Story · Britain · 1894
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The Jungle Book
55Watch it awake.
Mowgli's law is Kipling's, an Englishman writing India, not a cartoon.
The review
A boy is raised by wolves. The jungle has a law. Rudyard Kipling wanted that law to be the point, and a child can hear the stories. I've used them at bedtime. They are not the later cartoon, and I don't want a picture standing in for the book.
An Englishman wrote them about India, and I say so before anyone treats the jungle as a neutral portrait of the country. I can keep the wolf child and still tell a kid the frame belongs to the man who wrote it, not to the place. 1894. The law is his lesson. The country is not a prop he gets to settle.
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The eight
- 5Industry
The law is the work the wolf-boy is supposed to learn and keep.
- 7Household
A boy is raised by wolves, so that pack is the household.
- 6Piety
The jungle has a law, and that law is the check he wanted.
- 6Courage
A boy lives under the law among wolves that are not a game.
- 6Republic
The pack owes a law, written by an Englishman about India.
- 6Temperance
The law is there to hold want; that is the point he wanted.
- 4Truth
An Englishman wrote India; it is not a neutral portrait of the country.
- 4Stewardship
A child can hear Mowgli and still inherit Kipling's frame, not India's.
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