Personality Types In The Jungle Book, By Rudyard Kipling

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The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling, contains many different personality types. Throughout this novel, we discover characters who love to help others and those who don’t. We learn about those who are living for themselves and those who want to impact others. As readers, we are introduced to characters who love to kill and those who are seeking ways to bring peace to the jungle. Each of us are given a choice as to what we will become. All personality types are different, some good and some bad; your personality depends on how you use your gifts and what you do with them.
The MBTI, or Myers Briggs Type Indicator, was created by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter to help people discover how they function and perceive life. This test is a series of questions based on a core idea that one is born with a temperament that guides a person the rest of his life. For example, questions such as: how you react to certain situations, whether or not one would choose solitude, or
Mowgli is the type of person to use his senses, not his feelings. One way we can prove he uses his senses and not feelings is that he kills Sher Khan. Mowgli is out herding cattle for the humans when he uses the buffalo’s fear of the wild jungle animals to stampede the great tiger unto his death. (Kipling, Rudyard 50-67). This behavior would give Mowgli the letter S.
Another character trait the study reveals is whether one is a (T) Thinker or a (F) Feeler. (The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 3). Mowgli is a thinker and not a feeler. He portrays thinker characteristics because he was raised by wolves. Wolves and other animals of the jungle survive life by using their heads and not their emotions. Animals are concrete thinkers. For example, when an animal is hungry, he will kill another animal in order to eat. This gives Mowgli the letter T. (The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 3) (Kipling, Rudyard

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