He is adopted as a son by Ms Craston, though he refuses to call her mother. This second part (also written by her) describes Mowgli’s life in the mission school: his troubles interacting with other boys, learning social skills and so on. Each scrape he gets into has a little homily attached to it.Įventually, Mowgli gets caught by the wildlife guards and is sent to be raised by Ms Craston. With these, he embarks on a series of adventures and mischief, including tangling with poachers and wildlife guards. The book is divided into three parts: In the first, yes, the story, ‘rewritten’ by Ms Elizabeth Craston, the principal of a missionary school and one of the protagonists, follows the original template: Mowgli is found in the forests near Corbett Tiger Reserve-not by wolves, but by a herd of gentle elephants, led by the ‘matriarch’. If you think this book is just a rewrite of Jungle Book, be prepared to be surprised. In his novel Feral Dreams: Mowgli & His Mothers, Stephen Alter (author of the award-winning Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime) goes a step further: he updates the story to what it might read like had it been written today. RUDYARD KIPLING’S The Jungle Book has fascinated readers and writers ever since it was published.
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