The Gentlemen Of The Jungle Analysis

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The Gentlemen of the Jungle (1938) by Jomo Kenyatta The Gentlemen of the Jungle (1938) is a short story written by Jomo Kenyatta. The story is humoristic and amusing and very similar to a child friendly tale. But it holds more dark and social realistic themes such as colonization, racism and discrimination. “The Gentlemen of the Jungle” is a fable story because it uses sentences as “once upon a time” and “And he lived happily ever after” and it has animals with human qualities such as talking and civilized behavior. The narrator is omniscient from the author’s point of view and by knowing the author is from Kenya and a member of the kikuyu tripe it makes the story very reliable. The title “The Gentlemen of the Jungle” is very contradictory…show more content…
The story is written in 1938 where Kenya (Kenyatta is from Kenya) was colonized by Europeans, so it’s a way of spreading the word of injustice without being accused by the Europeans. The story is very similar to how the European colonized the continent, just like the elephant “stole” the man’s hut and how the other animals fooled him. In a similar way have Europe colonized the African people for many years. “The elephant thanked his friend, saying: You have done me a good deed and one day I shall return your kindness. But what followed? As soon as the elephant put his trunk inside the hut, slowly he pushed his head inside, and finally flung the man out in the rain, and then lay down comfortably inside his friend’s hut” (Just after the man had shared his hut with the elephant). “But no sooner had he built another hut than Mr. Rhinoceros charged in with his horn lowered and ordered the man to quit. A Royal Commission was again appointed to look into the matter, and the same finding was given. This procedure was repeated until Mr. Buffalo, Mr. Leopard, Mr Hyena and the rest were all accommodated with new

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