Journal of Advanced Management Science Vol. 1, No. 2, June 2013 The Jungle Book: Another Facet of Childhood Viorica Banciu, Angela Jireghie, and Ionut Erdeli University Of Oradea Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract—Kipling indicates that The Jungle Books is a book For Kipling the English intervention in the Indian life for children in order to easily move it over grown-ups reason is welcomed by the setting up of a surface designed prohibitions. The delightful story tackles subjects at the level civilization meant to trigger the locals from the native of children understanding, including a dose of exoticism beliefs and superstitions of their millennial world. Besides demystified on the whole by a popular and literary humor of the Barrack-Room Ballads, for example, as other pages of an old English origin. The Jungle Books reveals a world full range, without monotony and uniformity. Jungle life gets his work, even in well-known children's stories Just so epic contours. The adventure takes place at the forest level, Stories, exalt the idea of imperialism. And Kipling's ruled by laws given by its creatures. In this context Mowgli, travels around the globe, China, Japan, America had not the young man raised by beasts and loved by them, was changed optics. So that at the moment of the war of the necessary to Kipling's idea of restoring order in nature. British against the Burrs in South Africa, the British writer support the British cause and publishes a newspaper Index Terms—animals, childhood, humor, nature to spread the same ideas, entitled The Friend in Bloemfontein. Rudyard Kipling's Anglo-Saxon pride is felt not only in I. INTRODUCTION his volumes of poetry dedicated to British rule in the world For the child who grew-up in his British parents’ such as Barrack-Room Ballads, Seven Seas or Five bungalow, comfortable and civilized, with local ministers, Nations which praised his "Rule Britannia”. It’s at the margins of the jungle, India looks beautiful and particularly obvious in The Eyes of Asia, which includes mysterious. Nature with lush flora and fauna, with dangers four stories admiring the views of some residents of Asia watching everywhere, opened the child's heart to the about England and about its virtues. The conclusion of A fantasy world of stories. The Middle East made Rudyard Retired Gentleman is the most suggestive; the Indian feels Kipling a fabulous poet and a storyteller. At the people so humiliated by the spectacle of the English discipline in around, at the locals, he met the surface obedience the metropolis, thus can make a claim, at least surprising: necessary for the English master, which made him believe “We are nothing beside people”. I do not think any Indian, strongly in the mission of civilization to accept the English however humble, could have pronounced these excessive colonialism. The few years of college spent in England, annihilating words for all the ancient spiritual Indian between 1877 and 1882, at the United Services College in culture. Devon, where he started his literary activity editing a But these are the historical boundaries of Kipling's literary magazine, only reinforced his idea, of the political and social ideal, surrounded by the English necessary human discipline could be brought only by the horizon, the prospect of obsolete British Empire at that perfect organization, and the iron hand of England in the time, affected by the last quarter-century history. His colonies. It is true that Kipling's love for India was works infused with this view will remain a simple genuine and deep, as evidenced by the dozens of books document of a long literary revolutions, interesting only dedicated to people and places in this country of miracles for the British history, in contrast, Kipling's work of and especially a number of critical implications for the generally human interest, which exceeded the vision that English - we have seen in his books, even from the early good English citizen of the world and is the result a search career. on the scale of human values remains as a permanent But strong England, one that brings order and discipline European and universal culture. And this work was in the chaos of India is forgiving in Kipling's eyes and this crowned with the Nobel Prize for literature, awarded to is crucial, not the behavior of individual mistakes in the Kipling in 1907. [1] English part. Naturally, when rebellions are large, armed interventions must restore everything. Thus, in the story II. THE JUNGLE BOOK: THE BOOK OF INDIAN LIFE IN THE TH The Undertakers in the Second Jungle Book the 19 CENTURY characters’ memories refer to the great memories of the Kipling's work is very extensive and varied, and for this 1857 to the Indian revolt against the British, drowned in reason unequal as aesthetic