The Jungle Book: Another Facet of Childhood

2013 
Kipling indicates that The Jungle Books is a book for children in order to easily move it over grown-ups reason prohibitions. The delightful story tackles subjects at the level of children understanding, including a dose of exoticism demystified on the whole by a popular and literary humor of an old English origin. The Jungle Books reveals a world full range, without monotony and uniformity. Jungle life gets epic contours. The adventure takes place at the forest level, ruled by laws given by its creatures. In this context Mowgli, the young man raised by beasts and loved by them, was necessary to Kipling's idea of restoring order in nature.  Index Terms—animals, childhood, humor, nature I. INTRODUCTION For the child who grew-up in his British parents' bungalow, comfortable and civilized, with local ministers, at the margins of the jungle, India looks beautiful and mysterious. Nature with lush flora and fauna, with dangers watching everywhere, opened the child's heart to the fantasy world of stories. The Middle East made Rudyard Kipling a fabulous poet and a storyteller. At the people around, at the locals, he met the surface obedience necessary for the English master, which made him believe strongly in the mission of civilization to accept the English colonialism. The few years of college spent in England, between 1877 and 1882, at the United Services College in Devon, where he started his literary activity editing a literary magazine, only reinforced his idea, of the necessary human discipline could be brought only by the perfect organization, and the iron hand of England in the colonies. It is true that Kipling's love for India was genuine and deep, as evidenced by the dozens of books dedicated to people and places in this country of miracles and especially a number of critical implications for the English - we have seen in his books, even from the early career. But strong England, one that brings order and discipline in the chaos of India is forgiving in Kipling's eyes and this is crucial, not the behavior of individual mistakes in the English part. Naturally, when rebellions are large, armed interventions must restore everything. Thus, in the story The Undertakers in the Second Jungle Book the characters' memories refer to the great memories of the 1857 to the Indian revolt against the British, drowned in blood
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