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Key Info: Bengal Tiger, Lame, Proud and Vengeful. A scheming Bengal tiger and the story’s antagonist, obsessed with killing Mowgli. Background: Shere Khan, also known as Lungri, the Lame One, is the primary antagonist in the main stories of “ The Jungle Book.”.
Shere Khan. Mowgli is the protagonist of the first three stories in The Jungle Book. Mother Wolf and Father Wolf raise him in the jungle after finding him there as a young boy. His real mother is likely Messua. Mowgli is an intelligent child whose upbringing gives him a unique perspective of the world. On the one hand, he is trained in the Law ...
Mowgli (/ ˈ m aʊ ɡ l i / MOW-glee) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Mowgli stories featured among Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories. He is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then became the most prominent character in the ...
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- Canonical appearances
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- Influences upon other works
- Mowgli stories by other writers
- Film, television and radio
- Comic books
- Voices of Mowgli
Mowgli was lost by his parents in the Indian jungle as a baby. Bagheera,the black panther befriended Mowgli, partly because Mowgli, being a human, had the power of dominion over beasts: Bagheera could not withstand Mowgli's gaze. Also, as Bagheera often mentioned, he was "raised in the King's cages at Oodeypore from a cub, and thus knew the ways of man. Baloo the bear, teacher of wolves, had the thankless task of educating Mowgli in The Law of the Jungle. Shere Khan continued to regard Mowgli as fair game, but eventually Mowgli found a weapon he could use against the tiger — fire. After driving off Shere Khan, Mowgli went to a human village where he was adopted by Meshua and her husband whose own son Nathoo was also taken by a tiger. It is uncertain if Mowgli was in reality the returned Nathoo or not. while Meshua would like to believe that her son has returned, she herself realised that this was unlikely.
While herding buffalo for the village Mowgli learns that the tiger was still planning to kill him, so with the aid of two wolves he trapped Shere Khan in a ravine, where the buffalo trampled him. The tiger died and Mowgli sets to skin him. Seeing this, a jealous hunter goaded the villagers into persecuting Mowgli and his adopted parents as witches. Mowgli ran back to the jungle with Shere Khan's hide but soon learns that the villagers were planning to kill Meshua and her husband, so he rescued them and sent elephant's, buffalo and other animals to trample the village and its fields to the ground.
In later years Mowgli found and then discarded an ancient treasure, not realising that men would kill to own it; and with the aid of Kaa the python he lead the wolves in a war against the dhole (red dogs).
Finally, Mowgli stumbled across the village where his adopted human mother (Meshua), was living, which made him realize that he must come to terms with his humanity and decide whether to rejoin his fellow humans.
•In the Ruhk
•Mowgli's Brothers
•Kaa's Hunting
•Tiger-Tiger
•Letting In the Jungle
•The King's Ankus
Play adaptations
Kipling adapted the Mowgli stories for The Jungle Play in 1899, but the play was never produced on stage and the manuscript was lost for almost a century. It was finally published in book form in 2000.
Only five years after the first publication of The Jungle Book, Edith Nesbit|E. Nesbit's The Wouldbegoods (1899) included a passage in which some children act out a scene from the book.
Mowgli has been cited as a major influence on Edgar Rice Burroughs' character Tarzan. Mowgli was also an influence of a number of other "wild boy" characters.
The story of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan by Ibn Tufail (before 1185) is similar to the story of Mowgli in that a baby is abandoned in a deserted tropical island where he is take care of and fed by a mother wolf. There is no account of the tiger shere-khan in the story as it is intended to be a philosophical reflection on life and divine existence.
(1992) by Pamela Jekel (ISBN 1-879373-22-X) is a collection of new Mowgli stories in a fairly accurate pastiche of Kipling's style.
Because of taboos against the depiction of juvenile nudity, film, television and comic book adaptations of the story almost always depict Mowgli wearing a loincloth, a pair of briefs or other one-piece garment, or might have various objects obscuring his genitalia.
Mowgli has been portrayed on film by several actors:
•Sabu in Alexander Korda's The Jungle Book (1942)
•Jason Scott Lee in Disney's live-action The Jungle Book (1994)
•Cathy Weseluck and Ian James Corlett in The Adventures of Mowgli aka Маугли (Maugli) (1973)
•Jamie Williams in The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997)
(Not counting the numerous comics based on the Disney version)
•Classics Illustrated #83 (1951) contains an adaptation of three Mowgli stories.
•Reprinted in 1997 in a digest size edition with new coloring, accompanied by notes on the original stories, as a Classics Illustrated Study Guide.
•Between 1953 and 1955 Dell Comics featured adaptations of six Mowgli stories in three issues (#487, #582 and #620).
•Some issues of Marvel Fanfare feature adaptations of the Mowgli stories by Gil Kane. These were later collected as an omnibus volume.
•P. Craig Russell's Jungle Book Stories (1997) collects three stories, actually adapted from The Second Jungle Book, which originally appeared between 1985 and 1996.
Bruce Reitherman - The Jungle Book
Haley Joel Osment - The Jungle Book 2
Jeannie Elias - The Jungle Book (1990)
Cathy Weseluck and Ian James Corlett - Adventures of Mowgli
Tyler Mullen - The Jungle Cubs
Julian Bailey - Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli
Shere Khan is a lame tiger who eats people. Read More. stealthy, selfish, mean. Akela. Akela, an old gray wolf, is the leader of the Free People pack. loner, faithful, kind. Amir. Amir is the leader of Afghanistan and is astonished by the Indian and English ability to organize humans and animals during a parade.
CharacterDescriptionTraitsMowgliMowgli is a little boy who is adopted by ...fearless, intelligent, quick on his feetBagheeraBagheera the black panther lives in the ...calm, wise, lovingBalooBaloo is a bear who lives in the jungle ...sleepy, strict, sweetShere KhanShere Khan is a lame tiger who eats ...stealthy, selfish, meanWilliam Boone (The Jungle Book (1994 film)) is a British Army captain and Mowgli's enemy; was played by Cary Elwes. Bhoot (Warner Bros) is an albino wolf cub and Mowgli's friend. The two of them had a falling out when Bagheera made Mowgli fail Baloo's test.
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Mowgli is the main character in the book. Taken from his village by Shere Khan the tiger, he escapes and runs into a cave where a wolf family live. They treat him as their own and he is raised like a wolf cub. His wolf mother names him Mowgli which means "Little Frog." He is a happy-go-lucky boy who considers himself a wolf.
