I. Backround Informaation
Information About The Work
- Title      : The Jungle Book
- Author    : Rudyard Kipling
- Publication information: The Jungle Book (literally: "Book of the Jungle", 1894) is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling. These stories were first published in the magazine between 1893 - 1894. The original publication also contained illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling.
- Statement of Topic and Purpose: In the novel The  Jungle  Book  (1894)  written  by  English  author,  Rudyard  Kipling,  is  a collection of stories that relate the experiences of a human child, Mowgli, who is adopted and raised by wolves in an Indian jungle. The tales in the book (and also those in The Second  Jungle  Book  which followed in 1895, and  which  includes  five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in  an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The Jungle Book is a collection of stories.
The purpose of writing this article is to:
- Knowing Mowgli's character
- Know the story of Mowgli who was raised and adopted by wolves in the forest
- Thesis Statement Indicating Writer's Main Reaction to the Work
- According to my group, the reason the author wrote the story in "The Jungle Book" was the depiction of the Forest in the author's home country, India. The author includes anthropomorphic to provide moral lessons. The Law of the Jungle, as it describes the rules for the safety of individuals, families and communities. Apart from that, there is another reason, namely, Jungle students have been used as motivational books by the standby Scouts, junior elements in the Scout Movement. The use of the forest concept is a direct application of Baden-Powell (founder of the Scout Movement)
II. Summary Or Description Of The Work
The Jungle Book is a timeless classic that combines myth, adventure and morals in a story of friendship between humans and animals. Once upon a time, Mowgli (Neel Sethi) was a human child who was left behind in the forest because his father was killed by a tiger, Shere Khan (Idris Elba).
Before being killed, his father still had time to attack Shere Khan with a fire torch so that Mowgli was also free from the attacks of the fleeing tiger.
Mowgli, finally found by a panther, Bagheera (Ben Kingsley), who then brought Mowgli, the human child, to be raised by the wolf clan led by Akela (Giancarlo Esposito).
However, Shere Khan's grudge against Mowgli's father which has damaged part of his face also makes him continuously target Mowgli, who is in the protection of a pack of wolves.
When Mowgli has grown up, the council of the wolves meets to decide what to do with the human, because even though he has been taken care of by them since childhood, he is believed to be safer if he is in the human-village.
Mowgli, not wanting the pack of wolves that had raised him to be attacked by Shere Khan, also decides to go to the human-village.
Shortly before leaving, Raksha (Lupita Nyong'o), who has become a mother figure because she has taken care of Mowgli since he was a baby, says to Mowgli, "No matter where you go or what they may call you, you will always be my son. wherever you go or what name is given to you, you will always be my child).
Guided by Bagheera, Mowgli wanders to the human village and meets a number of other forest dwellers, including elephants who are highly respected by Bagheera because elephants with their tusks and great strength are considered to be the shapers of forest roads and the rivers flowing in them.
While on his way to the human village, Shere Khan manages to sense Mowgli's departure and attempts to attack him, but is thwarted by Bagheera while Mowgli manages to escape with a herd of wild buffalo.
After being separated from Bagheera, Mowgli gets lost and meets a number of other creatures such as the boa snake Kaa (Scarlet Johanssen) who tries to hypnotize him to eat him.
Furthermore, Mowgli also befriends the bear Baloo (Bill Murray), and the two try to find a way to find a large amount of honey, especially to supply Baloo so that it can hibernate in winter.
When meeting with Baloo, Mowgli discusses himself who is undecided about whether to go to a human village or stay in the forest.
This ambiguous view is because since childhood, Mowgli has been taught by wolves about the Law of the Jungle that "wolves are strong because of the herd, and the pack is strong because of wolves", so Mowgli must also be in the pack of his fellow humans (humans) to stay safe and strong.
But on the other hand, Mowgli, who has been raised by forest dwellers since childhood, has also considered the wilderness as his own home, so he is also unable to leave the place that has become his home. "The Jungle Book" itself is a metaphor about a group of animals that contain moral values that are aimed primarily at children.
III. Interpretation And Or Evaluation
Discussion of the work's organization
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.).
Discussion of the work's style
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.
Effectiveness
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).
After the story shifted from the jungle to the human village, fire as a weapon no longer appeared in the story. The fire became a useful part of daily village life. This is seen from the narration "the crowd beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised on it, half a dozen copper cooking POTS, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at the country market" A large crate of grain with a funny lifting pattern on it, a half a dozen copper cooking POTS, a picture of the Hindu god in a small niche, and on the wall a glass appeared to be real, like the one they had sold in a rural exhibition] (Kipling, 1894). At this point, the mention of a copper cooking pot packed together with other living utensils indicates that fire for the villagers was part of daily life, and particularly as a cooking instrument, so fire became a useful tool for survival without the use of it as a weapon.
At the story resolution, fire involvement in its many shapes is virtually invisible. Tensions built at the height of the confrontation between mowgli and shere khan did not even mention the involvement of fire. At the end of the confrontation between mowgli and shere khan, shere khan's state was described as a drunk, drunk tiger, "he killed dawn, - a pig, - and he had drunk too" [he had consumed at dawn, - a pig, - and he was drunk too] (Kipling, 1894). Meanwhile, mowgli himself could not use any fire at all, at the waiting time of shere khan's ambush, looking forward to having his brother grey brothers watch and watch. While at the height of his battle with shere khan, mowgli used a herd of buffalo to trample shere khan to death.
- Discussion of Appeal to A Particular Audience
The very existence of fire as something that gives quite a dangerous impression, it only appears in depictions that provide an atmosphere that displays a brave impression. Or, if it could be argued as dangerous, it would not be in the physical sense. At one point the expression "he has eyes like red fire" [he has eyes like red fire] (Kipling, 1894) or as it appears on the part following the confrontation "when the moon rose over the plain, making it look all milky, the making it look at his heels Mowgli, with two wolves at his heels and a bundle on his head, trotting across at the steady Wolf's trot that the Terrified villagers saw Mowgli, with two wolves at his feet and a band of bunches on his head, running across with steady Wolf steps that devoured the long road like fire] (Kipling, 1894).
