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Summary: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)
Review: In the deep jungle of India there was a little boy name Mowgli. Mowgli is an Indian infant who is lost in the jungle after Shere Khan (the tiger) kills his family. Mowgli was raised by a pack of wolves and is taught the laws of life in the jungle. His closest friends were Baloo, (the bear) and Bagheera (sleek black panther). Mowgli learns how to speak to the animals his childhood seems pleasant. Shere Khan is a dangerous tiger that is seeking revenge on Mowgli. Shere Khan is the enemy and is feared among all of the animals in the jungle. Mowgli was taught there was a certain place in the jungle that he was forbidden to go to. Bagheera and Baloo are trying to teach Mowgli the Laws of the Jungle for his own good. They are having a difficult time with him because he is small and young. Bagheera is more concerned with Mowgli being on his own because he has not learned how to kill his own food. And they are worried that Shere Khan will come after Mowgli and try to kill him. Riki-tiki-tavi is a mongoose, a hunter, and a great fighter. Riki-tiki fought anything that came in his way, but when Nag and Nagaina (the cobra couple) approached him it was different. Rikki-tikki felt his eyes growing red and hot (when a mongoose's eyes grow red, he is angry), and he sat back on his tail and hind legs like a little kangaroo, and looked all round him, and chattered with rage. But Nag and Nagaina had disappeared into the grass.
I really enjoyed reading The Jungle Book. Kippling had a great imagination, especially since Mowgli could talk to animals. I thought the characters were shown though their actions throughout the book. Rikki Tikki Tavi has always seemed to me to be one of the great heroes in all of literature.
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Summary: a timeless classic; evocative and colourful storytelling
Review: a hauntingly beautiful classical collection of stories of men and beasts
stories that evoke powerful images of the kindoms of bygone eras (both animal and mankind); stories charged with prose and poetry that will one moment soothe and calm the reader and the next moment pull them headlong into dark and brooding worlds of excitement and danger - in short, a great read for children of all age
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Summary: The Jungle Book - Malvina Vogel Adaptation
Review: Don't get me wrong. Kipling's Jungle Book is Awesome. The problem with this adaptation is that it is not Kipling's Jungle Book. Be careful what you order!! The language and tone of Vogel's adaptation is changed in ways that strip the stories of the sense of pride and self that made the originals such tremendous lessons, and of the subtle darkness that gave them the ring of truth. It's almost worse than Disney's handiwork, because in a certain sense it purports to be the orginal story! Some examples: Original Version: Ye choose and ye do not choose! What talk is this of choosing? By the bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog's den for my fair dues? It is I, Shere Khan who speak! Adapted Version: How dare you talk of choosing. I, Shere Khan, demand that cub.
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Original Version: They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away. Adapted Version: After my mother died there, I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and escaped. ***
Original Version: He is a man, a man's child, and from the marrow of my bones I hate him! Adapted Version: Remember, he is just a man. ****
Original Version: "Also, I paid for him with a bull when he was accepted. The worth of a bull is little, but Bagheera's honor is something that he will perhaps fight for," said Bagheera in his gentlest voice. "A bull paid ten years ago!" the Pack snarled. "What do we care for bones ten years old?"
"Or for a pledge?" said Bagheera, his white teeth bared under his lip. "Well are ye called the Free People!" Adapted Version: And I paid for him with a bull when he was accepted into the pack," added Bagheera. "What do we care about a bull we ate ten years ago" snarled the young wolves. "What do you care about promise either?" snapped Bagheera. And so on.... Virtually every paragraph is watered down like this. Was this done to make it easier reading for today's reading-challenged youths? Or to introduce PC to this classic (we obviously can't have any talk of "brown men", killing, hatred, or of fighting for principles). Whatever the reason, the entire flavor of the original is changed. Kipling was doing fine without the help.
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Summary: The Jungle Book - Malvina Vogel Adaptation
Review: Don't get me wrong. Kipling's Jungle Book is Awesome. The problem with this adaptation is that it is not Kipling's Jungle Book. Be careful what you order!! The language and tone of Vogel's adaptation is changed in ways that strip the stories of the sense of pride and self that made the originals such tremendous lessons, and of the subtle darkness that gave them the ring of truth. It's almost worse than Disney's handiwork, because in a certain sense it purports to be the orginal story! Some examples: Original Version: Ye choose and ye do not choose! What talk is this of choosing? By the bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog's den for my fair dues? It is I, Shere Khan who speak! Adapted Version: How dare you talk of choosing. I, Shere Khan, demand that cub.
