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Samenvatting van De zoon van Tarzan
- 8 min. leestijd
- 10 parts
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A London schoolboy ties up his tutor to meet an ape, then vanishes into the African jungle with him.
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De zoon van Tarzan in het kort
Samenvatting: 8 min leestijd
- Leestijd
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- 87.000 woorden
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- Gemiddeld longer sentences, everyday words
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- 1915by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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De zoon van Tarzan in short
The Son of Tarzan follows a boy who has everything in London and gives it up by accident. Jack Clayton flees to Africa with an ape and becomes Korak, a jungle fighter, while the girl Meriem grows from a beaten child into a young woman. Around them move a ruined Russian, two Swedish poachers, a cruel sheik and an English snob.
What De zoon van Tarzan is about
Who ties up a tutor with bedsheets, slides down a drainpipe and runs across London at night just to see a trained ape? Jack Clayton does, and he is the son of a lord who was once Tarzan of the Apes. When the great ape Ajax looks into the boy's face in a crowded music hall, something old and powerful wakes up.
Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote The Son of Tarzan as a sequel to his first Tarzan novel. Jack's mother, Jane, fears that the wild runs in the blood, so she keeps every hint of the jungle from her son. Her fear proves right. You get fights with lions and apes, a cruel sheik, a doll with an ivory head and a boy who learns the law of the forest.
Voor wie is het?. Readers who love jungle adventure, loyal animal friends and old-fashioned cliffhangers will enjoy this book. It suits anyone who liked Tarzan of the Apes and wants to follow the next generation.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A ruined man brings a searching ape to London
The book opens on the Ugambi river in Africa, where sailors spot a skeletal white man waving from the bank. He gives his name as Michael Sabrov, but he is really Alexis Paulvitch, once a partner of the villain Rokoff in schemes against Tarzan. Ten years among cannibals have bent his body and scarred his face. His one feeling is hatred, aimed at Rokoff and above all at Tarzan.
A huge ape walks up to the sleeping Russian and tugs his shoulder. The animal studies the face of every sailor, sighs almost like a person and moves on. Paulvitch sees money in such a creature and keeps saying the ape is his.
The ape, named Ajax, spends the voyage staring ahead as if someone waits in the next port. In London a trainer agrees to show him in music halls. Every night on stage he searches the audience.
Hatred and loyalty both arrive in London, and both are looking for the same man.
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A London boy who acts the ape meets one
Jack Clayton, son of Lord Greystoke and his wife Jane, is a gray-eyed boy of unusual strength.
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Revenge sends a boy and an ape to Africa
In the car home, Jack asks how the ape knew his father, and for the first time Tarzan tells his son about the jungle and its horrors.
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A beaten child and her ivory doll
Burroughs now moves to the Sahara.
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Akut teaches the boy jungle law and a new name
On his first night in the forest, Jack shivers in a tree beside Akut, sick at heart about his mother's grief.
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Korak saves a girl and wins a friend
The day after the apes drive him away, Korak creeps toward a village with his spear raised to kill the first person he sees.
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An army of baboons and a bungalow home
Korak lies wounded while Akut hunts for him, then tracks Meriem to Kovudoo's village.
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What a father hands down to his son
Burroughs builds the whole book on one question: what passes from father to son?
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Who is the savage in this story
The book keeps asking who really deserves the word savage.
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How the story is told and why it keeps moving
Burroughs tells the tale in a lively voice that speaks to the reader directly.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Korak (Jack Clayton) The gray-eyed son of Tarzan, he flees to the jungle as a boy and grows into a fighter who longs for a friend.
- Akut A huge ape who crossed the sea to find Tarzan, then teaches Tarzan's son the laws of the forest.
- Meriem A beaten child in an Arab village who grows into a brave jungle girl and wants only love and freedom.
- John Clayton, Lord Greystoke Once Tarzan of the Apes, he now lives in London and wants to guide his son.
- Lady Greystoke (Jane) Jack's mother, who fears the jungle will claim her son and tries to keep it from him.
- Alexis Paulvitch A ruined Russian who blames Tarzan for all his misery and plots revenge through the boy.
- The Sheik The cruel desert chief who keeps Meriem as his daughter and values revenge above gold.
- The Hon. Morison Baynes A proud, wealthy young Englishman who admires Meriem but thinks her beneath him.
How it ends (spoiler)
Bwana, the stranger who saved Meriem, is Tarzan himself. He stops the charging elephant Tantor and frees Korak, and the family is reunited in joy. The Hon. Morison Baynes survives his ordeal, having redeemed himself. Korak and Meriem marry and sail for England. There General Armand Jacot comes seeking his lost daughter, recognizes Meriem from an old photograph, and she remembers him. She is his Jeanne, and a princess in her own right.
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What is The Son of Tarzan about?
It follows Jack Clayton, the son of Tarzan and Jane, who runs away from London with the ape Akut and grows up in the African jungle as Korak. He meets a girl named Meriem, and adventure, danger and love follow.
Who is Korak in The Son of Tarzan?
Korak is the jungle name Akut gives to Jack Clayton. It means Killer in the ape language. Jack adopts it after he leaves civilization and begins to live among apes, hunting and fighting by his father's skills.
Do you need to read Tarzan of the Apes first?
Not strictly. The book explains Tarzan's early life when he tells his son, and it introduces its own cast. Readers learn that Akut is Tarzan's old friend and that the Russian Paulvitch is his old enemy.
Who is Meriem and what is Geeka?
Meriem is a girl raised in an Arab village by a cruel man called The Sheik. Geeka is her doll, with an ivory head and a rat-skin body. She confides in it and carries it into the jungle.
Is The Son of Tarzan easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that the plot moves fast. Chapters are short, the style is lively and direct, and the narrator often speaks to the reader. Many chapters end on a cliffhanger, which keeps the pages turning.
Verwijs naar deze uitgave
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Son of Tarzan. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-son-of-tarzan.
Burroughs, E. R. (2026). The son of Tarzan. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-son-of-tarzan (Original work published 1915)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. The Son of Tarzan. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-son-of-tarzan.
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