Mowgli Characterization

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Characterization – Mowgli (The jungle book) The first appearance of Mowgli is a small naked boy in lightened brown skin, just old enough to have learned to walk. Mowgli had wandered away from his tribe and was found deep down in the jungle by Mother and Father wolf, the two leaders of the jungles wolf pack, just before Shere Khan, the conniving, lame tiger. Mother wolf decides to adopt Mowgli and raise him until he reaches the right age. The Jungles teachers Baloo, the bear, and Bagheera, the black panther, then gets the mission to teach Mowgli the complex and strict laws of the jungle. Mowgli gets the nickname the frog for his furless body and difficulties to sit still. Mowgli learns how to hunt, how to converse in the different animal languages and how to survive on his own in the jungle. Mowgli that is a man doesn't have the strength of an animal as Baloo, Bagheera or anyone else of his wolf-brothers, but he is reckon to be one of the strongest of his own kind. Though to his weakness among the other animals he has a way of solving problems and escape difficulties that occur in the jungle. "I kill nothing - I am too little - but I drive goats towards such as can use them. When thou art empty come to me and see if I…show more content…
No one in the Jungle, not even the strongest, dare to stare in to Mowgli's eyes for more then just a moment. Mowgli finds this amusing and starts to stare out all of his brothers and sisters in the pack and even other animals in the jungle for fun. Many wolfs in the wolf-pack founds this very disturbing and when Mowgli is old enough to be consider as an young man and able to take care of himself the pack turns his back on him and disallow him to be in the pack no more. Mowgli decides now to go and live with his own kind and learns the way of living as a man. Later on Mowgli decides to return to the jungle to live with his old friends and to kill his sworn enemy Shere Khan, the
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