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Thursday, September 27, 2012

The Jungle Book: Man vs. Wild vs. A Wild Man



            I really enjoyed reading this piece. I believe in every essence of the story it represents a similar definition of how I define the wild; raw, untamed freedom. The boy had been raised by a pack of wolves. How much more wild can one get? I don’t know.
            The perfect example of an untamable wild is when the boy first approaches other people and one of the women of the village takes him in because she thought that he was her long lost child who had been taken by animals in the past. She tried to keep him in her hut, but he was too familiar with the outside world to be restrained to the confinements of small hut. However, Mowgli did eventually try to overcome his innate instincts with his desire to conform to the society of man. I didn’t like it.
            By the concluding paragraph I did find satisfaction when Mowgli realized that he is no longer a brother to this wolf pack, and never can he become a part of the man-pack. So he set out on his own to find his own pack accompanied by four other wolfs as he learned to embrace and accept his own genuine individualism and not common deceptive artificial individualism one assess through conformity.  I liked this piece, a lot!

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