1. The Jungle
The Jungle Book is a book that can be looked at by many different views. Personally speaking I look at the Jungle Book as a book that was made with more meaning than most people think. The Jungle Book is more than just about some kid that is stuck in the jungle with animal friends that talk, it is about learning to cope with a situation and more importantly about friendship. Rudyard Kipling's character design in the story is one of the main ways that the story is so popular and widely read. Every one of his characters develops into a more mature person, just the perspective of the character development is astounding. .
Many people could say, "The Jungle Book was not that great of a novel and it was made for children." Their criticisms are their own, because my two cents differ quite a bit from their views. If I could pick one novel that influenced hundreds upon hundreds of authors in our century, it would be The Jungle Book. This novel was created and wrote by a genius, a genius that is gracing us all by letting us read his exquisitely written work. Rudyard Kipling is by far one of the most original authors to ever write. He is ranked towards the top of all authors by myself, and many other critics out there. If you think that he is an okay author, or even below that, you are mistaken. .
There are always those critics out there that seem to try to find something wrong with something great. For instance one critic posted on a message board "Rudyard Kipling's style of writing is a way of the past, it may have been good then, but this is not then, it is 2000." So many people may post different opinions about a different thing, but the majority of criticisms about The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling, are positive. Another message posted about Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, which agrees more with what I think, said "Rudyard Kipling is an awesome author, The Jungle Book series still lives on today, in movies and television shows, it is a work of art that will be passed down for years to come"(Geocities).
The Packingtown Beef trust was part of the capitalist jungle. ... Purpose of the research: I have chosen this book The jungle by Upton Sinclair because I think that working class people of the 1990's..still live in a capitalistic jungle. Although this book was written at the turn of the century, it still reflects the times in which we live. ... I have learnt from the book The Jungle that business is a dog eat dog world. ... brutality, the strike was settled, and a book resulted King Coal, (1917). ...
The soldiers carried loneliness, uncertainty of the truth of war, and the heavy burden of physical and emotion weight; Tim O'Brien uses war related imagery to symbolize the vim of storytelling in his book "The Things They Carried". ... They needed to be saved from the god forsaken war and country that was out to kill them with each and every step they took into the jungle. ... The feelings of uncertainty with every twelve inches in the jungle represent the moral in the story. ... In Short Story Criticism. ... Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. ...
Thomas More, in his 1518 book Utopia, originally conceived the term, although not the actual concept - many philosophers would say that the concept of utopia is something inherent to the human psyche. ... However, we can also regard utopia as more than just a concept, it is also a literary genre, the same as dystopia. ... Fahrenheit 451 is a clear reaction to the McCarthy era in which it was written; the near future book burning society is a logical projection of the world of 1950's middle class America. ... Its main literary expression was, like most forms of utopia/dystopia, to be f...
The beginning chapter sets up the problems of the entire novel with great efficiency. It tells us what is going on at present with Obi's trial and backtracks to the past in order to reveal what kind of man Obi is: an educated man, a young man who is Nigerian but who has studied in England. Most significantly, this first chapter juxtaposes the two extreme cultures that are at work in the novel as a result of colonialism. The scene between Mr. Green and the British Councilman, and the scene among the Umuofia Progressive Union are juxtaposed against each other to illustrate their differen...