achievement. Novels, stories, blood plays, poems, travel notes, sketches crowd around the writer obstructing critical judgments, clearly establishing a unique literary profile. The childhood and youth spent in Manuscript received November 12, 2012; revised January 14, 2013. ©2013 Engineering and Technology Publishing 179 doi: 10.12720/joams.1.2.179-183 Journal of Advanced Management Science Vol. 1, No. 2, June 2013 India, on the one hand, and English intellectual formation, Nobody was able to present the wild beauty of the on the other hand, made him a strange mix, which we meet jungle in India more suggestive than Rudyard Kipling. many personalities of British culture. Two areas of human During the life of the author England was named "world's experience, psychology, historical traditions have banker." The vast empire lived primarily on from colonial interfered in Kipling's literary production. The Indian area exploitation. India - Kipling's birthplace - was the most was explored with a realistic attention to English eyes, the important English colony. The writer saw daylight near dissociative ability of a writer descending from the great the jungles of India and learned to speak the native English novels adventure, which exalt the values of British language before he could speak English. He wrote "The Jungle Book" at the age of twenty-eight years. Because of civilization, but do not ignore the locals’ human values, this work, he became famous. Indeed, this book has a their great spiritual beauty and their natural weaknesses. specific atmosphere not found in literature. What is this But usually Kipling investigates deeply the English area paper? A collection of animal stories? A novel? Both. In that he knows much better. And generally he deals more this book, special people appear. The main character is a with the British from the colonies, from India, their happy kid who grew between animals. Yet the stories talk about or sad lives at the periphery of the British Empire. Taking animals. Animals participate in the adventure show human them in the colored world, a little bit bizarre of India, in characters are immediately popular. Akela, the wolf, the which the British writer is quite difficult to adapt, he lonely snake, Kaa, wise and human; Meanwhile, Shere creates the English a framework - unusual, picturesque, Khan, the tiger is cruel and selfish, as Tabakira, the jackal, exotic, similar to that introduced partly in the English pushing and unpleasant, inspires enmity and anger These literature at the same time by Joseph Conrad. And in Plain animals give us the opportunity to know more closely and Tales from the Hills, the first volume of sketches and Mowgli, the boy that was lost in the jungle and would have stories, Songs appeared in 1887, after his debut collection perished if he was not adopted by wolves. He grew up in of poems entitled Department Ditties and Soldiers Three, the wilderness, living among the animals and complied and Kim, the novel which the critique calls rightly enough with the laws of the jungle. Mowgli was born man, but picaresque, and many other works, Kipling presents many because he lives with the animals his soul is the same: wild facts of life, instant or wider deployments throughout and tame at once. He was raised wolf, but his human side existences. The life of civilian officials and officials of the when it strengthens and turns through people, even if the army of the colonies provided topics for the most sketches soul bears regrets. When he went in the first village, he and stories. An official wife regains their husband fallen in realized the bitterness of life and hostile attitude of people who chased him back among wolves. The Jungle Book is a love with another beautiful Englishwoman (Three and an novel of the uprooted; they "put from the moral angle, as Extra), a poor young man with an informal character Fram the Polar Bear, the problem of environmental arrives in the same environment, cannot adapt and suicide change and on that line accentuate the social criticism. In (Thrown away) , a British police officer becomes the sake such a perspective, Cezar Petrescu's allegorical novel can of her own beloved her servant, dressed in Indian clothes be read as a response to Kipling's books: the bear up in the (Miss Yonghal’s Sais), an officer who courts mother world of men and the young man raised by animals. In eventually marries the daughter (The Story Of The both, a history of mixing kingdoms and observing the Gadsbys), a corporal prevents the abduction of a daughter effects it has on the development of a being in a foreign of a colonel by a untrustworthy captain (The code from the environment as the reaction of the original environment to Machine - Deus ex machina), a child of an Irish soldier, this alienated being "[4].