Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book

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“The jungle book” by Rudyard Kipling is about a boy named Mowgli and how he was raise by a pack of wolves and they teach him what to do and how to do it.

Key idea 1

At the start of the jungle book Mowgli meets a family of wolves, and when the family of wolves

Awaken they are hungry and mother wolf is nursing the cubs, the jackal,Tabaqui goes into the

Cave looking for food.

Key idea 2

They say the jackal is among the animals of the lowest because he is a scavenger and that he is

Prone to “dewanee” which now days is called rabies or hydrophobia. Tabaqui tells them Shere

Khan and about how he is a fearsome tiger hunting wolves in the neighborhood the lame tiger

Which is lame in one leg but still dangerous. He upsets the wolves

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