Kipling’s Jungle Book in Brief Content
The book consists of two parts. Some of the stories tell of Mowgli, about his life in the jungle among wild animals. At the age of two, the little son of a lumberjack is lost in the jungle. Behind him, the lame tiger Sher-Khan is scampering and wants to make him his prey. The child crawls to the lair of wolves. Father and Mother wolves take him to their family and protect them from Sher-Khan. They call it Mowgli, which in translation means “frog”. On the advice of the wolf pack, the bear of Baloo, who teaches the cubs to the law of the jungle, and the black panther Bagheera, who pays the flock for not giving the baby away for the tearing of Sher Khan, are in favor of Mowgli being allowed to live among the wolves.
The mind and courage of Mowgli allow him to survive and grow stronger in the difficult conditions of life in the jungle. His friends and patrons are the bear Balu, Bagheera, the boa constrictor Kaa, the leader of the wolf pack of Akelo. In his life there are
Once the monkeys of Bandar Logs take the boy to the Cold Lairs, a ruined Hindu city, built in the jungle a few centuries ago. While the monkeys are carrying it, moving along branches of trees, Mowgli asks the kite to follow where he is being taken, and to warn his friends. Bagheera, Balu and Kaa come to the boy’s rescue and rescue him from monkeys who play with him like a toy.
Ten years after Mowgli’s arrival in the jungle, the pack leader Akelo becomes old and can no longer patronize his pet. Many wolves hate Mowgli because they can not stand his sight and feel his inexplicable superiority. Sher-Khan is waiting for the right moment to deal with Mowgli. Then, on Bagira’s advice, Mowgli brings fire from the village. On the Rock of the Council of the wolf pack, he demonstrates to his beasts his strength, singing the skin of Sher-Khan, stands in defense of Akelo.
After that he leaves the jungle and goes to the village, to the people. There, a woman named Messua
After the death of Sher-Khan and the destruction of the village, Mowgli returns to the jungle, and now he is living particularly well. All recognize the rights of the master and the master of the jungle. He grows a handsome, strong and intelligent young man.
When he reaches seventeen years, the habitat of wolves is attacked by wild red dog dales. Each of them is weaker than a wolf, but they attack hordes, they are hungry and kill all life on their way. Mowgli, along with Kaa, lures them into a trap consisting of a billion swarm of wild bees and a swift river. The trick helps him to deal with most of the uninvited guests. Then the wolf pack finishes the survivors and the most stubborn ones. Thus, Mowgli relieves the wolves of certain death or forced relocation.
Spring comes, and Mowgli is drawn to the people. He says goodbye to his friends and finally leaves where now lives Messua and her newly born child. Mowgli meets a girl, marries her and leads a way of life that is normal for a human being, but always keeps in memory the first years spent in the jungle, and the images of true friends.
Other best-known stories are the story of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, and also about the White Cat. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a small mongoose, a brave fighter with snakes. Once a family of Englishmen, not long before having settled in a bungalow with a garden, finds a barely alive mongoose, nurses it and leaves it in his house. Rikki-Tikki after a while realizes that he will have to fight with two cobra: Nago and his friend Nagena, who are extremely unhappy with his appearance in the garden. They intend to kill all people: husband with wife and their son Teddy, expecting that then the mongoose will have nothing to do in their garden. On the first night of Ricky-Tikki in the parents’ bathroom, Teddy kills Naga. The next morning, he destroys all the cobra’s eggs, from which little snakes are about to hatch, and beyond Nageno rushes into her hole and is straightened out with her.
The story about the White Cat, which set a goal to find for its kindred an island where people could not reach them and steal them to the slaughterhouse, is also fascinating. For five years he has been swimming in the seas and oceans, asking everyone he meets on his way, where to find such a place. He has to deal with storms, escape from sharks, in difficult conditions to find food. During his travels he develops in himself an extraordinary power, hones his mind and observation. Finally, the sea cows point him at such an island surrounded by coastal reefs, and the next year he brings almost the entire tribe of his brothers to him, where they can live in safety and nothing will overshadow the future of their babies.
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