The Jungle Book Themes

Even if you haven't read The Jungle Book, you should be familiar with a few rules of the jungle. He's Tarzan, and we're Jane, for instance, and watch out for trees. These rules keep people safe whe...

You've heard the phrase an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth before. In the jungle, you have to add a fang for a fang or a hide for a hide or a thirty-foot-long recently shed snakeskin for a...

A website for family-friendly movie reviews ranks The Jungle Book (1994) a 3/10 on the violent scale, with 1 being a cuddly puppy barking loudly and 10 being a Rob Zombie movie. We'd have to rank t...

We often associate animals with courage and bravery, like the three animals fearlessly searching for a way home, or the noble pig fighting for his farm. So it's unsurprising that the animal heroes...

The protagonists of almost all the stories of The Jungle Book—all three Mowgli chapters; Kotick, the white seal; and Little Toomai—are all children, or as they're known in the jungle, cubs or p...

The Jungle Book was written by a white guy who lived in India while India was under British rule—and thought this was a pretty cool arrangement. As if that wasn't enough, he threw animals into th...

You may have heard someone exclaim, "It's a jungle out there," by which they mean that it's dangerous and chaotic (or they're watching Jumanji). Because of the meaning of this idiom, you might be s...

You may have already read all the stuff we had to say about principles elsewhere in this section. But if you have, well, then you can go ahead and scratch that. Unless you're Shere Khan, of course,...

The jungle isn't all death, destruction, and disease in The Jungle Book, and animals often stick together. Wolves have their packs, seals have their pods, and mongooses (unofficially) have their tr...