The Jungle Book
175 printed pages
Impressions
Está ok. Sigue la fórmula de utilizar animales para representar problemas morales y sociales. Fue interesante leer las historias que no tenían que ver con Mowgli, aunque de las historias de Mowgli creo que me quedó con las versiones audio-visuales. Tiene un par de frases medio racistas, aunque tengo la sensación de que buscaba criticar a la sociedad blanca de la India.
El último cuento me parece importante porque hace una clara crítica a la guerra. Y si bien los animales se utilizan para representar humanos, creo que la crítica se puede dirigir al uso tanto de unos como de los otros.
👍Worth reading
🙈Lost On Me
💞Loved Up
This book is nice both for children and for all people The flame of animal love in human heart was raised as Mogli was a favorite of every child and adult.
👍Worth reading
👎Give This a Miss
💧Soppy
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Quotes
, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him. They say too—and it is true—that man-eaters become mangy, and lose their teeth.
The purr grew louder, and ended in the full-throated “Aaarh!” of the tiger’s charge.
Then there was a howl—an untigerish howl—from Shere Khan. “He has missed,” said Mother Wolf. “What is it?”
Father Wolf ran out a few paces and heard Shere Khan muttering and mumbling savagely, as he tumbled about in the scrub.
“The fool has had no more sense than to jump at a woodcutters’ campfi
The purr grew louder, and ended in the full-throated “Aaarh!” of the tiger’s charge.
Then there was a howl—an untigerish howl—from Shere Khan. “He has missed,” said Mother Wolf. “What is it?”
Father Wolf ran out a few paces and heard Shere Khan muttering and mumbling savagely, as he tumbled about in the scrub.
“The fool has had no more sense than to jump at a woodcutters’ campfi
“Each dog barks in his own yard!
The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.
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