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Original Version: They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away. Adapted Version: After my mother died there, I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and escaped. ***
Original Version: He is a man, a man's child, and from the marrow of my bones I hate him! Adapted Version: Remember, he is just a man. ****
Original Version: "Also, I paid for him with a bull when he was accepted. The worth of a bull is little, but Bagheera's honor is something that he will perhaps fight for," said Bagheera in his gentlest voice. "A bull paid ten years ago!" the Pack snarled. "What do we care for bones ten years old?"
"Or for a pledge?" said Bagheera, his white teeth bared under his lip. "Well are ye called the Free People!" Adapted Version: And I paid for him with a bull when he was accepted into the pack," added Bagheera. "What do we care about a bull we ate ten years ago" snarled the young wolves. "What do you care about promise either?" snapped Bagheera. And so on.... Virtually every paragraph is watered down like this. Was this done to make it easier reading for today's reading-challenged youths? Or to introduce PC to this classic (we obviously can't have any talk of "brown men", killing, hatred, or of fighting for principles). Whatever the reason, the entire flavor of the original is changed. Kipling was doing fine without the help.
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Summary: A True Timeless Classic
Review: I can't say too much about this wonderful collection of stories that hasn't already been said better somewhere else. You must read this book...if not for yourself, then for your children and grandchildren.
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Summary: The Jungle Book is a good book with a great reputation.
Review: I looked foward to reading the Jungle Book, after reading Kim and seeing how well Kipling wrote. And in the Jungle Book I found absolutely nothing, besides what I venture to mention, that slights my opinion of the quality of Rudyard Kipling's writing. I felt that in this book Kiplng was trying to exercise a mode of writing that was supposed to be at an elementary level, and therefor more suitable for children. I claim the same excuse for the length of the book. Yet I feel that Kipling's mode was not the best that could have been chosen. Instead, the book seemed to have a choppy quality, let me explain myself by saying that one chapter was used on a small event in Mowgli's life, and then several years were skipped, so the contents of the next chapter forced you to use an element of brain power for comprehension. I do not know the reader's, nor the general public's, feelings toward this use of brain power, I only know mine, which are that this usage distracts my from the story, and slightly takes me away from the spell any good book ought to have. I do not for one minute say that any of the contents of the book, extracting to the very singular word, were not put down without great thought, creativity, and originality, which all together produce a degree of brilliance. That degree, however, may alter, and I feel that although the brilliance is most definately there, it is not at it's utmost level. I find no fault of that with the author, except that of Kipling's trying to overtake a goal so difficult even he, with all his brilliance, was not able to peform to allow it to be rated as high as five stars. I do, though, sincerely applaud Rudyard Kipling's, original and, absolutely, in every possible way, amazing work, although I feel it to contain too many small faults to call it equal to its extroadinary reputation. I place the fault of it's too high reputaton sincerely upon those who read the book without knowlegde of it beforehand.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I think the jungle book was very interesting and adventurous.I recommend this book because it was fun to read.
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Summary: Huh?!
Review: I was required to read The Jungle Book for school. When I cameto page 79,(where "The White Seal" starts)Iwas bugged andconfused.Hello!This is the JUNGLE BOOK!I said to myself.Why are we talking about sea animals here?Huh?Can anybody answer me? No voices were heard.Of course,that's what I figured would happen.
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Summary: A disgusting book
Review: I was very disappointed when I read "The Jungle Book." I had heard wonderful things about it, and I was looking forward to reading a good book. It was NOT a good book, to say the least! Rudyard Kipling is horribly sexist and racist. His writing is terrible. (Have you ever tried to read cardboard? That's what his writing is like, only about a hundred times worse.) The only reason that Rudyard Kipling's books are called classics today is that they were almost the only children's books in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Children loved them because they were the only books at their reading level that were available. But now that there are millions of children's books on the market, Rudyard Kipling does not deserve any acclaim as an author. His books teach children to be sexist and racist. If libraries are banning "Huckleberry Finn," then they should certainly ban "The Jungle Book."
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Summary: Teaching Values Through Surrogates (Animals)
Review: I'd recommend this book for any child. Just as Aesop used the animals in his fables to teach leasons. Kipling very deftly teaches the virtues of family, loyalty, mercy, courage, sacrifice and honor using the interactions between the man cub and the jungle creatures.
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