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The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling · 1894 CE · Short Story · English · Victorian

A man's child crawls into a wolf den in the Seeonee hills and is brought up by the pack under the Law, schooled by a bear and a black panther and hunted by the lame tiger who claims him by right. Other tales here follow a white seal searching for a beach no hunter has found and a mongoose keeping cobras out of an English bungalow at Segowlee. Kipling wrote them in Vermont, and the Law of the Jungle became the most quoted thing he ever invented.

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Genre
AdventureFantasyComing-of-Age
Theme
Nature vs CivilizationIdentity & SelfDuty & HonorComing of Age
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
InnocentMentorShadow
Plot structure
EpisodicBildungsromanExile and Return
Symbol / motif
The ForestThe BeastThe Wilderness
Conflict
vs Naturevs Person
Mode / tone
MythicAdventureAllegorical
Culture / tradition
English

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