The Jungle Book Summary and Analysis

The Jungle Book Mowgli is the five year old son of Nathoo, an Indian tour guide. Among the group Nathoo is leading are Colonel Brydon and his daughter Katherine or Kitty. Kitty and Mowgli are close friends and Kitty gives Mowgli a bracelet that once belonged to her mother. Shere Khan later attacks the camp killing Nathoo and two of Brydon’s men. Mowgli is lost in the confusion and assumed dead. Bagheera the panther brings Mowgli to a wolf pack who adopts him and Mowgli then befriends a bear club named Baloo. Years later Kitty and her father return to India and at first she doesn’t recognize Mowgli, but then Kitty recognizes the bracelet she gave them when they were children. Boone, Kitty’s husband-to-be, throws Mowgli in prison and Kitty and Brydon decide they must teach Mowgli the ways of man. Kitty and Mowgli begin to fall in love but Brydon does not accept because Mowgli was raised by animals. Boone finds Mowgli’s dagger which came from monkey city, and after Mowgli decides to leave the village, Boone decides to capture Mowgli and force him to lead them to the treasure of the city. Boone and his men threaten to kill Kitty and her father if Mowgli does not take them. During the journey through the temple Boone and his men slowly find their deaths. Kitty and Mowgli emerge from the temple and are confronted by Shere Khan. Shere Khan sees Mowgli as a creature of the jungle and spares him and Kitty. Mowgli and Kitty return to the village and are reunited with Baloo and Brydon. The Jungle Book takes place in British Colonial India in the nineteenth century. The film most likely took place in the latter half of the 1800s. In 1857 a local rebellion by an army of sepoys escalated into the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The revolt was caused by the British East India Company and its attempts to expand its control of India. After six months of battle and heavy loss on both sides the rebellion was suppressed. The East India Company lost control of British India and the