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It's A Jungle Out There
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Piano Today
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July 1, 2008
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The Jungle Books of Rudyard Kipling (1894 and 95) are as strange as they are compelling. The two volumes are a loose collection of stories and poems united by a single theme-the struggle for survival in an extreme climate, whether the jungle or the Arctic. Kipling reminds us that all characters are at once predators and prey; to him, this grim struggle is not only tragic-it is also "life-and-death fun." Furthermore, Kipling sees animal behavior not as "instinct," but rather as a "law of the jungle," in which he perceives order and ethics.
It is mankind that puzzles him. Kipling conjures up as his hero and alter ego Mowgli, a boy reared in a pack of wolves. This upbringing causes Mowgli to ...
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