Lockwood Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94. Percy Grainger composed his Jungle Book Cycle around quotations from the book. The book has been influential in the scout movement, whose founder, Robert Baden-Powell, was a friend of Kipling's. Critics such as Swati Singh have noted that even critics wary of Kipling for his supposed imperialism have admired the power of his storytelling. The Jungle Book has remained popular, partly through its many adaptations for film and other media. Critics have also noted the essential wildness and lawless energies in the stories, reflecting the irresponsible side of human nature. They teach respect for authority, obedience, and knowing one's place in society with "the law of the jungle", but the stories also illustrate the freedom to move between different worlds, such as when Mowgli moves between the jungle and the village. Another important theme is of law and freedom the stories are not about animal behaviour, still less about the Darwinian struggle for survival, but about human archetypes in animal form. The theme is echoed in the triumph of protagonists including Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and The White Seal over their enemies, as well as Mowgli's. The stories are set in a forest in India one place mentioned repeatedly is "Seonee" ( Seoni), in the centralĪ major theme in the book is abandonment followed by fostering, as in the life of Mowgli, echoing Kipling's own childhood. 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.
The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling.
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