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Mowgli's Struggle Against The Harshness of the Jungle

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Rudyard Kipling's jungle book is a series of different stories. Mowgli's story of adventure was not part of the whole jungle essay story. Mowgli's adventure story, however, was the dominant part of the stories in the jungle book. It is a five-chapter story, with two chapters, the third and last chapter in a poem that appears to be a song. Mowgli's story can be found in the first chapter of Mowgli 's brothers, then by hunting-song of the seeonee pack, and then a chapter of the poem roadsong of the bandar-log, then back to the narrative of the next chapter:' tiger! - tiger! ', and finally with the words in Mowgli's song chapter. The next chapter after this contains another story of jungle adventure that had nothing to do with mowgli's story/

In chapters on the adventures of Mowgli, the narrative presents the story of Mowgli's protagonist, which is told heterodidly. This heterodietic characteristic is reflected in the way the story is told by the narrator from outside the room of the story, as Chatman (1978, p. 155) says that: but what the narrator from his perspective is almost always outside the story (heterospective), even if it is just a distant. In the jungle book, the narrator never materialized into any of the characters in the story, the voice of the narrator floated over the story chamber, representing every existence and event. The phenomenon of this narrator is also amplified in the following statement: "a narrator is not a character in the story but in a way hovers above it - a heterodization narrator ("Narrators," n.d.).

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Fire in this story, is present in some parts of the story. Not in uncommon, the presence of this fire leads the reader to conclude that in the end, the resolution of the feud between the protagonist Mowgli and the antagonist Shere Khan will be concluded by a burning fire with Mowgli as our champion if we expect a happy ending to this story. And sure enough, if we refer to the aftermath of this story of Kipling by Disney, then we find the resolution scene of shere khan's burning fire carried by Mowgli. Nevertheless, in fact, the original story offered by Kipling gave a resolution that did not involve the presence of fire at all. It is of interest, therefore, when the presence of the fire is then studied further, to see if the existence of the fire had any effect on the development of the story, and how great its effect was on forming the story of the adventure Mowgli.

Fire in this story, is present in some parts of the story. Not in uncommon, the presence of this fire leads the reader to conclude that in the end, the resolution of the feud between the protagonist Mowgli and the antagonist Shere Khan will be concluded by a burning fire with Mowgli as our champion if we expect a happy ending to this story. And sure enough, if we refer to the aftermath of this story of Kipling by Disney, then we find the resolution scene of Shere Khan's burning fire carried by mowgli. Nevertheless, in fact, the original story offered by Kipling gave a resolution that did not involve the presence of fire at all. It is of interest, therefore, when the presence of the fire is then studied further, to see if the existence of the fire had any effect on the development of the story, and how great its effect was on forming the story of the adventure Mowgli. "The fool has had no more sense than to jump at a woodcutter 's campfire, and has burned his feet" said Father Wolf with a grun.

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In this part, the digestion of fire seems to serve only as an exposure that provides a backdrop for the events and subsequent actions of the characters involved. But so is the introduction of such appendages, such as the torches, campfires, as mentioned by fire, and burned, which proxies the next crucial point of protagonist and antagonistic confrontation. Furthermore, the words are actually present and involved in the kernel of glitches, complications, and complications. At the interference part, it starts with a Tabaqui presence that the family of father and mother Wolf disliked. As for the complications, this is seen from the events that determine the traits that Shere Khan had, both innate in father Wolf's portrayal of Shere Khan, and which would later have resulted from Shere Khan's fire leg in the hunt.

Discussion of the topic's treatment

The conflict that occurred in the story of Mowgli always involves the character Shere Khan and Mowgli. The center of this conflict has been around since the introduction of the two characters. At the first confrontation, the existence of fire became a builder's backdrop for the character Shere Khan. In the meantime, for Mowgli, fire cast a shadow over the background of his character builders. For baby Mowgli at the beginning of his introduction, fire was not directly in touch with his character, but fire was indirectly present on the basis of his species' unambiguous background. In other words, though fire does not directly deal with Mowgli, it too - just as with Shere Khan - has a role in building Mowgli's character identity, but in quite the opposite way. If fire for Shere Khan is a terror, then for man - in this context that Mowgli - fire is a weapon of fear. Thus, fire creates a clear separation in contrast to the two characters.

Without the introduction of the elements of fire, Shere Khan would not have characterized him as the personage whom Mowgli could later dread by the fire. As for Mowgli himself, with his human identity, without the mention of fire as a weapon for man by father Wolf, he certainly did not and as soon as he lost his ability to use fire, he remained - a human - a potential to use fire as a weapon. However, with father Wolf's testimony of fire as a weapon to man, it became a sign of the action Mowgli would later take. In addition, it would also be introduced to Mowgli through the Bagheera character, as the red flower, which means the introduction of fire by father Wolf in the introduction of the story was not fatal to the development of Mowgli's story as weapon ruler.

In further development, the nature of fire as a weapon was further clarified, both by teaching done by Bagheera to Mowgli, by Mowgli's enemies such as Shere khan and Mowgli's traitors, as well as Mowgli's monkeys that consumed Mowgli. Through Bagheera, fire was introduced as a more beautiful figure, one that has been called a red flower. Despite such poetic mention, still Bagheera declared fire a weapon that Mowgli - as a human - can use against his enemies. The mere mention of fire is nothing much in the description of fire as a terrible weapon for the jungle folk, in this sense is Bagheera itself, for Bagheera is one of the jungle's inhabitants, and every one of the jungles fears fire, "every beast lives in deadly fear of it, and invents a hundred ways of inflicting it" [every animal lives in deadly fear against it, and creates hundreds of ways of describing it] (Kipling, 1894). This was then proven when Mowgli used it to fight Shere khan and the traitorous wolves, for then "Shere Khan 's ears lay flat back on his head, and he shut his eyes" [Shere Khan's ears were very near on his head, and he shut his eyes, for a burning twig so close] (Kipling, 1894). The presence of fire as a weapon only enhanced by the introduction of the character of the monkeys who had finally kidnapped Mowgli in order to obtain the secret of fire as the weapon the monkeys were hoping to master the jungle. But Mowgli as a human does not see fire like the other animals. To Mowgli "no. Why should I fear it? I remember now - if it is not a dream - how, before I was a Wolf, I lay beside the red flower, and it was warm and pleasant "[no. Why would I be scared? I remember now if it wasn't a dream - how, before I was a Wolf, I lay next to a red flower, and it was warm and pleasant] (Kipling, 1894).

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