How you explore The Jungle Book on Literah
The cast, the places, the objects, the plot, and the author’s own words — each one a card in a feed you scroll on your phone. One at a time, at your pace, in any order you like.
- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 74 characters, 23 places, 19 objects and 7 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 63 passages of The Jungle Book sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as Rudyard Kipling wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on Rudyard Kipling instead.
The Jungle Book feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of The Jungle Book
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- Mowgli's Brothers
- Kaa's Hunting
- Tiger! Tiger!
- The White Seal
- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
- Toomai of the Elephants
- Her Majesty's Servants
The author's pen in The Jungle Book
The passages themselves, Rudyard Kipling's own words, as Literah maps it.
- The Hour of Pride and Powerch. 1
- The Man Cubch. 1
- Raksha Claims The Man Cubch. 1
- Mowgli In The Circlech. 1
- Baloo Speaks for the Cubch. 1
- The Cub Can Be Boughtch. 1
- Learning the Junglech. 1
- Bagheera Born Among Mench. 1
- Get the Red Flowerch. 1
- Shere Khan Flatters the Packch. 1
- Akela's Last Bargainch. 1
- Mowgli Renounces the Packch. 1
- Mowgli's First Tearsch. 1
- As the Wolf Pack Yelledch. 2
- The Master Wordsch. 3
- Forbidden Monkey Peoplech. 3
- The Monkey People's Flatterych. 3
- Mowgli Through The Treetopsch. 3
- Mowgli Shows Offch. 3
- Let Us Go To Kaach. 3
The characters of The Jungle Book
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Mowglimajor
- Bagheeramajor
- Baloomajor
- Shere Khanmajor
- Kotickmajor
- Rikki-tikki-tavimajor
- Little Toomaimajor
- Kala Nagmajor
- Raksha / Mother Wolfsupporting
- Father Wolfsupporting
- Akelasupporting
- Kaasupporting
- Tabaquisupporting
- Gray Brothersupporting
- Messuasupporting
- Buldeosupporting
The locations in The Jungle Book
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- Seeonee Junglejungle
- Wolf Cavecave
- Council Rockhilltop council ground
- Waingunga River Regionriver region
- Human Villagevillage
- Messua’s Huthut
- Grazing Grounds and Ravinepasture and ravine
- Cold Lairsruined city
- Tree-Roadforest canopy
- Novastoshnah / North East Pointseal rookery
- Killing Groundsslaughter ground
- Sea Cow’s Tunnel and the Hidden Beachessea passage and refuge beach
- Bering Seasea
- Segowlee Bungalowbungalow
The core concepts in The Jungle Book
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Belonging is made by law, love, and recognition, and those can conflict
- Law protects the vulnerable only when memory and courage uphold it
- Human power is both tool and exile
- Speech can preserve law or corrupt society
- Society without memory becomes dangerous
- Seeing what others ignore creates responsibility
- Courage is attention under pressure
- Protection has a price
- Service, command, and freedom are morally unstable
- Songs turn danger into inherited memory
The objects of note in The Jungle Book
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- Red Flower / Fire
- Fire-pot
- Bull that Bought Mowgli
- Bagheera’s Collar Mark / Broken Lock
- Master Words
- Shere Khan’s Hide
- Village Knife
- Rama and the Buffalo Herd
- Kotick’s White Coat
- Sealers’ Clubs
- Nag’s Water Jar
- Cobra Eggs
- Teddy’s Father’s Shotgun / Big Man’s Stick
- Darzee’s Nest
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