Monday, October 25, 2010

The Jungle Book

I just finished reading The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. In the novel, Mogli is saved from a tiger by wolves as a baby, and the wolves raise him. However the tiger that the wolves stole from wanted revenge, and he declared that he would one day prey on Mowgli. When Mowgli is about 11 years old, the leader of the wolf pack, Akela, becomes too weak to catch his meal. For the wolves this means that the leader has to die and then they choose a new leader from there. When this happens, Shere Khan-the tiger, steps in and tries to turn the wolves against Mowgli. He succeeds and Mowgli is sent out of the pack and into the village of people. I really liked the book because it was a story I sort of knew already, but I forgot it. Also, it talked a lot in old-style type words like art, thou, thee and all that. It was a little hard to understand but aftre you went over it a couple times it made sense.

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