Jungle Book Essay Research Paper Summary

Jungle Book Essay, Research Paper

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 does not say a word but swims off. Kotick follows the Sea

Cow to a island. The island is perfect so he goes back to where the other seals are living.

The other seals do not believe that there is an island that man cannot get to so they refuse

to leave. Kotick then goes through the seal population and starts to bite the seals until they

have to leave the island. The seals then follow him to the island and they hibernate there

for the rest of their days.

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.

This story is about a mongoose that is raised by a small family of three. The family

thought that they were relatively safe. The family lived in a jungle in a little hut. Many

different types of animals lived in the garden. The family did not know, however, that one

of these groups of animals consisted of two Cobras. These Cobras were thinking of killing

the family. They thought that if they killed the family they would be able to live in safety.

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was aware of these snakes and knew that it was his job to protect the

people. When one of the snakes went into the bathroom and waited for the father he went

in after him and killed him. The people then thought that they were safe, but they were

not. The woman Cobra was then up set because Rikki-Tikki-Tavi had killed her mate. The

two Cobras had laid eggs together so he decided that it would be very advantages to

destroy these eggs. He destroyed every egg but one so that he would have some collateral.

He then went to find the Cobra. The Cobra was under the humans breakfast table and was

about to bite the little boy. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi talks the Cobra into taking the egg and

leaving. She does and he chases her down her hole and kills her.

Toomai of the Elephants

This story is about a little boy who grows up in India. The boy is from a long

lineage of elephant trainers. All of the experienced elephant trainers had never seen the

"Elephants Dance", but had seen the effects of it throughout the jungle. One night the

elephants started causing a ruckus so little Toomai went out to see what was the matter.

He followed one of the older elephants named Kala Nag. Kala Nag put little Toomai up on

his back and the two walked through the jungle. Kala Nag met up with hundreds of other

elephants and they danced through the night. Later on the next day when the two had

returned back to camp Toomai told all the old elephant trainers about what he had seen

and participated in. The elephant trainers didn.t believe him so they had to go out into the

jungle and see for themselves. When they saw how the elephants had trampled the jungle