Reading Log

this week for my reading post, i had read the jungle book. i had rememebrred this movie from being a child, and decided to read it as if the intelectual level may have increased within the words. the book started off just as the movies, and introduces our tarzan like character. the concept that a child was raised by wolves and is taught life lessons from a bear seems completely rediculious, but gets the points of life across well. its as though the bear became more of a godlike figure in order to make a kid's life realistic or plausable to others. this creature taught the child what was needed in order to live or what could keep him alive out in the wilderness. it played the role of being a father to this kid, even though they could never really speak to each other. but that thought alone kind of makes this story depressing, you want the character to survive and live on even though his youth seems impossible to achieve. later on our main character in pushed, not into the wild, but into civilazation. he meets a girl, and meets the people who had apparently lived veery clsoe to him all of his life. it turns out though these people's intentions arent pure, and they plan to tear down parts of the jungle that house the animals that raised him. he becomes enraged and makes it his mission to save these creatures. he does so though, but only through the help of the animals and what theyve taught him, how to live. these infused "animal instincts" managed to save everything he knew, and the animals he called family. because a bear raised this man, his life was completely altered for the better. its as though tehe animal side of him got the better of him.