BlueBarry  +  175930 Thu, 29 Dec 05 07:53 AM THE JUNGLE BOOK.chemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />>> > > > >         I had the pleasure rereading the story once more, I read it once or twice during my childhood but I forgot much of the essence of the story. Reading the story once more bring a floodgate of memories, for once I remembered why I love the story so much back then. When I was down and sad I just turn my attention to the book, it offer me a solace place where I can imagine myself as Mowgli the frog and room the jungle freely without the burden of the world on my shoulders. The story revolve around a boy that was adopted by a family of wolf, the boy was forced to flee into the jungle and took shelter in the wolf’s dent because he was being hunted down by Shere Khan the tiger. The wolfs actually defended him from being eaten by the tiger, in the earlier part of Mowgli childhood the wolf raise him as one of their own and shower him with love and passion without any prejudice at all. The second part of Mowgli life begin when he was introduce to the wolf’s pack as a part initiation process, here is where  Shere Khan took another swipe at Mowgli’s life and threaten to gobble him up. Here we were also introduced to the character of Baloo the bear and the teacher of wolfs who speaks on behalf of Mowgli when other wolfs tried to outcast him from the pack without Baloo’s vote Mowgli was for sure heading towards a different fate, a horrible fate I might add. There was also another important character that night that played an important role in mowgli’s earlier life, Bagheera the Black Panther. We were told that Baloo only vote was insufficient to save little Mowgli life it took an offering of a freshly kill bull by Bagheera that finally persuade the wolfs to make a u turn on their decision and finally accept Mowgli as one of their own. Baloo,Bagheera and including the wolf couple later thought Mowgli the way of the jungle and it’s laws and all this while Shere Khan the tiger was never ending in his quest of annihilating Mowgli. Shere Khan the tiger associated himself with the young wolfs in the pack and poison their mind to see Mowgli as an enemy and a treat to the wolf’s way of life. Shere Khan tried to portrait Mowgli as a growing tumor that have to be eradicated in order to preserve the way of the jungle. Shere Khan was actually lacing his word with pretentious in order to hide his real motive of having the appetite for Mowgli. Mowgli in all of his innocent have to defend himself when the pack turn on him with the change of the leadership, when Akela the leader of the pack can no longer defend himself. Mowgli was actually prepared for the occasion where with the advice of Bagheera he had kept by his side some burning fire to defend himself and the people close to him. Mowgli actually succeeded in defending himself but was force out of his home the jungle because he can longer trust the wolfs. The story ended here for a while and continue in part two of Mowgli’s life. The story I had just read have a lot moral stories behind it and we can relate the characters portrait in the stories to human beings, even in animal kingdoms they have to life in a society that is bond by moral, values and laws. In the life of the animals also we do see passion, love and the need of each other. All that I can say is that seeing by the ways that we human beings do to each other we have a thing or two to learn from these characters. BlueBarry Joined on Mon, Dec 5 2005 New Member 04

	nona the brit  +  176500 Fri, 30 Dec 05 02:48 PM You need to start using paragraphs. nona the brit Joined on Wed, Sep 22 2004 England Veteran Member 11,713 The name says it all.