Luke's+Summary+of+The+Jungle+Book

In the book The Jungle Book, retold by Rudyard Kipling, a black haired Indian boy is stolen by a tiger, lost, then found by wolves which raise him with love. The boy's name is Mowgli and all he wants to do is play with his pack brothers. Old Baloo, the wolf pack's teacher bear wants to teach Mowgli the law of the jungle. When Mowgli gets upset with Baloo and runs away from him Bagheera, a black panther tries to calm him down. Then the bandar-long, monkeys, kidnap Mowgli to make him their king. Baloo and Bagheera get help from Kaa, a rock snake wich the bandar-long fear. Bagheera, Balooo, and Kaa head off to an ancient temple to rescue Mowgli. They have a war in which it ends by Kaa appearing and scaring all the monkeys into stone. He orders them to bring Mowgli back to his forst home.

A couple of years later the wolf council starts to fear Mowgli because he is a human. They order him to go live with the humans in a small village just outside of the jungle and live there forever. When he leaves the jungle his wolf father gets outraged and withdraws from the council. Mowgli is found by his actual mother, but neither of them ever know it. They give him a bed, which he thinks is a bear trap. He learnes their language and customs quickly, but some of the customs he laughs at. What he can't believe that they think the tiger that took him away was infested by a spirit, because he limped.

Eventually they hears how he snickers at his tales and make him herd cows and buffalo.He starts seeing and talking to his wolf brother who tells him useful information. One day his wolf brother tells him that the tiger who took him away, Shere Khan wants to kill him. Mowgli spends his extra time trying to find out how to kill Shere Khan. When his wolf brother brings Mowgli his wolf father to help him kill Shere Khan, who is now waiting in a ditch to kill Mowgli. Mowgli gets his wolf family to herd the cows into to groups. When this is done Mowgli takes one group of the cows and herds them onto Shere Khan crushing his body completely. When Mowgli returns to the village he is attacked because one of the shamans saw him talking to a wolf. Mowgli is forced to return to the forest and hunt alone. //**That is the end of Mowgli's amazing story.**//