Research Paper On The Jungle Book

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The Jungle Book The Jungle Book originates back to 1894 as a storybook written by Rudyard Kipling. Since the original storybook, it has been produced into multiple movies along with being referenced by many other films. The Jungle Book this paper focuses on was released April 15, 2016. In this story, much like the human society, the animal kingdom also displays a sense of hierarchy within species, which separates the kingdom. Naturally, hierarchies may always exist in the sense of survival as prey-predator, but this film hints at something more. Sometimes this animal hierarchy is blatantly apparent in the film, while some aspects are hinted at it within the scenes. Cinematically, the hierarchy is shown through the high and low camera angles …show more content…

The main movie characters in this film are: an orphan boy raised by a pack of wolves, the “man-cub” Mowgli; Bagheera (the black panther); Baloo (the bear); and Shere Khan (the tiger). Other characters throughout the movie are Kaa (the snake), King Louie (king of the monkeys), wolf pack (that raised Mowgli), the majestic elephants; and many others throughout Mowgli’s journey back to man-kind. The story follows Mowgli, an orphan boy who unlike other humans was raised by a pack of wolves since he was little, throughout the story. Mowgli was in the jungle with his father, when Shere Khan attacked and killed his father. Bagheera found the lonely boy and brought him to the wolf pack, where they raised and protected him. The story begins with Mowgli running through the jungle with his wolf brothers, but losing the race since he cannot keep up with them. Mowgli realizes the differences between himself and the wolf pack early on in the film; his differences make him appear weaker than the rest of the pack. Eventually, Shere Khan (an archenemy) forces the wolf pack to decide to return him back to the humans because he portrays Mowgli’s (human) kind as dangerous with the “red flower” – fire – if ever let loose, it will destroy everything it

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