RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936)

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• RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936)
• THE JUNGLE BOOK
• SIIRI TALVISTU

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CHILDHOOD EARLY LIFE

• Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born on 30 December
  1865 in Bombay, British India.
• 6-year-old Kipling was sent to England
• At the age of 12 he was sent to study at the
  United Service College at Westward Ho in Devon -
  a military school.
• At 17 he took up a job in Lahore as an
  assistant editor in a local newspaper the Civil
  Military Gazette.

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WRITING CAREER

• In two years he published six volumes of
• short stories set in and concerned with India
• At 24 he left the newspaper and went back to
• England where he was already recognized and
• acclaimed as a brilliant writer
• Because of his condition his doctors advised
• him for a sea voyage. Meanwhile, he wrote a
• collection of short stories about the British
  India
• called Life's Handicap.

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1907 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER

• He won the prize in literature in consideration
  of
• The power of observation
• Originality of imagination
• Virility of ideas and
• Remarkable talent for narration

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WRITING STYLE

• Life abroad opened his mind
• Filled with the magical aspects of nature
• Unusual and bizarre characters
• - Kim
• - The Cat that Walked by Himself
• - Wee Willie Winkie
• - How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
• - How the Leopard Got His Spots
• - The Man Who Would Be King
• - The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book

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THE JUNGLE BOOK(1894)

• A collection of stories
• Animals are in a humanlike
• manner to give moral lessons
• Appreciation for nature
• Allegories of the politics and
• society of the time

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• - Mowgli's Brothers
• Mowgli is raised by wolves in the Indian Jungle
  with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the
  black panther, and then has to fight the tiger
  Shere Khan.
• -Kaas Hunting
• This story takes place when Mowgli is abducted
  by monkeys, before he fights Shere Khan.

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