Story summary
The Jungle Bookのあらすじ
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A boy raised by wolves, a white seal and a mongoose confront enemies in Kipling's animal tales.
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The Jungle Bookの概要
要約：読むのに8 minかかります
- 読書時間
- 約3 h 20 min2 h 40 min fast, 4 h slow
- 所要時間
- 47,800語14 chapters
- ページ数
- 144ページ217 in large print
- ライブラリ内の難易度
- やさしいです short sentences, plain words
- 初版刊行年
- 1894by Rudyard Kipling
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The Jungle Book in short
The Jungle Book is a set of seven tales in which animals and people live by rules and test those rules. Mowgli grows from a naked cub in a wolf cave into a boy who must choose between two worlds. Kotick the white seal sees what his people prefer not to see.
What The Jungle Book is about
What would you do if a tiger came to your door and demanded a baby? In the first tale of this book, two wolves say no, and a naked human child grows up in their cave. That scene opens The Jungle Book, a set of animal stories by Rudyard Kipling, who was born in India and wrote about its forests, villages and army camps.
The book gathers seven stories, and each comes with a poem or a song. Three follow Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves. The others tell of a white seal, a young mongoose, a boy who follows an elephant, and army animals who talk in the rain.
対象読者. You will love this book if you enjoy animal adventure, clever heroes in a strange world, tales of friendship and belonging, or stories that mix scenes of India with songs and gentle humor.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A wolf family shelters a human child
The book opens on a warm evening in the Seeonee hills. Tabaqui the jackal brings news that Shere Khan the tiger has moved his hunting ground to these hills. The wolves are angry, because by the Law of the Jungle a hunter must give warning before he changes his territory.
Shere Khan is hunting Man, and the Law forbids that, since a killing brings white men with guns and the whole jungle suffers. The tiger leaps at a woodcutter's campfire, burns his paws and misses. Meanwhile a naked toddler wanders into the wolves' cave, laughing. Father Wolf lifts the child in his jaws without a scratch and sets him among the cubs.
Shere Khan's great head fills the cave mouth, demanding his prey. Mother Wolf, who is named Raksha, the Demon, faces him down. She names the child Mowgli, the Frog, and tells the tiger the boy will one day hunt him. A small child wins a place because two parents choose kindness over safety.
A home is made by those who choose to protect you.
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The Pack accepts Mowgli for a price
Before the Pack can keep a cub, the wolves must see him at Council Rock under the full moon.
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Fire and tears end life with the wolves
Mowgli finds the Red Flower at a village window.
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Mistakes among the monkeys cost his friends dearly
Baloo is teaching Mowgli the Master Words that win protection from every kind of creature.
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A boy among men finds neither side safe
In Tiger!
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Kotick learns that his world is a killing ground
The White Seal begins at a crowded beach on St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea.
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A small mongoose must guard a household
Rikki-tikki-tavi is the story of a young mongoose washed out of his burrow by a flood.
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Toomai follows an elephant into the unknown
Toomai of the Elephants centers on Kala Nag, an old elephant who has served the Government of India for forty-seven years.
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The camp animals argue about courage and orders
Her Majesty's Servants begins with a rainy month at a great army camp at Rawal Pindi.
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What the tales share and how they are told
The seven tales share one idea.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Mowgli A human child raised by wolves, bold and quick, who must learn where he belongs and settle his quarrel with Shere Khan.
- Bagheera A black panther born in captivity, who loves Mowgli, pays for his place in the Pack and teaches him cunning.
- Baloo A sleepy brown bear and strict teacher of the Law of the Jungle, who loves his pupil and fears for him.
- Shere Khan A lame tiger who hunts cattle and Man and swears to claim Mowgli for himself.
- Kotick A white seal who watches the killing of his companions and searches the seas for a safe island.
- Rikki-tikki-tavi A curious young mongoose who joins a human family and is determined to protect their garden from two cobras.
- Little Toomai A ten-year-old elephant driver's son who longs to join the hunters and see something no man has seen.
- Kaa A thirty-foot rock python feared by the monkeys, who helps Mowgli's friends in his own way.
How it ends (spoiler)
Mowgli stampedes the buffaloes down a ravine and kills Shere Khan, then skins him. The villagers drive him out with stones, and he lays the tiger's hide on Council Rock, so both packs have cast him out. He hunts with his wolf brothers. Kotick leads thousands of seals through the Sea Cow's tunnel to a safe island. Rikki-tikki destroys both cobras and their eggs. Little Toomai is honored as Toomai of the Elephants. The camp animals march in review.
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『The Jungle Book』についての質問
What is The Jungle Book about?
It is a collection of seven tales by Rudyard Kipling. Three follow Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in India. The others tell of a white seal, a brave mongoose, an elephant driver's son and the army animals of a camp.
Who are Mowgli, Baloo and Bagheera?
Mowgli is a human child adopted by a wolf family. Baloo is a brown bear who teaches him the Law of the Jungle. Bagheera is a black panther who bought his place in the Pack and guards him like an older brother.
What is the Law of the Jungle?
It is the set of rules that keeps the animals in order. It forbids eating Man except in special cases, protects young cubs, requires hunters to ask leave on strange ground and says that punishment settles a wrong once.
Is The Jungle Book one story or many?
It is seven separate tales with poems and songs between them. Three of the tales follow Mowgli, and the rest stand alone, so you can read them in any order and still enjoy each one.
Is The Jungle Book easy to read?
It has clear plots, lively talk between animals and short scenes that read well aloud. The tales include individual adventures and a group conversation among army animals, offering several different ways into their themes.
この版を引用します
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-jungle-book.
Kipling, R. (2026). The jungle book. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-jungle-book (Original work published 1894)
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-jungle-book.
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author = {Kipling, Rudyard},
title = {The Jungle Book},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
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note = {First published 1894}
}
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